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Originally Posted by Alk8944
What do you believe were other pistols in .380 with tip-up barrels? I Do not believe there are any, and searching for ".380 pistols with tip-up barrels" none were found except the Beretta Model 86! What is your basis for claiming that .380 is too powerful (Hot) for this basic design?
Just what are the "design issues" you claim the tip-up Beretta Model 86 has? Beretta has discontinued all of the 8x series of pistols of which only the Model 86 had a tip-up barrel. Obviously the reason was not the tip-up barrel feature because the other models did not have this feature.
As for Taurus I just did a search and the information found was that Taurus did not make any pistols with tip-up barrels except the models similar to the Beretta 21a!
What is your answer to all this?
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I was referring to the Beretta 86.
I've heard that the Beretta 86 didn't hold up well to a steady diet of .380 ACP. Granted, like most reports of .380s wearing out or breaking, it's entirely possible that these reports are coming from the same people who endorse the so-called +P loads offered by Buffalo Bore and the like, which obviously no firearm in .380 ACP is actually rated for being there's no such thing as an official +P loading for the cartridge.
Also, admittedly I may have been thinking of the Beretta 3032 Tomcat having issues with frames cracking.
As for Taurus, I thought that they had made a clone of the Beretta 86 that either wasn't ever imported into the US or never entered full production, but attempts to verify this with a simple Google Search failed to yield any results, so I'd just as soon say that I'm remembering wrong.
At any rate, relax... I was only responding based on things that I'd heard online.