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Astra
Model 2000 Cub
Astra Pistol 2000 Cub .25 Auto Variant-2
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Gun Dimensions Width:No Data
Length:4.4-in Height:No Data
Barrel:2.25-in Weight:13-oz
Variant 2 of 2
Gun Rankings
  • Power Factor (50 grain bullet)39350
  • Recoil Factor (50 grain bullet)0.78 ft-lb
  • Total Capacity7 rounds
  • ConcealabilityExcellent
  • Defense Factor47%
Gun Specifications
Type:Pistol
Caliber:.25 Auto
Action:blowback operated semi-auto
Trigger:single-action (SA)
Safety:frame mounted thumb safety
Magazine:6-round
Frame:blued steel
Grip:black plastic
Sights:fixed blade and notch
Notes:
Manufacturer
Astra-Unceta y Cia SA
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About the Gun

The 2000 Cub is a vest-pocket single-stack single-action blowback pistol with an exposed hammer, serrated slide, and fixed blade-and-notch sights. A frame-mounted thumb safety also locks the slide, and a magazine safety is fitted. The magazine release is a button at the bottom of the left grip panel. Standard guns are blued steel with brown or black plastic grips.

Production

Production ran from 1956 through 1998.

Market value
Last updated: 9/9/2026

MSRP at production was around $75. Current used market value for examples in good to very good condition ranges $250–$400.

Cartridge Specifications
Cartridge: .25 Automatic
Alias: 6.35mm Browning
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Ballistics for This Gun
Selected Bullet Mass:50 grains
MV:787 ft/sec ME:69 ft-lbs
Analysis

Astra introduced the Model 2000 Cub in 1954 as an exposed-hammer successor to the hammerless Model 200 Firecat, the FN 1906-pattern vest-pocket pistol it had built since 1920. The Cub dropped the grip safety, added a magazine disconnect, and moved the magazine catch onto the left grip panel. .22 Short came first; .25 Auto followed two years later on the same frame. From the late 1950s Astra also built the design for Colt as the Junior. That U.S. contract, and most other American import of the size class, ended with the 1968 Gun Control Act, but Guernica kept the Cub in the catalog. By mid-1995 Astra had recorded about 140,150 in .22 Short and 236,241 in .25 Auto; limited assembly continued until the factory closed in 1998. A longer-barreled Camper and the later enlarged Model 7000 in .22 LR sat alongside it rather than replacing the short gun. Used Cubs are common on the pocket-pistol market. Plain Astra-marked examples trade below boxed high-condition guns and below the Colt-marked Juniors.

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From Russia with Love?
By Quaestor on 28 Jul 2022
In the1963 Bond film, SPECTRE agent Red Grant (Robert Shaw) carries a very small hammer-fired automatic in an ankle hoster which he uses to overpower 007. Most .25 ACP pistols have shrouded hammers, the Baby Browning, for example, or an abbreviated hammer like the DAO CZ Model 45. The Beretta Model 950 has a spurred hammer, but it also has the distinctive Beretta open-top slide which Grant's gun lacks. I believe the gun used in the film was an Astra Cub.