Thank You. I think one of the cool things about The 'Net is that we can accumulate lots of opinions and perspective in a short amount of time - I try to make my input objective and help folks remember that few things in Life are "perfect" for everyone, everywhere, all the time, right out of the box and that there is usually more than one great solution to any one given problem.
I always find it "interesting" that folks many times tout or try to convince folks to do as they have done and buy the guns that fit them and work best for them without any regard to these concepts. There are many good/great firearms out there now and the Pico is one of them. It's overbuilt and like a small tank....unbelievably accurate, fit and finish beats most guns I have that cost 2X as much. Uber reliable...OK, the trigger is not fantastic but it does not matter as it makes the gun deliberate and safer and affects accuracy not at all. If one trains with a gun then getting used to the trigger takes about 200 rounds.
But recommending the gun without regard to the other persons hand size, experience, preferences, training options, hand strength, etc is irresponsible as is trashing the gun without paying attention to the same criteria. I was put off of Glocks for many years because "Haters" depicted them as ugly black plastic boxes and ignored the fact that they are awesome tools and equally put off of them by the "Fan Boyz" who declared and lived "Glock Perfection" ignoring the fact that *nothing* is or can be prefect especially when we are talking about firearms and matching the best tool to each individual. Of my favorite guns now Glocks are at the top of my list.
As is the Pico and I have done the range time and training and dry fire practice to gain that perspective. It's annoying to get input from folks (on any gun!) that know a guy who dated a girl whose best friends brother held one once at the LGS and hated it...it's ugly and the trigger sucks. He couldn't figure out how to drop the mag and couldn't operate the flush slide lock so, based on this opinion (which anyone has a right to) we decide the gun is a nightmare and not for anyone, ever, at any time, and we wonder what Beretta was thinking when they marketed and designed the gun.
Ya gotta shoot em and train with them to make these decisions and observations credible. I have bought, passed, and sold more guns than I now own because they didn't measure up *for me* and those guns include some top selling and highly touted pistols that the Generic Opinionist touts as "The Best" for everyone all the time.
Sorry for the rant. I wish more folks would strive for some degree of objectivity when helping others decide if certain guns are for them or not. It's OK to let some folks enjoy guns that are not "perfect" for us or for everyone, all the time, everywhere, right out of the box.
I'd bet my life on this gun...I'm shooting hot hand loads and getting just short of 1100 fps out of a 100 gr. bullet. I get 7 rounds out of a pocket sized gun that I can deploy from a pocket and get 4X in a 4" group in under 2 seconds while moving at 21'. The gun has never failed to fire save the fact that if came with a busted firing pin and I understand that Beretta recalled early pistols and fixed that...mine was one. Other than the fact I don't care for or use the mag with the pinky extension the gun *RoCkS!* *For Me* and has changed the way I carry and the tactic I deploy.
It might do that for others but to decide that you'll have to shoot one and make an investment in time and money - yer unlikely to figure out if it'll work for you by reading about it via 'Net Experts.
Just sayin'....
VooDoo