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I used to shoot on the high school rifle team, firing the basic Anschutz target rifles. No one at the time used hearing protection (this was back in 1976) so a little ringing in the ears was expected. All that changed when the US Army target team gave a shooting seminar. They highly recommended hearing protection, especially when most of our school ROTC ranges where walled with cinderblock. Took us a while to get used to the big muffs, but we appreciated the lack of ringing in our ears afterward.
Never had ringing never wore ear pro. Now I'm 46, I started shooting at 5, last year I shot my friends 350 and damn if my left ear didn't ring like a bugger and it seems I lost a little bit of hearing in that ear. Def wear your ear pro folks, no one escapes father time.
@Aya For sure, many schools had, and probably have, rifle ranges. I shot Anshutz .22 rifles like the OP mentioned there, mine was in the 1980s. Mine wasn't technically a high school team, it was a 4-H club, but we practiced and competed in many school ranges. Also, I visited Oregon State University around that time for a week in the summer and that campus had its own range as well, including a whole bunch of rifles you could use.
Thanks for making this video. Absolutely fantastic little quality made pistol. I have a couple of the new blued/walnut grip 21A 22LR Coverts and a stainless 22LR 21A. Super fun to shoot suppressed. Probably the funnest 22LR pistols I own. Very reliable with CCI ammo and reasonably accurate for such a small gun. My father purchased a 21A 22 LR in 1985 and I used it all through high school as an outdoorsman's pistol and plinker.......Update: I was at my LGS this weekend and scored a 21A Kale Slushy model. The dark green finish and G10 grips really make this little plinker standout!
LMAO. Just try the .25 ACP version. That is one of the most unreliable handguns I've ever fired. Just garbage no matter what brand of ammo it was fed. Jammed all the time and accuracy was no good unless you have the long barrel version.
@@tigerboy60, out of a barrel this short virtually everything is going to be subsonic. I doubt you could get a CCI Stinger to go super sonic out of such a short barrel.
i inherited a little bobcat years ago. i have plenty of other "real" pistols and almost sold the bobcat, almost that is until i took it out and tried it. Instantly changed my mind after the first couple of shots. It is sooo fun to shoot!!!!
Never sell your guns! The way i look at it is, the only thing they cost you is a little space to hang onto them. Save yourself regret and dollars in the future!
Just got back from the range with my dad! We both have 3032 tomcats. Love those little guys! 32acp has an awesome report. Quick little bark and no recoil. Great guns
Same here, I also love this kind of gun. Taurus Brazil had a very similar . 22 many years ago, discontinued due to the gun control policy at that time. Nice video, enjoyed it a lot!
One of the guns in my EDC rota is a .3032 Tomcat Covert. I picked up a DeSantis pocket holster for it and you don't even know it's there. A quality piece, for sure.
Plinkster! I love your videos! I have my grandfather's 1901 Marlin 1897 and dearly love my Beretta Minx in 22 short. I made a kit to shoot my Beretta Minx in 22 short, 22 lr, and 25 acp! I replaced the barrel pin with a 6-32 screw and by changing slides, barrels and mags I have 3 calibers in the same frame! Keep plinking!
Just bought one of these and have yet to shoot it, but absolutely love how it feels. I got the covert model, but put on some of the classic plastic grips to keep the wood ones nice and slim it down a bit. Can't wait to put a can on it.
my great grandpa bought a bobcat for my great grandma to purse carry on the day they came out (more or less). i inherited that bobcat, and its sitting in my safe now! it has the original rounds my great grandma carried in it, and the gun was fire maybe 20 times ever lol. i cleaned it when i got it just to clean it, and it didn't have a spec of carbon anywhere on it. its a snappy little gun! i haven't put rounds through it yet, but i love it. i imagine a LOT of bobcat owners inherited the .22 or the .25 model. My great grandpa also had a .25 model for himself, but he gave it to someone else. i love that he wanted the .25 instead of the .22 haha
😎 1st if you don't have a bobcat you are missing out. It's one of my most fun most accurate little 22s ever. People are amazed when you can hit a dinner plate at 100 yd with this little thing. Mine's a 1994 version with thousands of rounds through it and it eats 40g Thunderbolts like nobody's business. Imo I don't think you can find a better little 22 than this. I never leave home without mine. Great video.
Check out the PA hp22, I love mine 🤙 very excellent little firearm, feels like a mix between a Walther and a miniature .45 in design and eats anything I feed it accurately. I'd like to have a bobcat too, but it'll take a backseat to getting a nice PCC in 9mm or a micro conversion kit to stabilize my BRG elite for the same niche (hopefully they will be legal again soon enough)
I’d love to see Beretta make a threaded barrel .22lr Cheetah. Two models, one like the 80x version they just released and the other more traditional with wood grips.
