Beretta 950 Jetfire question

1000rds a year is 19.23 rounds fired per week.

I think Beretta Jetfire can handle that.

I wouldn't worry about it. It aint that old of a gun and I bet you can find parts for it out there if need be.
 
Limnophile, beware of the Beretta Tomcat .32. those have had a deserved reputation for having the frame crack after normal use. also, they really aren't that small compared to their predecessors. they are nice guns but, the frame cracking issue has kept me away.
 
I got a Jetfire in 2003 for $175.

I could tell the Beretta was as well built as my Colt 1908s [$175 in 2000, $300 in 2014], so I started the work up [first shot] at double loads and worked up from there. The limit is extractor groove growth that jams the gun.

In contrast, I have a Vesta 25acp, I got for $50 in 2000.
It gets stopped in a work up with pierced primers.
The firing pin to firing pin hole fit is terrible.
 
JERRYS.,

"Limnophile, beware of the Beretta Tomcat .32. those have had a deserved reputation for having the frame crack after normal use. also, they really aren't that small compared to their predecessors. they are nice guns but, the frame cracking issue has kept me away."

See post #6 above.
 
Limnophile, Beretta has not done anything to strengthen their Tomcat frames. what they have done is to make the slide a lot bulkier in hopes that the heavier slide will not slam to and fro on the frame as hard as the lighter weight ones did. this too however has not eliminated the frame cracking. googling pix, youtube, etc can enlighten you to this. good luck.
 
No tomcats they won't take good performance ammo

The document included with new Tomcat 3032 pistols warns that the owner should never use +P (high-pressure) ammunition that exceeds 130 ft·lbf (176 J) muzzle energy.

Gee my KelTec 32 doesn't have a problem with hot 32 ammo and cost a lot less. :D

Never shot any one with my 950 But did draw it one night in a parking garage . Want to be bad guy forgot all about my money and made like the Road Runner out of the parking garage. Iam not sure the 25 bullet could have caught up with him :D He saw gun not caliber.
 
I bought one of the first Tomcat .32s. I like it, but it's not particularly a good gun for carry. Mine is the narrow slide version and it weighs around 16 ounces. The new ones will weigh more. The gun is "thick" and while it feels good in the hand, thick is not good for carry, either.
This is in addition to the cracking issue.
The Keltec P32 weighs 9 ounces and is so thin that you forget you're carrying it.
The K/T holds 8 rounds of high performance ammunition. It can take this ammunition because the gun is of the "locked breech" design. This design also absorbs quite a bit of recoil, making the P32 much easier to shoot than the much heavier Tomcat.
 
Limnophile, Beretta has not done anything to strengthen their Tomcat frames. what they have done is to make the slide a lot bulkier in hopes that the heavier slide will not slam to and fro on the frame as hard as the lighter weight ones did. this too however has not eliminated the frame cracking. googling pix, youtube, etc can enlighten you to this. good luck.
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JERRYS.,

The tales I've read on fora have reported that replacement Tomcats have been thicker in the frame area subject to cracking than the original specimens that cracked. I understand the upgraded version of the Tomcat is called the Wide Slide. I cannot find any reports of Wide Slides cracking, or of replacements reported to have beefed up frames cracking, either. The reports of cracked Tomcat frames seem to have tapered off nearly a decade ago, or seem to focus on used guns that are not Wide Slides.

I have a question in to Beretta customer service on the matter. I'll let you know what I find out. I'd prefer my pocket pistol have a safety, like all my other firearms. I suppose I could get a Beretta M21A in .25 Auto if the Tomcat is not reliable, but I'd prefer a .32 Auto. If I can forego a safety I could take Bill's suggestion and get a Kel-Tec. michael's note about Tomcats being limited to 130 ft·lb of muzzle energy concerns me, because I stock the hotter European .32 Auto ammo, because my CZ 83 was designed to use it.
 
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