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The Beretta 21A Bobcat is a .22LR or .25 Auto semi-auto blowback pocket pistol built around a 2.9” barrel. This double-action/single-action (DA/SA) semi-automatic has a 7+1 capacity (7 in the magazine and one loaded directly in the chamber). The dimensions are ultra-compact, and tipping the scales at 11.5 ounces, the weight is leafy for a gun.
If it seems Beretta has been around eons, it’s because it has! In fact, started operations five centuries ago in 1526. That’s plenty of time to learn to make fascinating products.
And though this is a little thing, it has some fascinating, rich, features including a forward tip-up barrel that’s forged, solid steel bar-stock starting points for slides and machine forged aluminum frames. The smaller parts are generally high strength hardened steel. The tip-up barrel makes for easy loading and unloading of a round in the chamber or simply verifying if there is one already in it.
The 21A Bobcat has been in production several decades, but it seems timeless and destined to remain in production for quite a while. You have two different color schemes you can get it in. One is all matte black. The other is Inox barrel, slide and frame paired with matte black grips, fasteners, hammer, safeties and latches. Oh, and Inox is simply Italian for in-oxidizable, meaning corrosion resistant stainless-steel.
The gun has an inertia firing pin, a manual thumb safety that reveals a red warning dot when it’s in the “fire” mode, a very thin trigger guard and a magazine release that’s at the bottom of the grip. The barrel lever latch is above the trigger’s rear. Like other tactile action parts, it’s serrated. The lever releases the tip-up barrel, which tips up from a pivot point below the muzzle to reveal the chamber.
The gun is 4.9” overall. It has fixed open sights. The grip panels are diamond hatched and topped with the Beretta logo, and the gun comes standard with a single-stack steel 7-round magazine.
What might surprise some people is these Berettas are Made in USA instead of in the company’s Italian homeland.