Beretta 21A .22 ammo?

[Darvell]

I bought a Beretta 21A Bobcat in .22 LR a few months ago and have not been
able to find a good ammunition for it except one, Remington Thunderbolts.
All other ammo that I've tried has jammed terribly. The Thunderbolts are
about 99.9% with maybe 400 rounds. I can live with .96 cents for a box of
Thunderbolts, but does anyone have good luck with other types in your 21A?

I've tried the bulk Wal-Mart ammo in Remington, Federal, the black box with
in X on it (Winchester maybe?), and Wildcats. Even CCI Stingers jam. I'm
very happy with the little gun and really love it and can live with just
buying Thunderbolts if I have to, but Wal-Mart here (the only place that I've
found them so far) usually only has 4 or so single boxes at a time and I
always buy them out. What else have you tried that works well?

Darvell

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[Doug t]

Darvell wrote:
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# I bought a Beretta 21A Bobcat in .22 LR a few months ago and have not been
# able to find a good ammunition for it except one, Remington Thunderbolts.
# All other ammo that I've tried has jammed terribly.
# Darvell
#
I only had trouble with the some of the truncated cone ammo. I don't
remember any problem with round nose ammo.
Hey P-32 owners look at Darvell's web site (not all at once :). Thanks
for the site.

Doug T

[Seafin 41]

Try Remington Viper. Even if it works, however, it will be more expensive than
Thunderbolts.

Regards,

Phil

[Bill Kenner]

In article <8bm3e1$eql$1...@xring.cs.umd.edu>, Darvell
<darve...@my-deja.com> wrote:

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Darvell,

I have such a Beretta and it has eaten everything that I've put through it.
I'd suggest that you have a gunsmith check it out before you restrict
yourself to only one brand of ammo. The prefragmented Quick Shock is an
excellant choice for defense.

Bill Kenner
Nashville, TN
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[Bcarmitage]

I have had two of these little pistols. Both liked Stingers. But the first one
needed a replacement magazine for 100% functioning. Try to get a Mec-gar mag if
you can. Hope this helps.

[sbre...@zdnetmail.com]

Hi,

My Inox 21 digests stingers no problem! As a matter of fact, I prefer
stingers for their impact energy :-)

Perhaps your magazine is the culprit, or the chamber itself may be
dirty/pitted and not allowing easy ejection?

On 26 Mar 2000 17:36:49 -0500, Darvell <darve...@my-deja.com>
wrote:

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[Alogusz]

#My Inox 21 digests stingers no problem!

what did you pay for your gun? How accurate is it? thanks :)

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[zem...@my-deja.com]

I bought a m 21 about 5 yrs ago. I took it to the deer camp for
plinking. I had bought a box of 100 plastic container of Winchester.
It would not fir once out of 6 rds. I kept the rounds thinking it was
the gun. I placed the same rds in a Ruger Mk II and got the same
results. It was a batch of bad ammo from Winchester. I sent it in to
Winchester and they sent me $10 and an apology.
Since then my 21 shotts everthing from the cheap stuff to the
stingers. I agree with other readers that your gun has a problem. May
be mag. Is it clean and lubed? Mine is so reliable I use it as a ccw
while traveling.
Good luck Mike e

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[JEB]

If the gun has a problem, send it back to Beretta. My new 21A could not fire
any ammunition without have 30% jams! I sent it back. They returned it with
a long list of things they had corrected, no charge. Now, it functions
flawlessly with any 22LR ammunition. No more misfires or jamming.

JEB

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[sandy....@worldnet.att.net]

I've had one for several years, done a lot of ammo testing. Here are
my results:
"I loaded the magazine to capacity (7) + 1 in the tip-up barrel for
each type of ammunition. I then, firing the 1st shot double action,
fired fast but methodically until the magazine was empty or until the
gun jammed, whichever happened first. Jams were cleared and then
firing continued until the end or the next jam. (6 Nov 95)
(Additional data added on 28.1.00)
AMMO Rounds Mags # of Pct.
Fired Fired Jams Jams
CCI Stinger HP 37 5 6 16.2%
Rem Target 8 1 0 0.0%
Win Wildcat 16 2 0 0.0%
Federal Lightning 24 3 3 12.5%
Federal GM 8 1 3 37.5%
Rem Thunderbolt 32 4 1 3.1%
Russian Junior 14 2 0 0.0%
CCI Mini Mag 24 3 1 4.1%
CCI Mini Mag +V 56 7 4 7.1%
CCI SGB 72 9 2 2.7%
PMC Zapper 88 11 13 14.8%
Gun very accurate with Zapper, but not fully reliable.
Cheers,
s.