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Eight rounds for the .32 versus five rounds for the .38 is a significant difference, until you factor in the potency per shot. The total deliverable muzzle energy of .38 Special +P, times five, dramatically exceeds that of a .32 ACP times eight, even when you allow for the 2-inch barrel of the .38 and the 2.4-inch barrel of the Tomcat.

Does a Beretta Tomcat .32 beat a Beretta Bobcat .25? Oh, my, yes! A .32 auto is by any standard about twice as powerful as a .25 auto. This must, of course, be kept in perspective. A .380 auto is half again more potent than a .32, while a .38 Special can deliver more than four times the raw power of a .25 and more than twice that of the best .32 auto round. So often, there is time for only one shot …

Field Testing the Tomcat

I bit the itty-bitty bullet, as it were, and carried the test Beretta Tomcat, as a backup gun for almost the whole month of April 1997. Just under two weeks of that were in the Pacific Northwest, a week was in the South, and the remainder was in Northern New England. I was legal to carry loaded and concealed in all three jurisdictions.