Baby Beretta at Work

[JayFramer]

Shot my Baby Beretta today:

Very accurate and reliable for it’s small 6,35mm cartridge. Holds 8 in the magazine plus 1 in the chamber for 9 rounds. Light single action trigger and low recoil means it can be emptied in about a second into the target. The 6,35x16mmSR isn’t the most potent, but I feel confident it is enough to break contact and escape. Many consider it the best 6,35mm ever made.

-Jay

 

[Dump1567]

I like it. I had one for awhile, but somehow while shooting the safety kept engaging on me? And I'm left handed. I need to get back out to the shops and look around for a small semi-auto in .22 or .25.

 

[Buick]

I am a fan. The model 21A BobCat is my favorite iteration of the design. The flip up barrel is a nice feature.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

I always liked little mouse guns for certain situations, like in a tuxedo or something. I did carry a Beretta 950 BS for almost 20 years, though - way before concealed carry was a thing. I called it my go anywhere gun. When I routinely carried it I also routinely dressed in a suit so I had the left side breast pocket on all of the coats removed and replaced with denim. The little beauty hid inside coats like that for years and years.

It did have one problem and I see I am not alone:

I like it. I had one for awhile, but somehow while shooting the safety kept engaging on me?

EXACTLY! I'm right handed and I thought it was my thumb but maybe not. I just kept that in my mind when I was carrying it.

I won't carry any of these until I have ensured that they will not jam or otherwise lock up but they are gorgeous little guns.

Beretta 950BS .25
CZ Duo .25 ACP
PSP Baby Browning replica .25 ACP

Well, I know that the CZ works well but since I can't hit anything with it (I have no idea where the bullets go except extremely up close and personal) I have not carried it in a very long time but, again, since I know that it works up close and personal I might change my mind if I ever wear a tuxedo again. It was manufactured in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944.

Then there is the Seecamp in .32 ACP

I still need to ensure that cutie will function before I carry it.

 

[Sgt911]

I have the .22 short version. It has never malfunctioned. My 21A has never not malfunctioned.

 

[Jimmyjones]

I have a few, love em. I've had a 950 in my pocket since the early 80's. Rule one, have a gun. The owner of my LGS is always giving me grief, 'don't shoot your eye out', LOL, I can put 9 rounds in someones eye at 5 yards.

Dump mentioned the safety coming on, I'm a righty, never had the issue but I have a couple of 950 B's, no safety, that's what I usually carry (as a bug)

 

[OLDSTER]

Love the little guys. The Seecamp in .25 and .32 ( like mine here), are a modern testament to them. This little .25 Ortgies ( ca. 1922) is amazingly accurate and dependable, showing superb early German engineering.

 

[JayFramer]

Very cool guns, guys.

Mine is like-new made in 2000 by Beretta USA. Came in a cute little blue box. The lighting on the gloss blue and dust makes it look like wear but in person it is flawless.

 

[Drm50]

Have had several 25s and 22s. Shot the 22 good bit shorts only and probably best shooter of this class I’ve had. Never shot 25 very much, in fact have never shot any 25 very much. When I got a quality 25 I would try it out. Saturday night specials I didn’t bother.

 

[italiansport]

I am a fan. The model 21A BobCat is my favorite iteration of the design. The flip up barrel is a nice feature.

I have a Bobcat in 22 LR great little reliable and accurate pistol.
Jim

 

[MCorps0311]

Nice looking little mouse gun.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Also like my little bitty boy.

 

[Fishinfool]

Nice gun Jay. I used to have one of those little Jet Fires in .25 acp as well. Bought it after being gifted a large amount of .25 acp ammo, and no gun to use them in. Particularly like the "pop up barrel" feature. Never jammed, and was pretty accurate. My only complaint was it was a little on the thick side (mostly the grips). Sold mine when the ammo ran out as I never really considered it as a serious carry gun, though the .25 acp certainly has a reputation as a killer in the right hands.

Larry

 

[squidsix]

I have three baby Beretta pistols. The 950 .25 is an inherited long time companion. I had it sewn into the headrest of a car in Germany for three years and luckily never needed it. Its a fine pistol.
I also keep two Bobcat .22LRs, one black and one stainless. I guess you could say I like Berettas.

 

[Gene L]

Had both the .22 Short and the .25 ACP. Back in the late 70s-early 80s, The National Rifleman did a penetration test using the Beretta platform in the .25 and the .22 LR. Since Beretta didn't make a .22 LR in that small pistol at the time, they took a .22 Short pistol and replaced the barrel with a .22 LR. They reported the .25 penetrated deeper. In addition they said the CF was more reliable, ignition-wise, which I've read since.

Me and my partner tested the .22 LR/.25 ACP later on in an Atlanta phone book. The LR penetrated quite a bit deeper, to my surprise, in repeated tests.

Here is the only .25 I've had since the 80s. All steel, reliable, probably heavier, sights in name only. Lucky Gunner did some ballistics on the .25, which are pretty sad. The .22 Short? Forget about it.

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[Pondoro]

James Bond used a Beretta 25 in his first few book appearances. I believe he stopped a speeding locomotive with it in one book (by shooting the driver).

 

[dr. mordo]

I had a DA/SA Bobcat .25 for a couple of years, it was my original CCW, and it's the one gun I definitely should not have sold. I'd love to find another for a fair price, but it's crazy the money they go for these days.

 

[Guevera]

To those not bothered by the massive blast and recoil of a big caliber gun like the .32 acp, I have been much impressed by a new Tennessee-made Beretta Tomcat. Soft-shooting and apparently quite reliable.

 

[sigp220.45]

I need to find another 950.

I had one when I was busy flunking out of USAF navigator training at Mather AFB. We lived in a dumpy apartment in beautiful Rancho Cordova, CA. Once I went for a run after dark and dropped the little Beretta in my sweat pants pocket, quite illegally. As I was plodding along a group of youths across the street abruptly changed direction to intercept me. I’m sure they were going to ask directions to the local dinner theater, so I pulled the little .25 and held it up, as if to say “the venue you seek is yonder”. The leader stopped, gave me a little salute, and they all continued on their way. No one was inconvenienced with the law or medical attention.

I gave that gun to a young FBI support employee in New Orleans a few years later. I hope she still has it.

 

[mk70ss]

My wife’s baby Beretta. Just a range toy.