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To find a Neos that “came back,” I had to “surf the net.” This particular customer didn’t post to beef Beretta, but to compliment them. He had found something wrong with his Neos, and Beretta had instantly made it right. He now had a Neos that worked perfectly.

Priced similarly to the Bobcat pocket pistol, itself an extraordinary good value, the Neos is an amazingly good buy. It’s in the price range of other polymer-frame plinkers, such as the Walther P22 and the Ruger 22/45.

I have friends who use the U22 Neos as entry-level bulls-eye target pistols in local league competition. They do OK with them. They tell me the guns never miss a lick, unlike some of the finicky target autos the heavy hitters use, which jam more frequently. When I was at Camp Perry this year, I saw flyers from one entrepreneurial individual who is apparently doing trigger jobs on Neos pistols and attempting to turn them into full-fledged bull’s-eye guns. I wish him the best.

I didn’t see any Neos pistols on the firing line at Camp Perry. One reason is that the heavy hitters there want handguns that can shoot 1.1-inch to 1.6-inch groups at 50 yards, their standard slow fire distance. Never mind the 25-yard line they use for timed and rapid fire, and gun writers use for bench rest testing most handguns. A primary reason you won’t see an out-of-the-box Neos in the hand of a High Master bull’s-eye shooter in competition is the trigger pull. It is in the 4-pound plus range. While this is not a bad thing by itself, it is a chore to manipulate when the gun itself weighs only 2 pounds with the 4.2-inch barrel, and 36 ounces with the 6-inch barrel.