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One of the hottest pistol cartridges ever conceived was the 7.63×25 mm Mauser. Known as the .30 Mauser on the American shores, this was a bottlenecked round that drove an 87-grain bullet to more than 1,400 feet per second.
Used in the quite ugly C/96 Mauser pistol, known as the Broomhandle, this was a popular combo in Germany and other European locales.
The Chinese took to the gun and ammo big time in the early 20th century and became Mauser’s best single customer for the guns. Eventually, the Russians made a couple of very slight changes to the case dimensions and created the 7.65×25 mm Tokarev round, which was the standard Russian pistol and submachine gun cartridge for decades and even showed up in Vietnam in converted French MAT 49 submachine guns.
A bullet weighing that little is not a bone-crusher, but with velocity that high can produce some shocking tissue damage.
I recently shot a .357 Sig cartridge that clocked 1,404 (with a 124-grain bullet), now I am wondering what handloading with 100- or 110-grain bullets might deliver with the hot little Sig cartridge.