has anybody ever herd of a sportowy pistol

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i got an odd one here! my uncle got this pistol 15/20 years ago in a trade and it has only been fired 3 times since because it came with 3 little weird (adapters) that hold 22lr rounds and then he lost the adapters!!
the pistol it self looks to me like a browning 9mm copy
but it has a 22 barrel but the mag still takes full sized rounds
but we dont know what that is, it looks to me like 9mm
so you would take a 22lr round and slide it inside a aluminum adapter put the adapter in the mag and chamber the adapter fire the 22lr round and eject the adapter. not a very good designe unless you got a lot of these adapters around.
so has anybody ever herd of something like this before
we could really use some help on this
 
Hello! I guess from word "sportowy" it was made in Poland. I have seen one couple years ago but it is difficult to say without foto. It was polish copy of russian TT with .22 inserts .
 
Yes, Polish training pistol based on the Tokarev, uses adapters that look not unlike 7.62x25 rounds to carry .22lr cartridges. The adapter acts like a floating chamber, which facilitates function. Century Arms imported them. Nicely made and finished, but perhaps not too practical because of the need for the adapters, which will surely find long grass, etc, etc.
 
Sportowy Pistol

I have one of the 22's Sportowy Pistols

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Try an ad. in the EE. But don't get your hopes up. AFAIK, the adapters were only sold in the same time frame as the pistols. The pistol was packed with a number of them, there were extras available at the time, but I don't think there was ever an overabundance of them. Anyone with a pistol isn't going to want to reduce the number that they have. Good luck.
 
I am sure they were originally made in .22.
Incidentally, the adapters aren't aluminum. They react to a magnet.
 
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I thought they were aluminum since they don't seem to weigh much. I only shot my gun once or twice to try it. I'll have to dig them out an look at them again.
 
Sportowy Pistol Inserts

The inserts are a combination alloy with a steel insert. If you run a magnet over the thickest part of the insert its attraction is weak. But if you go to either end where the steal is exposed or covered with thinner alloys the magnet easily attaches itself to the insert. Give it a try. But then steel and aluminum don’t get along they corrode when they touch. Unless there is a substance that separates the two.
The aluminum or alloy isn't strong enough to stand the pressure of repeated rounds of 22 LR ammunition so it has to be reinforced. I have an AR7 carbine and the barrel has a steel insert and an alloy outer shell.
 
Yup. I got one, too. Just picked it up. I heard they were pretty rare so went for it.

Really? Those adapters are aluminim with a steel insert? I didn't know that. Nice to know. I know a machinist and was going to have him run a few off for me, but now I know it's not such a good idea.
 
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