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$150 380's
Picked up the Bersa today; it came with 400 rds of factory and reloads along with a spare mag. The S&W BG came home a couple weeks ago with spare mag and box/paperwork. The only thing wrong with it were dead batteries. I'm gonna have to stop stopping by the lgs on the way home.
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09-18-2019, 07:19 PM
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I like the way the bersa looks. Please let us know how it shoots.
I have a bersa 22. It jams.
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09-18-2019, 07:42 PM
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Nice deal on the bersa. Those guns are tough to beat for the money.
Also, I used to have a bersa 22 and it would give me fits and jam some of the time and it would run like a top other times.....until I realized that I was putting upward pressure (pinky tucked under base plate, big hands, small gun) on the magazine which was causing it to travel just a tiny bit further up the magazine well and put extra drag on the slide. Once I corrected my grip and only used high velocity ammo it ran like a top all of the time.
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09-18-2019, 07:46 PM
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I had an older model Bersa some years ago, for the price I paid it was a good handgun. Never had an issue with it! Kind of sorry I sold it but someone I knew needed an affordable handgun and I sold it to them.
Good luck with it!
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09-18-2019, 07:56 PM
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I have the Bersa 380CC - looks just like yours with a semi-bobbed hammer , finger-grooved frame & grips, and a shortened beavertail. I's basically been "de-horned" - the "CC" stands for Concealed Carry. They are a great little gun, and a hard one to beat for value.
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09-18-2019, 08:31 PM
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My Bersa Thunderer has been 100% with all .380 acp ammo I have run through it...including my reloads.
I think you will enjoy it........
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09-18-2019, 08:41 PM
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I have had this old one for 22 yrs. Steel. Heavy. Always works.
I've lent it to students over the years.
I have a newer one with alloy frame. Really underrated.
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09-18-2019, 09:45 PM
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Must not give into this 380 "fad".
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09-18-2019, 11:47 PM
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It's been close to 10 years ago now, but a friend bought a .380 Bersa. He gave it to me to take to my range and test it out a little to see what ammo performed the best in it. As I remember I fired a couple of magazines full each of maybe five or six different factory loads I had available, along with some of my .380 handloads. The Bersa functioned 100% with every load.
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09-19-2019, 08:21 AM
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I had a Bersa 22 all steel. Could never shoot it accurately and eventually sold it back to the original owner. Blowback gun with fixed barrel, why it wouldn't group for me I haven't a clue.
I am a fan of "PPK inspired styling". I went to 9 mm though with the R51.
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09-19-2019, 08:57 AM
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I have a Bersa Thunder 22 and it's a great little gun and I prefer it for a woods pistol over my Smith 63 and 34. Very accurate smooth, light DA trigger and great ergonomics. I feed it cheap CCI Blazers and it's 100% reliable but it will jam constantly on Federal Auto Match, Remington Yellow Jackets or any of the weaker ammo. That all steel slide is heavy and it needs powerful ammo to push it.
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09-19-2019, 09:15 AM
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Wife carried a Bersa 380 for a couple of years. She liked it so much I bought her a 22 for practice. Then she shot a G43 and that was all she wrote! She made me get her one for her nightstand, as well as EDC and then a G17 for when she walks the dogs in the early morning.
I won't say the Bersas worked perfectly but I don't remember any problems once we got the right ammo for the 22.
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Some time back I took my wife to the range (she's not normally a shooter), along with a selection of handguns to see what one she might like as "hers". She tried revolvers, no, S&W M&P 9, maybe, but slide difficult to operate. I gave her the Bersa Thunderer and she had no problem with the slide, thought the trigger was much better than any other gun, and shot reasonable groups right away. That's her gun now.
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I had an older model Bersa some years ago, for the price I paid it was a good handgun. Never had an issue with it! Kind of sorry I sold it but someone I knew needed an affordable handgun and I sold it to them.
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I did that with an older model Bersa, too. It was dumb! I traded it and some cash for a 2" Model 10 for a gift for my twin brother who lives in the Nogunland of New Jersey. He never got his permit and the years went by and that gun became part of my personal S&W collection. I'm like, "Bro, fuggedaboudid, yoo hadjer chance!"
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09-19-2019, 03:39 PM
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In Argentina we all started shooting with a .22 BERSA, you have to try different ammunition until you find the one that best suits the weapon, the price I pay for your BERSA is the same as in my country.
I think you will be satisfied with it.
Sorry if my text is not very clear, I do not speak English and I am using a translator.
Thank you.
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I have had a Bersa Thunder duo-tone for 19 years. It is a good shooter and has served me well.
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At one time, about 30-35 years ago, I had an Iver Johnson knockoff of a PPK in .22 LR. I think it was made somewhere in Arkansas. I don't remember much about it, except I think it had an alloy frame. I didn't have any problems but I sold it fairly soon after I bought it, to one of my employees whose wife was getting harassed and stalked by some other guy and she wanted to have a gun handy. The IJ filled the bill.
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09-19-2019, 05:07 PM
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I'll bet this is a picture of it. I've had it 35 years since new. Cute as a button.
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Oops. I forgot the larger PPK style.
I think that IJ/Erma/American Arms made virtually the same larger model. I've had this one since '81. Not as small, but exactly the same size as a Walther.
Mine shows import marks. I wonder how it got past ATF since it's the same size as the PPK.
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I have one of those little TP22 Iver Johnsons! Fun little thing, and yeah, they are cute. Like 2/3 scale PPK.
I also have the .25acp version - the TP25. Same frame & slide, just a different barrel and magazine.
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"I'm gonna have to stop stopping by the lgs on the way home."
I have been saying something similar about AIM Surplus. I need to stop getting their email notices. Picked up 2 Berettas and a S&W M64 in the last two months.
We can stop any time we want to, right?
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