Difference between BDA and Beretta 85 series ?

[Prof. Peabody]

I've been reading the posts on .380's, and the Browning BDA seems to come up a lot. It looks an awful lot like my Beretta (minus the trademark open slide). What gives? I mean...They look almost exactly alike!

 

[Lvl21nerd]

i believe the Browning BDA was/is produced through Beretta, for Browning.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Beretta built the BDA for FN (browning-except for the license only stuff in the US)
it's the same basically, actually if you look at a bda, its all there except for the Beretta rollmark and the grips

 

[9mmepiphany]

The Browning .380 BDA is the Beretta 84 with a different slide (enclosed barrel and smaller ejection port) and a different location of the safety (Beretta on the frame like a 1911, Browning on the Slide like a S&W)

 

[Smaug]

...and to add to what 9mmepiphany said, the 84 is the double stack, while the 85 is the single.

The 85 is the preferable one, IMHO.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

A comparison.

 

[Prof. Peabody]

Thanks for all the info guys. Especially the comparison photo. I knew there had to be some connection between the two...they are just too similar.

 

[rellascout]

Beretta 85 series

IIRC the 85 series is a single stack gun. It only holds 8+1 the BDA is 13+1.

 

[9mmepiphany]

Peter M. Eick thanks for the pictures.

I knew about the hammer and the angled dustcover, but had forgotten about the reshaped tang