A 10.5" barrel or 11.5" barrel would still be a step up over the 4.25"- 4.7" barrels of most service-size pistols. An added FRT could come close to equating SMG performance. A binary trigger wouldn't raise too many eyebrows. Bear in mind this PPC has no forward assist (as if the original...
I love the way the Bersa and the Zastava can readily drill a target in tiny group. You can terminate a threat very quickly.
If you can find a Bersa Thunder .32, don't hesitate. Buy it and shoot it. It weighs 20 ounces. You'll be astonished to see how quickly you will be shooting tiny groups...
I also have a nickel-plated CZ-82 in .380, but it's heavier than either the Bersa Thunder .380 or Bersa Thunder .32. The .32 is more fun to shoot as well as less fatiguing.
The 7.65mm Browning still works. Shot placement is everything. My Zastava M70, Tanfoglio Titan II, and Walther PP are big enough to launch the 73-grain FMJ ammunition to speeds that will penetrate 22" in ballistic gelatin.
I failed to mention that my Zastava M70 is just as accurate and comes within a hair's breadth of shooting as well as the Colt's M1903. (But that's another story.) ;) While it may not have the aesthetics of Colt's M1903, it still shoots rings around a lot of "modern" pistols. (Take that, Beretta...
Yep, I have at least 5 .32 Automatics.
People sell them short, forgetting the fact that they were the primary "house gun" for thousands of men and women from 1899 through the 1960's. The Walther PP was very popular, as was the Colt 1903 and Savage 1907. I have a Tanfoglio Titan II as well as...
In Ian Flemings' (Albert Broccoli) film Dr. No, Bond was handed a Walther PP and was told that it was a PPK in 7.65 Browning.
Americans became power hungry and insisted that Bond was carrying a .380. WRONG! They shot the little pistols and learned the hard way that the originals were chambered...
This is the reason I like the Bersa Thunder .32 is that:
The pistol doesn't require a compensator,
It can put a whole bunch of deeply penetrating rounds in a small area posthaste,
Practicing with the little .32 does not fatigue you.
The little .32 has been doing a great job with its original...
The only problem I have with the PPK/ PPK/s is the pistol was originally engineered for the 7.65mm Browning. not the 9mm Kurz. This makes the little pistol prone to "slide bite". Thank you, no. The closest I'll ever get to the PPK is my slightly larger Bersa Thunder .380.
That said, I prefer to...