Beretta 418 Pistol
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This is a really cool little .25 ACP pocket pistol made by Beretta from the 1920s to the mid-1950s. It's got classic styling and was made with old-school methods. I got this one for a deal, fixed it up and fired some rounds. Check it out!
So that gun is infamous. I read back in the day the .25 couldn't reliably penetrate a 1950s trash can lid! I am old enough to remember the James Bond movie with it in it.
Dr. No?
They dont make trash cans like they used to...
.25 Auto is ballistically equivalent to .22 Long Rifle, it's just that ammo manufacturers don't have any common .25 rifles to chrono with, unlike with .22
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine .25acp is worse than .22lr. I've bought several of them over the years and traded every one of them for either .22lr or .32acp.
@@Stroke-it-2Handed In price maybe. It's virtually the same speed and mass as .22LR, only it's much more reliable and cleaner.
What kind of guns were you buying in .25?
I love little pistols like this. I just ordered a Beretta 21a parts kit off of gunbroker and I 3d printed a frame. Cant wait to build it!
That is fantastic! I have Beretta 950 pistols. The frame for the 22 short Minx is identical to the 25 Jetfire. By changing the slide, barrel and magazine I can now shoot both cartridges and I even made a barrel and mag for 22 long rifle! Try it! Cheers.
I have a 950 BS jetfire and I never knew I could swap it to run .22 shorts .
I think Fleming might be an exception to the "writers don't know about guns" bit. Lol
I have always wanted one of these tiny little pocket pieces.
Thank you
Kind of, at the end of the day Boothroyd wrote to Fleming saying the Beretta was “A lady’s gun and not a very nice lady at that” and recommended the more powerful PPK because of the ubiquity of ammo. Fleming then wrote in a “Major Boothroyd” and included a scene upgrading Bond’s armament.
Stephen Hunter too
I agree with Boothroyd, the 7.65mm PPK is a better pistol for 007, in large part because the specific Beretta 418 described by Fleming is kinda bubba, with a 'sawed off' barrel and the grip panels removed.
Also, Ian Fleming's personally owned Ruger Mk.1 pistol, complete with provenance papers, went up for auction some years back.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine kinda Bubba - Bond did the whole shebang. Removed the grip, taped down the grip safety, removed the front sight, threaded for a suppressor- and he carried it with the can in a chamois holster which nearly got him perforated by a Russian death shoe. 😂 (I still cheered when Dalton grabbed a Beretta Jetfire in License to K1ll.)
I was shot in the leg by a .25 acp beretta identical to that .32, it had lemon squeezer , firing pin indicator, and a flip lever safety . A female I was seeing at the time had picked it up and as I walked into the room no sooner than I said “that’s loaded” it went off and hit my just above the knee
I had a buddy who wasn’t too bright.
He had a cheap .25 probably a Jennings or something similar.
He dropped it loaded and it fired a round that went through the bottom of the inside of his left knee and out the top.
He wouldn’t go to the hospital because the gun was stolen.🙄
He was picking denim out of the wound for months and it got infected pretty badly.
For some reason your story reminded me of that.🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🥃
Stay safe, date dudes
@@Leaked_Dudes not with such an username
Jennings and Bryco pistols have a rear take down button that moves inwards. I was going to suggest new Wolf Springs, but you beat me to it.
I read Mr. Stephenson's comments about Ian Fleming, calling him a mere file clerk, and I have heard the tale about how he let friends recommend what weapons James Bond would have. That is so strange to me. File Clerk? He was one of the first folk ashore in the Commando raid on the Nazi radar installations at Dieppe. He was also one of the planners of the military courier corpse that washed up on the coast of Spain and fooled the Nazis into believing the Allies would land at Greece and not Sicily. I suspect Mr. Fleming knew a lot more about firearms than his books suggest.
Neat gun. You should also get a Baby Browning for comparison.
You do know that the "writer", Ian Fleming, was part of British naval intelligence and 30 Commando, a specialist combined operations unit.
Yes. Thats why I was looking for your comment.
I’ve read that Fleming carried a .25 ACP Baby Browning during the war.
Tiny pocket guns are perfect for secret agent sneaky stuff, easy to conceal. They're not supposed to do much shooting.
@@Kaboomf exactly. If your spies are doing a lot of shooting and it isn't planned, you're already losing the spy game. OSS and early Cold War spooks loved pocket pistols and hideaway zip gun type deals, they weren't all carrying full sized pistols around.
