MedWheeler
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FlSwampRat writes:
I bought mine used in 2008, when I "came back" to firearms as an interest, and decided to carry again (I had stopped when I left LE nearly two decades earlier.) I was replacing a PPK/S I'd carried on and off the job, and had subsequently sold. I tried repeatedly, using several techniques, to get the Bersa to malfunction. I mixed up old and new ammo in the mags, ammo of various bullet profiles, tried to "limp-wrist" it, and went long runs without cleaning it. Nothing worked. It's definitely a gun with some true military DNA in it, having evolved from models used by Argentinian officers.
I only stopped carrying it two years later when I came into a used PF9 for a hard-to-resist price. The Kel-Tec is easier to carry, though harder and less enjoyable to shoot. I still have the Bersa, which does admittedly lack resale desirability (so it's not likely to go anywhere anytime soon), and recently acquired a used .22LR version of it as well.
...my concealed carry piece is a Bersa Thunder .380. For an under $300 gun in store I think it's a great bargain.
I bought mine used in 2008, when I "came back" to firearms as an interest, and decided to carry again (I had stopped when I left LE nearly two decades earlier.) I was replacing a PPK/S I'd carried on and off the job, and had subsequently sold. I tried repeatedly, using several techniques, to get the Bersa to malfunction. I mixed up old and new ammo in the mags, ammo of various bullet profiles, tried to "limp-wrist" it, and went long runs without cleaning it. Nothing worked. It's definitely a gun with some true military DNA in it, having evolved from models used by Argentinian officers.
I only stopped carrying it two years later when I came into a used PF9 for a hard-to-resist price. The Kel-Tec is easier to carry, though harder and less enjoyable to shoot. I still have the Bersa, which does admittedly lack resale desirability (so it's not likely to go anywhere anytime soon), and recently acquired a used .22LR version of it as well.