Any experience with Beretta Tomcat in .32?


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Still Learning
February 6, 2003, 06:52 PM
There is one for sale in the for sale forum. Been thinking about a pocket gun. What do you know about these?

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yesterdaysyouth
February 7, 2003, 08:41 AM
there were some problems with some of the first blue guns, the slides would crack or break or something..... so i've "heard", but each gun is different, so when you check it strip it, not much to it... pop the barrel and pull the slide back a little and it'll pop up on the front when you ride it forward, and it comes right off...

the stainless and titainimum used a wider heavier slide, make sure on the holster before you order one....

i've got about 100 rnds through mine with 0 problems, what kills me though is im more accurate with it, than my full size 1911's.... at 7 yards that is...

Kahr carrier
February 7, 2003, 09:02 AM
They shoot great and they also have the tip up barrel.:)

Mr Jody Hudson
February 7, 2003, 09:45 AM
I've had three because I like the design; the tip-up barrel... All three were reliable and HORRIBLY inaccurate for me. Sold them all in a matter of days. I stopped trying to get a good one. Accuracy is second only to reliability for me.

bCougar
February 7, 2003, 10:32 AM
I ran about 500 rounds through mine before I sold it. Never a jam. Nice gun, easy to conceal, but a horrible double action trigger pull. Single action pull was o.k., but all in all the gun never really fit me right.

mec
February 7, 2003, 10:34 AM
I got one of the first ones and checked it out with the then available loads. After the first three magazines, it functioned 100% and was accurate for me. The trigger pinches some people's finger and makes it hard to shoot the gun but you can get around that. A local guy got one and went kind of crazy shooting it thousands of times. Never had a problem. Somebody did put out a letter claiming that the platform was designed for a 900 round service life but this was later denied by Beretta. I was impressed with mine. It appeared in Guns Magazine titled "Building a Better Mousegun."

yesterdaysyouth
February 7, 2003, 10:39 AM
in the AH tatical annual there is a good article that compares the gurdian, tomcat, and p-32....

some good info if you're trying to choose a .32 mousegun...

10-Ring
February 7, 2003, 02:18 PM
The blue ones had sme problems. A cousin of mine has one and it seems fine, granted he doesn't shoot it much. Also, the DA trigger pull is horrific :what: the SA is okay. I know someone that had trigger work done to his and the DA/SA triggers are better.
If it's in really good shape & at a fair price, I'd buy it if I were in the market for one.

dairycreek
February 7, 2003, 06:13 PM
Don't know what to say exactly. Haven't shot it all that much but when I have, it has functioned perfectly. IMHO a "mouse gun" like this is meant to be carried some and shot a little. Good shooting;)

pokey074
February 8, 2003, 05:09 AM
couldn't help but chime in here

i have one of the new stainless "widebody" models. great little gun, i say. double action pull is nice and smooth, single action pull is a little heavier than i like but it's usable. very accurate for such a small gun. no malfunctions.

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