Bond was based on Christopher Lee, Dracula and Dooku are Bond!
You're missing the striker spring guide. It's a little hollow brass tube that fits into the rear striker spring retainer. It keeps the spring straight so the pin on the back of the striker doesn't damage the spring.
Mark...this is gold. GOLD!
"Mark buys a gun he doesn't know about and fixes it/takes it apart/talks about it".
I'd pay $50 a month on Patreon for 3 or 4 of these a month.
GOLD!
Before the PPK, this was the OG James Bond gun.
Fun fact, the model was never given, all we were told was it was a beretta 25acp mag fed. Until Major Boothroyd took it off him
@@jediknight1294 The model number was never given, but the 418 is the only possible candidate, due to time frames given in the novels.
Some argue that it could have been the 318 (which is basically the same gun anyway) but that is exceedingly unlikely, since they only made 1,000 of them, and production ended in 1937.
M gives Bond a brand-new replacement pistol at the end of Moonraker, which was set in 1953, so that could only be a 418.
@@jediknight1294 wasn't the gun taken from 007 because it failed to fire on the previous assignment?
@@stay_at_home_astronaut No, you never read the books. In From Russia With Love the suppressor of his Beretta got caught in the waistband of his pants while fighting someone in a cramped space. Something that is noted could happen to any pistol. It did not fail him.
Hi Mark, great video about the forgotten baby Beretta.
Quick story about the reason why the Beretta 418 was used as the original James Bond gun. Ian Fleming lived (part-time) In Estoril, Portugal during WW2 when worked as a Royal Navy intelligence officer. Gun laws in Portugal have evolved through the decades but one thing that seems to remain the same is that the concealed carry license for the general public only allows .25acp self loading pistols or (any) .32 revolvers. Hence pistols chambered in .25acp were always and remain to this day very popular and readily available. Ian Fleming himself carried an FN baby Browning .25acp during this time, and most likely the agents (spies) he met and worked with would carry .25acp rather that bigger frame and calibre pistols to avoid suspicion. Beretta, FN and Walther being the most popular brands in the Portuguese market to this day, so it would be no surprise that Ian Fleming would choose one these little guns.
Very interesting.
Fleming was issued a Colt 1908, .25 , he kept it and it is listed in his estate with serial number. The British estate listed Browning but the serial number matches a Colt 1908.
@@bhartley868 Thank you, that's very interesting, I never knew that. It makes sense because it is believed (although not proven due to it's covert nature) that the SOE used the Colt 1908. Also the Colt does look like a FN baby Browning, maybe it is why they listed as a Browning rather than Colt.
Clearing the 418 and having the barrel come back with the slide is just due to wear. I snagged one at auction a few years ago, when taking it down the barrel requires a little force to press it out of the slot it sits in.
The Beretta 1938 is the same takedown design but is a larger .380 and hammer fired.
Very neat gun as well that you might like to check out.
Great video as always mark!
Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, served in the British Navy during World War II from 1939 to 1952. During his time in service, he was involved in various intelligence operations, including the planning of the famous Operation Goldeneye.
As a naval intelligence officer, Fleming was not a frontline combatant and did not carry a personal firearm as part of his duties. Instead, he primarily used intelligence-gathering techniques, including gathering information from agents and intercepting enemy communications.
However, it is worth noting that Fleming was known to be interested in firearms and was an experienced marksman. He owned several guns, including a Beretta 418 pistol, which was later famously used by James Bond in the novel "From Russia with Love." It's unclear whether he owned or used any firearms during his military service, but it's possible he had some exposure to them as part of his training and intelligence work.
So, I guess this writer knew a thing or two 😂
Reminds me a little of the AMT 380 I carried back in the 90s.
I had one too
the original bond gun. also ian Fleming was a little more than just a writer lol
So many cool things in one video.
But Mark, there's a sound throughout that sounds like someone hitting a bong behind the camera. Some kind of camera rattle?
Some kind of rattle every time he bumped the bench.
My great grandpa bought one of these for my great grandma to carry in her purse! i don't think she fired it a single time. he also left behind an unfired bobcat with a bunch of vintage .22 ammo. its crazy that the G43X is almost the same size as the bobcat was and it jumps from .22LR up to full size 9x19mm
Ian Fleming was part of SEO in world war 2 he was a spy and knew alot about guns 😁
print an extra dummy mag thats solid, for clearing and display
No, I can’t come to bed…
Mark just uploaded!
