Beretta 21a Bobcat review

Pilot:

Same with mine. 100% reliable with CCI Minimags and Stingers. Accurate for its size.
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wish I could say the same, but the more I shoot it with lot's of different ammo, and the less I clean it, it has improved greatly. I think they need to be warn in.
 
Somehow or other I have two of them swimming around in my safe. One is reliable with Mini-Mags and the other likes Velocitors. I haven't shot either of them in a couple years but I think they're kinda......cute. :o
 
I have no trouble pulling the slide to the rear.

I used to carry the Bobcat as a back up gun and have used the Bobcat to dispatch one pregnant rat (found out it was pregnant after I killed it) and one squirrel (it was raiding my garden).
 
grass range said:
Any ideas on why the slide is so difficult to pull to the rear?
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Lack of grasping surface and a stiff hammer spring. Try cocking the pistol first.

FWIW the pistol is designed to be cleared and/or reloaded by tipping the barrel up. There is no extractor, so racking the slide will NOT clear the chamber. In fact, racking the slide with a round in the chamber and a loaded magazine in the gun can cause a REALLY nasty jam, as the round from the mag may get firmly stuck behind the chambered round. The pistol may need to be disassembled to fix this! :(

Other than for cleaning, the only routine reason to ever manipulate the slide on these old Beretta tip-ups is for removal of ejected cases that get stuck between the breech and the barrel on firing, which, FWIW, is the most common malfunction I've experienced with my .25 ACP 950 Jetfire.

I realize that this makes the gun difficult to reload in a hurry if it's shot until empty, but this type of gun is arguably intended primarily as a last-ditch emergency contingency, a backup to a backup; it's NOT intended to get the user through a sustained firefight.

(I realize I'm responding to a necro thread, but I figured it's the easiest way to help the n00b. :D )
 
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I have 2 and they both are reliable with 22 standard or CCI mini mags. I bought because the Taurus copy was a POS 2 times to Taurus and never fixed
 
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