Originally Posted by
Brian Ahearn
the bersa in 380 is a great little pistol , the p-64 I actually carry every day with glaser silver safety slugs and hornady critical defense. I carry 2 extra mags since it is a six shot mag. Easliy put all shots into a nice group at 20 yards on a 8 inch pie plate. If he goes 9x18 try and find somebody local that has one so that he can try it out first. 9x18 pistols are a little on the heavy side on recoil for some people. These pistols are underrated by the shooting community in general. I have found them to be excellent shooters and a good value price wise, ammo $10.00 and self defense ammo is available. They are easy to carry and deploy. I have the P-64,P-83, Pa-63 ,CZ82, russain hi-cap 12 mak. I even upgraded the sights on 2 of them. I have novak low profile sights on the Pa63 and on my Cz82 I installed XS big dots. There are alot of excellent carry pistols to choose from, what he needs to decide on is what caliber, what pistol fits his hand well, what round capacity does he want and what amount of money does he what to spend. Also does he train regularly with compacts . I also carry 9mm and 45 acp compacts. Like I said their are many choices available.