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None of these problems occur with the current Berettas. They feed JHPs. They don’t bite your hand. They’re accurate as hell, right up there with the Walther and the SIG, tied for braggin’ rights as “best of breed” among the .380 pistols past and present in terms of precision shooting potential.

While putting this chapter together, I took a Model 86 out to the backyard range with the only two types of .380 ammo I had in the house, both inexpensive “generic ball” loads. Remington-UMC easily kept all five shots in the head of an IPSC target at 25 yards, with a group measuring 3.05 inches. The best three of those bullet holes were in a cluster spanning only 1.4 inches center-to-center. CCI Speer’s aluminum-cased Blazer delivered a five-shot group of 3.20 inches, with the best four in 1.65 inches and the best three in 0.80 of an inch. Bearing in mind the proven rule of thumb that the best three of five shots handheld from a bench rest will come awfully close to what the same gun/cartridge combination will do for all five shots from a machine rest, that’s damned impressive pistol performance.