DA I am a firm believer that .22lr is more effective that .25auto and it sounds like .32auto is also a dud... but its mostly about bbl length. short bbls dont produce any velocity. My home defense and RV defense has been 1858 army pietta this summer. with 25g of T7 and an 8" bbl it hits the steel plenty hard. I have been shooting it dry once a week and it has been very reliable with only one slow ignition all summer but it still went bang. Yesterday i realized i had not shot it in 3 weeks so I took care of that business. my first two trigger pulls were misfires with the cap not going off. the other four went bang. recapped and those cylinders fired perfectly. I don't know if it was bad caps or oil contamination? last year I had a .357 ruger misfire on a cylinder that had been loaded for over a year and heavily oiled. Obviously oil contamination in that case.