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However, I discovered that while the Beretta .32 was almost as fast out of the Ahern pocket holster as a snub .38 out of one of my usual pocket holsters when I was wearing loose trousers (i.e., BDUs), this changed in tight jeans. With the jeans it wasn’t nearly as fast. This isn’t a fault of Ahern’s holster design or anything unique to the Beretta Tomcat; rather, it’s a fact of life with tight-to-the-body carry of any semiautomatic pistol. An autoloader’s grip profile is flat on the sides and tight clothing or holsters hug it close to your body requiring your fingers to sort of claw in to get a drawing grasp. The rounded profile of a small revolver’s grip frame allows a much easier draw in these types of carry. The rounded edges of the revolver’s stocks sort of guide your hand quickly into position.

Accuracy? The first thing I saw with this little gun was that it shot way low. At 7 yards, while it would put a decent group together, that group would be some two or three inches below point of aim. The trigger pull didn’t help. While it improved with lubrication, the double-action pull never got better than mediocre and the single-action pull had “bad creep” with about four stopping points through an almost interminably long stroke that seemed to reach all the way back to the rear of the frame before the gun went off.