What is my wife doing there?!
I have bought many springs from Wolff. They make quality products.
Imagine your selling a shitty worn out gun and when you meet up to sell it to the guy the guy turns out to be mark serbu haha
I once met an inspiring person who encouraged me to set my goals high. He would always say, “Shoot at the moon. If you miss, you’ll land amongst the inmates at the federal penitentiary.”
There’s something about little pocket pistols that I really enjoy! Very cool piece!
Was kinda hoping for some slowmo but that’s alright.
man, youre recycling or upcycling a firearm. thats super green of you. thanks for saving the environment mark!
Mark your always showing us something interesting, I love it!
Have a t-shirt made up that says gun torture or. On RUclips are detailed videos of disassembling and reassembling the Beretta .25 . I think you did something wrong.
However you are probably a nice guy. Ian Fleming was issued a Colt 1908, .25 in WWII .He kept it and it is listed in his estate. The serial number is 257024, listed Browning : between 1911-1914 manufacture date .
So Fleming thought .25 were just fine and gave his made up agent James Bond a .25 , Fleming liked the name of the Beretta .25, in print. He may have seen a Beretta .25 once or read about one in a dossier. There exists a letter to gunsmith Robert Churchill, where Fleming asks for help. Fleming wrote asking about a Biretta , caliber .28 , possibly a typo on the .28 .
Fleming was asking if the gun existed. Fleming wanted the most exotic-sounding weapon to be carried unobtrusively in a shoulder holster.
I inherited this pistol from my grandpa. Mine has 1953 is the only difference. I’ve never been able to find the model number or any information about it. I GREATLY appreciate your video. Can I get the information on what specific springs you ordered? And can I purchase one of those stands? Thanks much
reminds me of my grandfathers old orgties pistol
I once read a book on espionage in enemy territory during WW2, and one of the veteran spies was quoted saying that when meeting a contact, you kept your hand in the coat pocket and the finger on the trigger until you knew that the guy in front of you was your contact. For that kind of work, looks like the ideal gun.
What would a writer know about guns? Well, a writer from the 50s that only got to be a writer after half a life of real working experience as conpared to a modern 'writer' with a 'Journalism Degree' with a minor in gender studies? Probably a surprising amount.
Took uh set
Just bought mine a week ago and tried it on a 50m range on a swiss rifle target (about 1m wide), managed to hold the 7 circle with S&B ammo woth a quiet Hand
What do you think about doing some brush on brass electroplating on the rails of that barrel, to add some thickness to help it stay in place better?
Tulio Marengoni designed all the Beretta pistols up to a certain time. The 418 is almost the same as the 1934 in 380. I have wanted a 418 for so long. Can I have yours? I love your videos and products. I construct both cartridge and air pistols from scratch and you are a great inspiration! I definitely stay away from the Royal Nonesuch construction methods. Cheers.
Love your videos, but for this one could you put the Geiger counter away before you hit record?
I have a Beretta 950. Tiny pistols in .25 acp are fun.
Ppk is a hammer fired gun. It doesn't that little stop in the back.
What does a writer know? 😂
"Towards the end of World War II, Fleming, now a Commander in the Intelligence Office, took charge of 30 Assault Unit, a group of highly trained commandos sent on specific intelligence missions. Fleming's unit copied and stole valuable Nazi documents and infiltrated German intelligence units."
I have to have a mag in my Seecamp to clear it. It is very annoying.
I have that same pistol, the way I clear it is with the safety off. The safety lever is what actually holds the barrel in place not the magazine.
Mark when will you gift me a super shorty i will not be stopped
Don't need safety glasses, just use the safety squint
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I've been doing a deep dive on the Bond guns, then this video comes out. I can understand if the algorithm tied me in to my favorite tinkerer AND the Beretta. But brand new...
As for the. 25, he kept a .38 Colt under his pillow, and a .45 New Service in his glove box.
Edited to correct the name of the. 45.
slow mo pless
Yes pless
Aw yiss pless
"I disagree, Sir. I've never missed with the Jet." "Nice and light - in a lady's handbag. No stopping power."
"Double O-Seven!? ... Just leave the Beretta."
