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Endnotes

(1)“Beretta’s Model 87 Target Is A Rimfire Masterpiece,” by David M. Fortier, 2005 Shooting Times Handgun Buyers’ Guide, Peoria, IL: Primedia.

(2)Ibid., P. 49.

The Beretta Tomcat .32

Colt named many of their revolvers after dangerous snakes: The Cobra, the Python, the Diamondback, the Viper, the Anaconda. Few arms companies have named their guns for dangerous cats, though a copy of the Winchester 1892 carbine that was long popular south of the border, usually in caliber .44-40, was given the name “El Tigre.” Beretta, however, has an affinity for feline nomenclature.

I am not sure why, after calling their little .22 LR pocket pistol the Bobcat, they would choose to name the distinctly more powerful .32 ACP the Tomcat. Not that I don’t think the name is appropriate. You see, the .32 caliber is a pussycat in every respect, but, comparatively, naming a .32 after felis domesticus and the .22 after a wildcat seems a bit over-reaching insofar as the latter. It’s a little like naming your goldfish “Moby Dick.”