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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Getting a Beretta model 84, what is consensus on this weapon?

Posted: 3/20/2009 4:35:35 PM EDT

So am going to be picking up a beretta Model 84 LNIB for $300 bucks. How is this weapon regarded? Everything i have found says it is a great little gun, anybody heave any experience with it? I would like to know your opinions. Thanks

Posted: 3/20/2009 5:23:06 PM EDT

[#1]

Never owned one, but have always wanted one. They seem to be nicely made little guns, IMO.

Posted: 3/20/2009 5:26:16 PM EDT

[#2]

I have a Browning BDA (same gun) and it is a very nice and reliable .380 ACP.

Posted: 3/20/2009 6:11:16 PM EDT

[#3]

I've got one of the old Pietro Beretta model 84 in 7.65 browning

It has the wooden grips on it like this one

http://files.uzitalk.com/reference/uzigal/guns/beretta84.jpg

I like it a lot.

But then again I'm a Beretta fan

Posted: 3/20/2009 6:47:54 PM EDT

[#4]

Always considered these to be excellent handguns, both the Beretta and the FN/Browning enclosed slide version.

Posted: 3/21/2009 7:10:21 AM EDT

[#5]

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Always considered these to be excellent handguns, both the Beretta and the FN/Browning enclosed slide version.

This is what I always hear, don't know what your intended purpose is going to be. 380 is a very marginal round for self defense and there are many 9mm options out there in about the same size package.

Posted: 3/22/2009 8:51:55 PM EDT

[#6]

I have one, and I love it. I think it's a classy pistol, and $300. seems like a decent price. That said, I think it's a little outdated from the standpoint of size/weight vs. caliber. If you do choose to carry it, it should serve you well. Mine has been absolutely dependable.

Posted: 3/24/2009 2:48:45 AM EDT

[#7]

I purchased an 84FS new a few years ago. It was very reliable and concealable. But I sold it because I found the blowback recoil to be sharper than I wanted. (This was the same reason I got rid of a Walther PPK/S.) But like all Berettas, it's very well made and magazine are readily available.

Posted: 3/24/2009 9:22:01 AM EDT

[#8]

My wife has a Beretta 84FS. It's a beautiful pistol and shoots very well.

FWIW, I was in a gunstore last week and saw LNIB 84's selling for $550.00 or thereabouts.

So for $300.00 I say go for it.

Posted: 3/24/2009 12:26:58 PM EDT

[#9]

I have had several of the double-stack ones, in .32 and .380 with de-cocker and without. The real find for a shooter is the single-stack version, feels much better.

Posted: 3/25/2009 1:44:02 PM EDT

[#10]

My main carry gun is a 84FS 13+1, I love my gun, because it is so reliable and it has a manual safety. I had Trijicon NS installed on it. You can get many reliable 9mm or lager calibers the same size but none having a manual safety. The Glock, S&W MP, XD, SIGs all great reliable handguns but no manual safety on them in the same size category. As far as being a marginal round, it is the same diameter of a 9mm and only 2mm less in case length. With modern HP +P is has just about the same penetration as the 9mm +P round has.

Posted: 3/25/2009 3:07:13 PM EDT

[#11]

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As far as being a marginal round, it is the same diameter of a 9mm and only 2mm less in case length. With modern HP +P is has just about the same penetration as the 9mm +P round has.

Check the balistics. 6-9" vs. 12-14"(ETA - #'s from memory of various tests, check in the ammo forum, no .380's meet minimum standards. Don't get me wrong, I have a .380 and it serves a purpose but it doesn't compare to the 9mm, especially the 124's and 147's)

Posted: 3/25/2009 4:36:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Great gun....Bad caliber!!!

Posted: 3/25/2009 7:00:29 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
My main carry gun is a 84FS 13+1, I love my gun, because it is so reliable and it has a manual safety. I had Trijicon NS installed on it. You can get many reliable 9mm or lager calibers the same size but none having a manual safety. The Glock, S&W MP, XD, SIGs all great reliable handguns but no manual safety on them in the same size category. As far as being a marginal round, it is the same diameter of a 9mm and only 2mm less in case length. With modern HP +P is has just about the same penetration as the 9mm +P round has.

Good reasoning. The .38 special case is way longer than 9mm, so I guess it must be like a 9mm Magnum, right?

Posted: 3/25/2009 8:45:00 PM EDT

[#14]

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Good reasoning. The .38 special case is way longer than 9mm, so I guess it must be like a 9mm Magnum, right?

Yea that's right .38 special = 9mm magnum

Very good point, I stand corrected.

Posted: 3/26/2009 7:57:42 AM EDT

[#15]

Quality handgun. That said, in today's market it is awfully big and heavy for a .380. It compares pretty well with a Cz-82.

Posted: 3/26/2009 8:58:44 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
So am going to be picking up a beretta Model 84 LNIB for $300 bucks. How is this weapon regarded? Everything i have found says it is a great little gun, anybody heave any experience with it? I would like to know your opinions. Thanks

Very high quality pistol. Every one I've ever messed with has been reliable. It's way too big for a .380 and frankly, .380's suck.

As a collector item (I have an irrational love of mouseguns) it's a very cool pistol.

As a carry weapon....better than fingernails.

Posted: 3/26/2009 10:21:18 AM EDT

[#17]

I have an 84BB, and it is a great gun. A .380 isn't what I carry for defense, but the 84 has its' purposes.

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