Original Bren Ten: shoot it or not?

[NIGHTLORD40K]

In the mean time:

https://www.google.com/search?q=bre...v_KzaAhXs6YMKHYQ8BxkQsAQIQQ&biw=1203&bih=1056

I have seen mentions of "Bren Ten" over the years, but never knew what it was or its claim to fame.

Googling the above seems to have answered both of those questions for me: it is a handgun that was used by one (both?) of the characters on the television show Miami Vice.

I have never seen even a single episode of Miami Vice, so ...

Never seen a single episode of Miami Vice?!!!!

Good Lord, that's like a Yank saying he's never seen an episode of Dr.Who or Red Dwarf!

Next thing he's going to say he's never seen Magnum, PI or Walker, Texas Ranger! It's heresy!

Seriously, though, as campy as all of them are, these shows speak to the American psyche and gun culture in general. I learned the basic operation of a 1911 at about age 8 watching Magnum.....

To the OP, since the Bren is loosely based on the CZ 75, I would think there would be some parts compatibility (or adaptability) with either the 75, 97, or the big Witness pistols. Food for thought.

I say shoot that bad boy!

 

[Dragonfly]

Thanks for the update. How many magazines come with the deal?

Just one...but for a pistol that will be a casual shooter I'm OK with that.

 

[stchman]

Don Johnson, as Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, carried a Bren Ten for the first 3 (or 4) seasons, and then switched to a S&W. One of the best episodes is One Way Ticket where Sonny 'goes to see his therapist'... and takes it for a run on Hogan's Alley. It's pretty sweet.

The Bren Ten is on my Unobtanium List... very likely to stay there forever, unfulfilled.

Sonny Crockett actually used a Sig P220 in season 1. He only carried the Bren Ten in season 2. Season 3 he carried a S&W 645. In seasons 4-5 he used a S&W 4506. The Bren Ten and the Smiths look pretty similar.

 

[Dragonfly]

Sonny Crockett actually used a Sig P220 in season 1. He only carried the Bren Ten in season 2. Season 3 he carried a S&W 645. In seasons 4-5 he used a S&W 4506. The Bren Ten and the Smiths look pretty similar.

Close! He used a P220 in the pilot but for the rest of Season 1 he used the hard-chromed Bren Ten (and, as you noted, in Season 2 also).

 

[Dragonfly]

Picked it up today and am very pleased—the pistol’s in great shape with just a little bit of visible wear. The are some awsome extras, too. The original box (a little battered) manual and papers, a Dornaus & Dixon Bren Ten booklet, a very cool little 20 round box of original Norma ammo (not for shooting, though!), and the August 1984 Guns & Ammo, the exact magazine the originally kindled my interest. I’m very pleased and excited to try it out!

 

[kcofohio]

Dragonfly, that looks to be of a nice specimen! Congrats and enjoy!

 

[kBob]

My one experience with the Bren Ten was at the 83(?) shotshow in Atlanta. Picked up the shorty at their booth and asked if I could rack the slide. When I did so it cut the begeebers out of me with a sharp edge and I bled on it, the counter and the floor. I suggested they might want to only display finished guns. They gave me some Kleenex and an operators manual. I think the Operators manual got thrown out with the great gun paper purge of 2010 where in 14 magazine boxes of gun rags and such went to the recycle bins. When I mentioned to the D&D folks that their guns seemed like a CZ75, but bulker they assured me they were not that much bulkier......I then suggested they bring one out to the car so we could compare it to my CZ75 I had just imported on a Form 6a as a returning serviceman and they lost interest......never could figure out why they went with the crossbolt safety in the slide.

First Delta Elite I got hands on shed its safety/slide stop plunger tube shooting Norma ammo.

I did like Springfields Omega a lot though. Stahl built a slide unit that could handle 10mm quite well. Plus the concept of a 10mm/.38Super/.45ACP in a nice box appealed to my inner survivalist. Got me wondering even then if custom 9x19 and 7.62 TOK barrels might have been made IF the ejector could have handled such. Dopey me did not try dropping the Colt Conversion Unit I owned at the time on the Omega Frame to see if it would handle the .22LR unit and magazines. Deadlines and type setters that can not read your instructions cause great frustration and confusion and are not conducive to clear thinking outside of getting a product to the distributor!

A buddy carries a 10mm Glock in Montana around his mountain home after noticing bear scrapes on trees far higher than he could reach, he does NOT load down or use down loaded commercial loads for some reason.

-kBob