That would be really cool, especially if it had a decent capacity mag to compete with the sig and taurus offerings. A 22 lr 80x decked out by Langdon would be the 22 to beat
I love my Bob Cat for all the reasons that he said in this Video! At my age of 79, I can no longer carry the big caliber guns like I use to but I do carry the 22LR / 22 magnum guns for self defense and I now own 5 handguns, which I practice with at my LGR every week and I feel very confident with any one of them!
Little .22s are a blast to shoot and most are fairly accurate. My little LCP II .22 is way more accurate than it should be. Enjoyed this video! Take care.
I've had a Bobcat for a few years. I took it to my buddy last year and had him coat it with KG Gunkote in OD with a FDE slide and barrel and flat black screws and hardware, did my Cold Steel Code 4 to match. They make nice carry companions
I picked up a used Beretta bobcat a few years ago. It's a great little plinker but it's pretty loud! It jams up every now and then but I still put it in my pocket sometimes when I go on long walks in case I run into a pack of rabid dogs or something lol.
Right on with the ear pro. I have a .22 revolver and I was shocked the first time that I shot it. I had it loaded with shorts as well. I expected it to be louder than a rifle, but, I didn't expect that. Lol
My bobcat was awesome I kept it as a secondary and she never jammed, never any feeding issues, extraction was perfect every time no matter how shitty the ammo. she was a fun little gun and I miss her.
Shot my 21A with some Stingers at the old indoor range when I was stationed at the Presidio of SF. Flames came out the front, and sides, and it was hitting the silhouette at 25 yds. Other shooters came over to check it out, as they could not believe that it was a .22lr. Have had only some issues with a Winchester load that the cases expand too much to eject. Planning on taking a variety of .22s to the range with a wide variety of rounds collected over the years to test out what they all like to eat. That should make for a fun day at the range. Son is looking forward to it.
I "learned to shoot" on one of these. Dad took us out to the range with them thinking it'd be easy to shoot, but as we know the long pull, short barrel and occasional jamming make it a chore for a little guy to shoot. I'd still take one today though!
Great little pocket rocket. Bought one new in the box and it wouldn't rum anything reliably at first. 400 rounds of cci minimags later and it functions %100 with most bulk high velocity 22lr.
I had a 21a it was fun to shoot, definitely a pocket pistol. I had to go thru several types of .22 ammo before I found one it liked. When I did it ran like a champ.
1990s, Beretta & Taurus (Taurus bought Beretta USA) have similar 22LR/Bobcat; Way back in the day, I cut the clip spring, stretched it, and added 1 more round to either pistol... worked great.
I have the generation before they added the threaded barrel. I collect a lot of tiny pocket pistols and this is by far the most reliable 22lr pocket pistols I’ve own. When 22 plinkster says this “feels” like a real fire arm, this thing is legit. The fit and finish feels top notch. I barely clean this too, I’ll go through 1000 rounds of CCi Mini Mags before it even starts showing signs of hiccups. Use CCI stingers and this thing shoots fireballs! Well worth the money.
Mine don't like Stingers. Stingers rapid fire really batters the gun. Had slide start to lift off causing jam. Snapped slide back on, switched to standard velocity no more hiccup.
@@evolutionjThere's enough slop for slide to partially ride up/off and jam on frame when battered. Slide on these guns remove by tipping barrel, grab pull back & up, no lock lever like a 92. To be fair I was torture testing the gun. It was dirty (6 boxes Remington), dry and shooting rapid fire strings of Stingers with three mags. CLP & normal velocity ammo it hasn't jammed since.
This video proves a point ive been making for 40 years. Not everyone needs sights to be proficient at hitting a target. Point shooting for some people is much easier than for others. I shot a harrington/richards revolver for many years with no rear sight at all. The adjustable sight fell out and i couldnt find a replacement. But, i didnt care because i was still very accurate with it. Even today my practical accuracy is good enough i rarely use the sights on my glocks inside of 25 yards. I just dont need them. I still practice with them to stay proficient if i need to make a more precise shot, but mostly dont need them.
I have owned and carried my Bobcat for years now and considered it my get-off-me gun. It is indeed a hoot to shoot and mine strongly desires MiniMags. Bulk ammo lasts for less than 2 mags before it decides it's had enough of the cheap stuff. And LOUD!!! It makes my other .22lr pistols sound like they're suppressed!!! Volume wise, it gives my 9mm's a run for the money. I highly recommend this fun little gun.
