Bersa Thunder 9 Ultra Compact - the good South American gun company

[Irving]

My little Brother had a Bersa Thunder in .380 and I couldn't hit a damn thing with it. That was before I learned to shoot though.

Great post, by the way.

[Eargesplitten]

My little Brother had a Bersa Thunder in .380 and I couldn't hot a damn thing with it. This was before I learned to shoot though.

Great post, by the way.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

The Thunder in .380 is more of a Walther PPK clone from what I've been able to tell. I have no opinion on them really, not particularly interested in .380 unless it comes with a tax stamp.

These really are underappreciated little gems. I've learned to adapt to some of the more common issues lefties face with pistols (you can drop the slide almost as fast by bringing your hand under the frame and tugging slightly like you were doing a press check), but it's nice to not have to worry about it and just use everything like a right-handed person would. I'm considering getting a Grand Power P1 or Q1S next, which is a similar situation, full ambi everything. Although that's becoming more common on striker guns at least now, strangely still hard to find ambi slide releases on hammer guns. Maybe because most of them are old designs. If I do buy one I'll probably do a review on that next. They've gotten a decent amount of coverage for how uncommon they are, but a lot of people have never heard of them.

The Thunder 9 Pro XT is very interesting to me, it's supposed to be a 6-7 pound DA pull with a 2-3 pound SA pull out of the box, which is a screaming deal when street price is under $700. Unfortunately it comes with 17 round magazines so unless you can get plugged magazines you're not finding one around here. I'll have to be satisfied with the SP-01 Tactical with Cajun goodies I bought on here I guess.