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Beretta 38/42 at the Range (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2022-10-29 13:00:10 +0000 UTCThe pre-war Beretta Model 38A was a magnificent SMG, but it included a fair number of fancy elements that would prove to costly to justify once wartime production needs grew. Beretta would simplify the design progressively over the course of the war. What we have today is a Model 38/42 with a much simpler fixed-firing-pin bolt and a smooth barrel without jacket.
Is the 38/42 as nice to use as the original 38A? In my opinion, no - but it's pretty close. The Beretta 38 family in all its iterations are excellent guns.
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Guido Schriewer
ok that is nice and slow indeed. maybe bit heavy to carry but seems to shoot great.
Steven E
Yep, just as I remember it shooting. As I recall, the 38A? (it had the barrel shroud) and the 38/42 were about the same, soft shooting, controllable rate of fire, easy to use and accurate. The person who owned them has long since passed away, but he had about 40 C&R machineguns brought back from Korea and Vietnam, all transferred via military documents signed by his CO.
Fred V PATTERSON
Thanks. It looks useful.
Paul Beck
It sounds like the wind has a bit of an issue on the day of filming other wise It looked like a Fun day all the same!! 🤠👍
Kenneth Marshall
The mags were a great design and are so close to the what Uzi adopted, you can modify these Italian mags for an Uzi. Before Italian mags were pricey, and when Uzi mags weren't as surplus priced (80s) some would modify 40 round Italian mags to get higher cap in Uzi.