Over the years I've owned two Bobcats; bought my first one when they came out early eighties. Traded in my most recent acquisition for an SR22. The 21A pistols are great, well-designed, comfortable in the hand but finicky with ammo (bad primer strikes) and often failures to feed. (cartridges nose-dive in the top of the mag.) Both my pistols were older models. I imagine Beretta has improved the mechanisms and machining at this point. And yes, loud!
I just got one late last year. The trick is to shoot 40 grn ammo only and don't use cheap ammo or hollow points. Keep the barrel really clean. Q tips work great 👍
i think most of .22 failures are not the gun but the ammo, I've had numerous .22's and all were picky, my best results were always with CCI Mini Mag no matter the make of the gun except for the Taurus copy of the Beretta 21A, the taurus is junk.
@@ustinates335the Taurus copy is one of the worst firearms ever made I will never understand why they didn’t just make a clone of the beretta they had the licensing but no they chose to make it double action only negating one of the primary reasons for this pistol in the first place compound this with other design choices and you end up with an inbred cousin for this great little gun
God I really wish I could own a pistol like this! It is so perfect! Small size, seems to indeed have very good recoil, and the handling seens really good for my hands. I don't care what people says about .22, I bet many people has used such caliber in a self defense scenario
22 scary shoot some in the shoulder and it could come out anywhere or just stay after bouncing around. I would t say it's bad for self defense as much as it's very inhumane sounding😂
To people who's not so familiar with Imperial units (british), 1 yard is about 0.91 meter, so he just hit a 90 meter target twice with in 7 bullets using a bobcat, I know bobcat is an accurate gun, but he is such a darn FINE shooter.
only 2 outta 7 no he isnt even a decent shot that doesnt even qualify but less make a "darn fine" shot and 3 hits at forty FEET my 5 year old shoots better than that Dont piss down my back and tell me its raining
I had one in the 90s and traded it off about 15 years later. Then i had regrets, so i got another one about 3 years ago. My wife has pretty much claimed it, because it's "cute". 😮💨
When I started out in law enforcement, my first backup piece was a Beretta 21-A in .22LR. That thing was amazingly accurate. Over time and a LOT of shooting, it would change which ammo it preferred, but it was with me for quite a while. Overall, I much prefer the single-action 950 in .25 as it has a much less fat grip and holds a couple more rounds of .25 ... for what that might be worth. But, these are fun. Several years ago I had a chance to shoot a Beretta 21A side-by-side with a Beretta 70 .22 and a Ruger 10-22, all using the same suppressor (I think it was called the Mite by yankee Hill). On the rifle, you could hear the firing pin hit the rim of the case. On the Model 70 pistol, the sound was easily hearing safe and lots of fun. On the little 21, though ... woo ... barely hearing safe (probably not actually) and so much blow back you better have glasses on. BUT, it was sooooo freaking cool. Like I said, that was years ago and suppressors have come a long way.
Just picked-up a really clean pre-owned 950 about a month ago and I actually prefer it over my Bobcat 21-A and Tomcat. Interestingly, I stopped at a little central Texas Mom & Pop hardware store that had 25ACP on the shelf! Cleaned them out of 650rounds of Aquila, PMC Bronze, and Magtech! Life is good!
@@copanobaydoc1986 - Great find! Way back around 1988 or so I found a 950B in .22 short ("Minx") and loved it. Traded it up later. Then a few years back, I found a nearly pristine 1964 vintage 950B and bought it. They are amazingly accurate, reliable, and handy. Great find on the ammo! I've got quite a bit stuck back but I'd love to find a haul like that! I still tote it fairly often as a back-up or for a gym-shorts kinda thing.
@@CeltKnight You hit the 950B jackpot twice! At present, I continue my search for the Holy Grail of 221A's, that being a new one chambered in 25ACP. I'd love for Beretta to crank out some Inox 21A's in 25ACP, hell, I'd buy two!!!
@@copanobaydoc1986 - Heck yeah, man! The guns are just so beautiful and despite their Lilliputian size, fit most hands really well. I lucked out for a while, too on magazines. Seemed like every time I walked into an antique mall/flea market someone had a magazine for a few bucks. I think I now have .. 4? That tiny gun and 3 spare magazines take up very little space.
They are as accurate as the shooter. I got mine in the late 1990s during an invasion of large grasshoppers. I was able to plug em all day at 30 feet. I have owned Baretta firearms since the 1950s. Fine firearms for the long haul. Also have a .32 Tomcat. Great shotguns as well.
