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Some perspective is in order, though. Officer survival authority Terry Campbell has called the little .22 and .25 automatics “nose guns,” on the theory that you can only survive with them if you stick them up your attacker’s nose before you pull the trigger. At 12 feet from the target, even with poor light and vision circumstances, this gun gave groups tight enough that you could not only put the bullet up the nose, you could pretty much select which nostril.

The accuracy is quite sufficient for tin cans, plastic soda bottles and the like. I personally see this as a close-range plinking gun for beginners. It’ll do fine there.

I can’t help but notice that muzzle flash was mild with the low-powered .22 Short, and this was especially true of the target load. The latter gave just enough flash signature to silhouette the sight picture in the dark, and give the shooter feedback on where the sights were when the shot broke.

I did not experience any malfunctions with any of the CCI .22 Short cartridges in the 950 BS. In the past, I had noted that the Minx in .22 Short didn’t even come close to the reliability of the Jetfire, the same gun in .25 ACP. I can’t recall ever seeing a Jetfire jam in any way. When my older daughter was a little girl we figured out that the Minx was jamming once every 29 shots. However, we were using a brand other than CCI. From now on, the CCI ammo will be my load of choice in the Beretta .22 Short pistol.