Berretta 21a Bobcat

[MICHAEL T]

Have mine in my computer desk drawer loaded and ready .

 

[boatdreamer]

Just got back from the range where I did my second round of tests with my relatively new (about 400 rounds) SS Bobcat. 

1. MiniMags, which all my other autos love, follow a pattern: First shot cycles partway, leaving the slide about 1/4" shy of closing. I push this with my thumb, and the rest cycle perfectly. (This is with 7 in the magazine and one in the bbl.) I should have tried loading six in the mag and one in the barrel, but for some reason I didn't. 

2. Aguila SSS Sniper Subsonics, which regularly jam in my Bernardelli 60, feed perfectly. Two boxes (100 rounds) with not one misfeed. They *are* the dirtiest .22 round I've yet found, so there's probably a limit to how many you can fire.

3. CCI Stingers: I tried these after reading others say this was the perfect round for the Bobcat. Results? 100 rounds without a single FTF or FTE. I suspect the secret may be the plated case, which has a lower coefficient of friction than a plain brass case. Whatever the reason, I've found my load for this gun.

Glad you're enjoying your Bobcat so much. Mine has become tempermental about feeding and ejecting with most ammo, so I'm experimenting a bit. I like CCI's segmented hypervelocity in principle, but I've had a few jams. I think your analysis of Stingers is very logical, although I have had the rare jam with it, too. Aguila's Sniper Subsonic has two things going for it, lots of recoil momentum from the heavy 60 grain bullet, and a very short case to dispense with. I've had no jams with it, but wow are you right about it being dirty. Tonight I shot 24 rounds of CCI's mini mag hollow points through my Bobcat, and had no failures of any kind. That would suit me-it's high in quality and relatively cheap