Carbide(?) Tipped Pistol Bullets?

[Farmer Harv]

Need a little help from you fellows about a story I heard...

Apparently some higher ranking officers (Canadian? British? Commonwealth?) were issued small caliber (.25?) pistol in the World Wars, and these apparently were tipped or cored with carbide or something equally hard in order to improve penetration. And apparently they needed this extra penetration for when they committed suicide on failure.

I'd never heard anything like this before, and before I call BS I thought I'd better ask the people who have actually seen and used these firearms & ammo.

Any truth to this? Other thoughts?

TIA

 

[Canuck223]

Need a little help from you fellows about a story I heard...

Apparently some higher ranking officers (Canadian? British? Commonwealth?) were issued small caliber (.25?) pistol in the World Wars, and these apparently were tipped or cored with carbide or something equally hard in order to improve penetration. And apparently they needed this extra penetration for when they committed suicide on failure.

I'd never heard anything like this before, and before I call BS I thought I'd better ask the people who have actually seen and used these firearms & ammo.

Any truth to this? Other thoughts?

TIA

Thoughts?

Don't eat that Elmer!

Anyone thinking of suicide with a .25 doesn't truly want to die. I'd give you better odds of a quicker death using a nail clipper.

 

[carbonrod]

Thoughts?

Don't eat that Elmer!

Anyone thinking of suicide with a .25 doesn't truly want to die. I'd give you better odds of a quicker death using a nail clipper.

What calibre nail clipper?

 

[bdft]

I cannot see the British army issuing officers an extra pistol just to commit suicide with. They already had service revolvers. They weren't that keen on suicide anyway.

 

[Grouse Man]

That's a joke son, a JOKE! The carbide tip was needed to penetrate the extra thick skulls of the officers and general staff, don't you know. He was pulling your leg, boy.

 

[Farmer Harv]

Hmmm, he was quite adamant that not only did these rounds exist, but he'd even seen and fired them from the aforementioned small caliber pistol.

Perhaps he missed the point of the joke about the thick skulls (quite funny btw) and believed it to be true? Now that my curiosity is piqued I need to get one of these mystery rounds to have a close look at I guess.