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Warhammer wrote:I'm not a .380 fan, but my Dad's little Bersa Thunders just never seem to jam. Many of the newer pocket .380's are pretty light weight and have an aweful lot of kick for such small guns. Add the small gun, light weight & hard kick to the fact that a lot of these shooters are beginers, and I imagine there are a lot of user induced (limp wristing) jams with those guns.

The Bersas are good guns. I bought one for my Father-in-law for Christmas last year, and it feed even the Herter's garbage that my LCP wouldn't digest just fine.

I agree, it seems a lot of people are wanting to buy the little .380 that have hit the market as their first gun, and aren't prepared for the movement such a small gun causes. The LCP is also a lugged locked-breech barrel, so limp-wristing is going to cause more problems than it would with a straight blowback design like the Bersa.

Dad24GreatKids wrote:I've never experienced a failure of any type with my Ruger LCP.

I used to be able to say that. Then I bought some Herter's from Cabelas, and it had all sorts of feeding problems.

Aside from junk ammo, I've never had problems. I've not found my LCP to be picky on ammo otherwise. That's what I get for buying the only available range stuff when the shortage was on. I stay away from Herter's for any caliber now.