I purchased a used Beretta Bobcat in .32 ACP many years ago and my mother used if for a while as her CCW handgun. She did not have the strength to rack a slide and the Bobcat eliminated that need. I would love to have a threaded barrel and suppressor on it. I purchased a Ruger SR-22 with the Ruger Silent-SR suppressor on it a couple of years ago. It is reliable and reasonably quiet.
One day, when I move to America, I am going to finally buy a suppressor. I don't even care that none of my guns have threaded barrels. If I am fortunate to have a muzzle device, its "pinned and welded" in place. LOL
That is my favorite pistols. It fits great right next to your seat belt release button and console. Almost as if it was made to set there all nice and snug.
They are finicky for sure. I have an older original (aftermarket threading), as well as one of the new FDE ones that is already threaded, and both of them run pretty much flawlessly with CCI, and will literally not finish a mag with bulk bucket ammo.
I have tried 2 over the years. The last one a 2020 year model. Not a reliable action, tried all the CCIs, nothing ran well. They are prone to malfunction, buyer beware.
@@timclarke9627 I have 3 including the newer covert model. You’re 100% correct the action is not reliable because it has no extractor. The design goes way back though as self defense pocket pistol. With CCI mini mags I’ve never had an issue getting through 4 magazines 100% with a clean gun. If you’re shooting more than a mag or two you’re in deep shit and should have had a legit pistol. These were used by the CIA and 22lr berettas by mossad which is cool in my book.
I should have got the .22 instead I got the Tomcat .32 . Nothing makes it quiet. And the back of the slide is super sharp, don't let your hand ride up, it bites hard.
As I’ve always said “everyone talks shit about .22lr, but nobody wants to get test shot by .22lr.” Very capable defensive round, because you can literally put every round into the exact same spot; nobody wants 5 rounds of .22lr put into their center mass. Not one shot drop, but when someone’s heart is during its best impression of Swiss cheese and bleeding like a cartoon character; they’re not getting far.
I consider the .22LR a very close only defense caliber, I can promise you that in close quarters 2 or 3 rounds of .22LR in a perps face will buy you plenty of time to get the HE** out of what ever situation you are in
My grandmother had one that she kept in her purse when I was a wee little lad!! I'll never forget the first time I realized that she carried a little pistol with her all the time. We were at the grocery store and she was pulling out her wallet to pay the lady her little pistol got caught on the strap of the wallet and fell out and hit the ground. It all happened in slow motion as I was realizing my sweet little grandma was a total badass and that she wasn't one to be fucked with. Lmao!! Her father (my great grandpa) was a K-9 cop for damn near 40 years, so I shouldn't have been surprised, but I just remember thinking "oh shit grandma!!! We're going to jail!" I don't think the cashier even noticed, but the woman with 3 unruly hellions behind us did. She started shoving kids behind her and I remember chuckling because my sweet grandmother was the candy lady. Always had a purse full of candy. And apparently a pistol as well. Lol! And I had been in that giant purse a million times digging candy out of it and never once noticed it until it fell out that day. I was poking the bear when I started saying ”shoot em grandma!!" every time one of the boys at church or the camping club would get outta line. I always said it with that smart ass grin on my face. It was an inside joke we had till the day she passed. She'd go from ready to tan your hide to "psh. Take your ornery ass outside and play boy before I go get that pistol and pistol whoop your skinny ass." God bless that woman. She was the greatest grandmother to ever live. Thanks for sharing this plinkster! I haven't went down that memory hole in a long time.
Absolutely love mine! So far… sticking with CCI I have had zero malfunctions regardless of grain but would love to suppress because it is a loud cricket
It's just a well made, easy to maintain and clean, affordable, easy to fire, highly concealable self-defense weapon system. Lovely of you to share Plinkster. 👍♾👍
I have a beretta 950 minx.I was a big Bond fan,my dad couldn’t find me a 418 so got me the minx. Little smaller and chambered in 22 short. Wish they would make them again so I could get a couple magazines for it.
The flip barrel looks very useful. If you ran out of ammo, you can load quick a round while you are loading the mag again if it´s needed, because you´re still attacked.
I have had one of the old models for yrs.. it is picky on what it will run.. it definitely doesn't like cheaper ammo. It's fun to go out and pew pew with. 🤣 More small cal pistols should have the flip up option.. awesome feature! Especially for anyone with hand issues affecting racking!
I like the fact that he shot it from 100 yards a lot of gun reviews on RU-vid seem to shoot the gun at close range for shots is what shows the quality of a pistols rifling
I picked up a Bobcat for $200 several years ago. Can't believe what they're asking for new ones. It is LOUD. Loading 6 in the mag greatly improves reliability.
