Anyone carry tomcat with round chambered?

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slewis

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I was curious to know whether anyone carries a Beretta 3032 Tomcat with a round chambered? I've talked to Beretta, who doesn't recommend that any of their pistols be carried with a round chambered, regardless of the status of the safeties on the pistol has. Since the tomcat doesn't have the safety mechanisms that the larger models have, I was wondering if it is really safe to carry chambered.

Any advice is appreciated.
 
A better question, given the dismal record of the Tomcat in the reliability department, is 'does anyone carry a Tomcat?' period.

Mike
 
Everyone I know who carries a Tomcat (four people I can think of offhand, including myself occasionally) carries a round in the chamber, hammer in the intercept notch, safety on.

Don't mind Coronach; a Tomcat ran off with his high-school sweetheart and he's been bitter ever since. ;)

Personal experience with an individual gun counts for more than hearsay. Early Tomcats tended to suck; my early Tomcat works fine. Should I get rid of mine because other ones sucked? If your Tomcat runs fine without jamming and you don't dry-fire it, don't worry about it.


(PS: Most pocket guns don't have firing pin safeties because their small firing pins don't, as a rule, develop enough inertia from a three- or four-foot fall to set off primers.)
 
My Tomcat used to be a constant companion. And, yes, I did/do carry it with a round in the chamber. The only reason it is semi-retired is that I recently aquired an NAA Guardian .380. Much smaller, but actually seems to be a little heavier.
 
slewis, I believe Berettas attorneys make them put that recommendation in their manuals etc. They want to minimize their liability from any negligent discharge.

Look at it this way--Beretta put a lot of engineering into the tip-up barrel design to make it EASIER to put one in the pipe.

And if you carry for personal protection, it is hard to imagine a protection scenario where you will have an opportunity to tip up the barrel and drop one in before you have to use it.
 
Thanks for the replies. It took several replacements and trips back to Beretta to finally get a solid Tomcat, but the current one has now proved sufficiently reliable to carry (and it is very accurate).

I was just concerned about the lack of firing-pin safeties (although I have read that the Tomcat passed California's drop test, etc.), when carrying with one in the chamber. It is more reassuring to hear that others are doing this without incident.
 
It seems to me I have read that same statment with every auto I own no matter what the make. I agree with Dave R. I think it's a CYA legal thing.
 
I heard it has problems with it's aluminum frame cracking, hence the new titanium frame version, and that's the only type I'd get.
 
I heard it has problems with it's aluminum frame cracking, hence the new titanium frame version, and that's the only type I'd get.
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Any small, pocket-size alloy-frame pistol that fires a relatively potent cartridge for its' size is going to crack its' frame eventually. These things are meant to be small and light to carry, not to last for tens of thousands of rounds of plinking. I've seen P-230's and Pocketlites need new frames at 3,000 rounds.
 
Not personally, but thats the way it was designed to be carried...If not they wouldn't have put the effort into designing the tip up barrel. It would take something EXTREMELY unordinary for the DA trigger to be pulled un-deliberately.
 
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