Ok experts. Can you identify this pistol I bought?

Status
Not open for further replies.
J

jsalcedo

Member
Joined
Dec 31, 2002
Messages
3,683
I know nothing about this gun. I can't find it in any books, news groups
archives of any sort.

It is an single action Beretta 7.65 caliber

Adjustable rear sight

Marked PB 100 the import marks read Berben NY NY

The mag release is the grip screw (pretty cool)
the gun takes down almost exactly like a beretta 92

It is unfired.


Anyone have any info on this gun?
ber.png
 
Its a Beretta Model 100 (also called the Model 70). Pictures of it can be seen in the Standard Catalog of Firearms. (Mine is the 2001 edition.)

It comes in several different barrel lengths. The Blue Books shows values varying from $90 for poor shape to maybe $200 in excellent shape.
 
Walt beat me to it but heres a pic from the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Handguns
0f5a4601.jpg
[/IMG]
 
Last edited:
Thanks.

Any info on when the model 100 was produced?

I looked at the model 70's and they look identical except mine has a much longer barrel.
 
The Model 100 and the model 70 are the same gun. Probably marked differently depending on the country in which it was sold.

According to one of my reference books, the 100 designation was briefly used in the US during the '60s. You've got an unfired gun, first sold about 40 years ago.
 
I believe Beretta created it in response to the 1968 GCA. To be imported a pistol had to have so many BATF points, so the regular short barrel was replaced with a long one. I once used one while testing a piece of experimental bullet proof glass the Checker Cab Co. was interested in. Unexpectedly ball .32 ACP fired from this pistol would penetrate the glass, while cartridges such as .38 Special and .45 ACP wouldn’t.
 
I cant find anything on a model 100 but the 70T was produced from 1959 to about '85 or '89
The .22 version of the model 70 was marketed as model 101 so that would support the model 100/70 theory
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top