Читать книгу Gun Digest Book of Beretta Pistols. Function | Accuracy | Performance онлайн
92 страница из 126
These guns also had magazine disconnector safeties, not a usual Beretta feature. This means that if the magazine has been removed from the gun and it has been left with a round in the chamber, if someone picks up the gun and pulls the trigger, the chambered cartridge will not discharge. Wilson lists this feature as “available on request; magazine safety on trigger mechanism when magazine extracted.”(3) However, I have never seen a Beretta .380 of this generation that didn’t have the magazine disconnector feature.
Unlike many .380s, the Beretta Cheetah has sights that are easy to see.
Beretta’s modern .380s offer good trigger reach.
The first of the 81 series was the actual Model 81, with a double-stack magazine in caliber .32 ACP (7.65 mm.) It was quickly joined by a twin in .380, the Model 84. Both remain in production. The Model 81, curiously, held 12 rounds in its magazine, while a magazine of the same dimension managed to contain 13 fatter cartridges for the Model 84. The .380 proved quite popular and remains so to this day. The Model 81 is seldom seen in this country. It was realized early on that a 13-shot .32, generating 125 foot pounds of energy per shot with 60-grain Silvertip jacketed hollow-points and 129 foot-pounds per shot with 71-grain full-metal-jacket ammo, would not sell well to Americans when for the same price they could get the identical gun as a 14-shot .380 generating 189 foot-pounds with 85-grain Silvertip JHP and 211 foot-pounds with 95-grain FMJ. It was a “do the math” thing. The relevant decision-makers on both sides of the water knew Yanks would take the .380 hands down over the .32 and chose not to bother bringing the latter to U.S. shores. They made the right decision.