Looking for opinions on Bersa Firearms

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dasbulliwagen

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Just got my CCW and Im looking at Bersa. After some research I can find few if any bad reviews. I just want to make sure all is well with these, becasue I recently found out that my Beretta Tomcat 3032 is prone to frame cracking... went and looked and mine is cracked. Seems Beretta is not handling this issue very well, so Im gonna try to get it replaced by them, and then sell it, but only after I get another gun. I dont want to go through these problems again. I bought the Beretta in 1999 before I was internet literate, so research on something like that was all but impossible for me. Bersa seems to be very underrated, and very well priced. It seems like a no brainer to me, but some more opinions would be helpful. Thanks.
 
I've had one, Thunder .380 accurate, 100% reliable, concealable. It was VERY stiff out of the box and cycled the action and safety for an hour or so to get them smoothed out.

It hurt my hand to fire though, something about the gun itself, the recoil impulse made every joint in my hand ache, so I couldn't fire more than 2-3 mags at a time at the range. Best $217 pistol I've had. Carrying in the small of my back I had to be careful not to lean against anything because I'd eject the mag.
 
Tons of great cc pistols out there...dont have experience with bersa

If you are looking for an economical choice that will disappear in a pair of shorts for summer cc dont rule out the ruger lcp
 
Beezil said:
Tons of great cc pistols out there...dont have experience with bersa

If you are looking for an economical choice that will disappear in a pair of shorts for summer cc dont rule out the ruger lcp
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That's what I carry now most of the time.

Find someone near you who has these weapons and try them out before buying. Buy what's comfortable and feels right.:cheers:
 
I've heard good things from a couple of guys I work with that own bersa's. Also they say that another good cc gun is the s&w bodyguard. It comes in a 380 with integrated laser and very compact. One good site they recommend for pricing is impactguns.com which has almost all models you could think of.
 
Cheap and reliable. Myself, I'm waiting for the new Springfield XD-s to start shipping for my new CC pistol.
 
A couple of friends of mine have Bersa Thunder 380s. Both weapons have acceptable accuracy and good reliability using most any round-nose ammunition, however, both exhibit a similar failure to feed malfunction using certain types of hollow-point ammunition. The nose of the bullet gets hung up at the small gap between the feed ramp on the frame and the barrel. Nothing a mild ramp polish won't fix, but something you'll want to check out if you want to use hollow-points.
(kind of funny, the one guy owned/shot his gun for well over a year with jacketed round nose bullets before the other bought his. Only noticed the problem when the 2nd gun wouldn't feed the hollow-point ammo bought for it, and he tried them in the first gun.)
 
Beezil said:
Tons of great cc pistols out there...dont have experience with bersa

If you are looking for an economical choice that will disappear in a pair of shorts for summer cc dont rule out the ruger lcp
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The LC9 isn't much bigger, and is also a great gun. Also, I'd trust a 9mm over a .380 for stopping power:

RugerLC9-RugerLCPcomparison-1.jpg
 
If you want stopping power in a small size and don't care about how much it hurts there's always the LCR 357 ;)
 
I owned a bersa .380 for 3 years. 100% reliable, 2-3" groups @ 15 yards offhand, about 1000 rounds down the pipe.

I'd buy another in a heartbeat if ammo weren't so hard to find most of time.

I'm onto 9mm now, and its my preference, but the bersa with a few x-tra mags wouldn't leave me feeling unarmed at all.
 
crazyjim said:
The LC9 isn't much bigger, and is also a great gun. Also, I'd trust a 9mm over a .380 for stopping power:

RugerLC9-RugerLCPcomparison-1.jpg
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The comparision pic might not impress most people about the size difference, but even what you showed is considerable.

there is enough difference there to either print or not print.

There are times when you absolutely CANNOT print. That's when the LCP will make for a HUGE difference even compared to the LC9 or a CDPII or EMP or whatever....

and for those cases, i'd rather have 6 rounds of .380 than none at all.

but agreed on stopping power.....no question. I'm a .40/.45 man myself.

I also carry a Kimber Solo. For those of you that know what those are, know they are impossible to get, or at least were in 2011. I got mine last summer, and it is a superb carry piece. Not a big fan of 9mm, but what the hell.
 
Beezil said:
I also carry a Kimber Solo. For those of you that know what those are, know they are impossible to get, or at least were in 2011.
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I had to look that one up,..

Pretty.

Not only that, but it's reasonably sized for a nine.(there's a first,..) 'Have to see if they have one for rent over at the gun club.
 
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