1/1/2023 0 Comments Beretta 950 serial numbers![]() ![]() After that it’s three back-to-back cruises to Iceland, Ireland, the U.K. Along the way I’ll show you the Canary Islands (again) rarely visited cruise ports in Spain and France a charming town in Germany, and another in the Netherlands. Next week I return to travel, taking on our recent late April-early July 71-day excursion to Europe and back. I hope you enjoyed Beretta Week, and I trust you found this Fun Firearm Friday to be particularly entertaining. While you’re pondering that, let me give you the relevant statistics and specifications on this firearm. If you can solve that mystery for me, I would be greatly appreciative. The 950 BS presented today was made in Accokeek, Maryland, but what year? These were produced in the U.S. He instead went with a design dating back to 1919.īut one mystery remains. Mystery solved! Ian Fleming didn’t use the most recent (at the time). Instead, on the tip-barrels, the lever in that location is the release for the pivoting tip-barrel. That lever also acts as the slide catch, something the tip-barrel Berettas lack completely. I can hear you now asking, but… but… but where’s that “safety catch” Bond engages? In the photo of the assembled 418, that would be the lever on the frame, just above the trigger. ![]() 41 Long Colt cartridges.īeretta 418 disassembled - Picture from 45 Colt it was only available in the much weaker. The Colt Army Special was never chambered in. 25 ACP just wouldn’t cut it (which would pretty much be any time Bond needed a weapon).Īs for that Colt Army Special, there’s also a problem with that description as well. 45 Colt Army Special (a.k.a., Colt Official Police) for those times when. 38 Colt Police Positive with a “sawn barrel” and a “long-barreled”. Considering the weak cartridges available to the 950, anyone licensed to kill and of sound mind would resort to neither the Minx nor the Jetfire. 25 ACP/6.35mm (“Jetfire”) and the incredibly anemic. It arrived in 1952, one year before the publication of the first Bond novel Casino Royale. ![]() The Beretta 950 was Beretta’s first tip-barrel pistol. Fleming didn’t even state the model number, which leaves us to speculate. He proved that repeatedly in the early Bond novels, beginning with the choice of a. ![]() Beretta 950 BS “Jetfire” hammer cocked and safety engaged (i.e., “locked”)Īs entertaining as Ian Fleming was, he certainly didn’t know much about firearms. ![]()
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