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Clark · March 18, 2013, 11:34 AM

Sharp dressed man,
I have emailed you the American Rifleman July 1885 article on 1934 Berettas.

Per my experiments on a WWII bring back I got at a gun show...
The chamber wall is 0.82" in the thinnest spots, and that is good for up to triple 380 loads, and then the chamber starts to expand.

My late uncle in WWII took a 1934 Beretta from an Italian Officer that was a prisoner of war. My cousin has since sanded it down and re blued it

But I had possession of that pistol for a few months in 1972.
I have always been impressed with that pistol.
I have a picture of my mother shooting it in the late 1940s.

March 18, 2013, 11:34 AM	#36
Clark Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 1999 Location: WA, the ever blue state Posts: 4,678	Sharp dressed man, I have emailed you the American Rifleman July 1885 article on 1934 Berettas. Per my experiments on a WWII bring back I got at a gun show... The chamber wall is 0.82" in the thinnest spots, and that is good for up to triple 380 loads, and then the chamber starts to expand. My late uncle in WWII took a 1934 Beretta from an Italian Officer that was a prisoner of war. My cousin has since sanded it down and re blued it But I had possession of that pistol for a few months in 1972. I have always been impressed with that pistol. I have a picture of my mother shooting it in the late 1940s. __________________ The word 'forum" does not mean "not criticizing books." "Ad hominem fallacy" is not the same as point by point criticism of books. If you bought the book, and believe it all, it may FEEL like an ad hominem attack, but you might strive to accept other points of view may exist. Are we a nation of competing ideas, or a nation of forced conformity of thought?