Walther PPK, 7.65 mil with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. The American CIA swear by them.
The GT27 resembles your gun a lot. The Tanfoglio was hammer fired, had no grip safety, and the barrel was fixed.
Looks like $100 well spent!
"Lady's gun, Bond."
To all you kids out there, "Sarcasm Sheldon". Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond series was a spy master in ww2. And yes a .25 will kill just like a .22.
In Fleming's defense, even in-universe the gun is said to suck, and MI6 had to force Bond to switch to the PPK because he failed to kill someone with the 418 and nearly died himself because of it.
noisy cricket!
Thats one sweet little mouse gun
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Did you know that Buffalo Bore actually sells 'Heavy' .25 ACP ammo? It's a 60 grain hard cast flat nose bullet @ 851 fps from a 2.4 inch barrel / 822 fps from a 2 inch barrel. The 2.4 inch barrel would generate 96 foot lbs of energy. It seems like a pretty significant step up from the regular 50 grain FMJ.
NOTE....Mark be careful The Beretta jammed on James Bond and almost got him killed and Bond spent 6 months in the hospital ruclips.net/video/tU98uP7pXA8/видео.htmlsi=uwnwLkXMTko9GsFE
The writer was Ian Fleming who was in British intelligence during World War II. What did he know about guns? He carried them; and he also knew that during World War II, this was the gun most commonly issued to agents of British intelligence. However, he does not specify the gun Bond had used. It's merely inferred. It's referred to as "that Beretta" in the book and 1962's Dr. No. It could have also been a Beretta 318 or Beretta M1934 although that's unlikely. If you're having issues with it, it's almost certainly a matter of lost or damaged springs in the slide.
Fleming was alerted to an interest in guns for films by a man named Geoffrey Boothroyd who becomes Major Boothroyd in the film. That character becomes Q.
Mark growing up in Detroit I actually saw a couple of these Pistols. I KNEW right away it was both the striker and mainspring that were gone. I actually fixed an old Brescia .25 by simply replacing a spring. They are actually pretty good .25,s.
That's pretty cool! Many moons ago I worked for a company that made Browning "Baby" .25 ACP pistols under both the Browning and PSP, Inc. names. After having made, assembled and tested thousands of them, I have a great affection and respect for not only the round, but for the Browning pistol.
Also, what's making the odd clicking sounds- something with the camera?
12:22 - I think brass expanded in chamber and fit so thigly in there also dragging the barrel via extractor. Barrel should be attached to receiver.
Fleming was aware of the limitations of the pistol, but his rationale for this choice is explained several times in the first novels.
Nash looked apologetic. `Fraid not. Got a Luger at home, but it's too bulky
for this sort of job.'
`Oh, well,' said Bond reluctantly. `You'd better take mine. Come on in.'
They went in and Bond shut the door. He took out the Beretta and handed it
over. `Eight shots,' he said softly. `Semi-automatic. It's on safe.'
Nash took the gun and weighed it professionally in his hand. He clicked the
safe on and off.
Bond hated someone else touching his gun. He felt naked without it. He said
gruffly, `Bit on the light side, but it'll kill if you put the bullets in the right
places.' (From Russia with love)
Ian Fleming was a member of British Naval Intelligence during World War II and carried a .25 ACP Baby Browning. During his service, Commander Fleming was tasked with capturing enemy documents and analyzing them for actionable intelligence.
James Bond’s choice of sidearm was due to Fleming’s familiarity with the .25 ACP, but he settled on the Beretta 418 due to the higher capacity and the grip safety, which allowed Bond to carry with the manual safety disengaged. Bond also carried it without grip panels, which is a terrible idea considering the fact that the sear would be exposed and create an additional snagging hazard.
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Fun fact: when Bond receives his PPK in _Dr. No_ , the prop used for the Beretta he hands in is actually a M1934 in (I think) .380, not the 418 his character carried.
That creaking noise is just TITS! As long as it’s not your chair. Wish I lived in Florida so I could apply to work for you. Great vid as always Mark. Thank you for great content.
Funny you group Ian Fleming not knowing guns. He was a member in the British SOE during WWII. Not that he was a trigger puller, but you think some of that would have rubbed off.
You DO NOT take down a Walther PPK by the rear of the slide as you claim in the video, you do it by lowering the front of the triggerguard. Please don´t spread misinformation while you claim being a weapon engineer.
Way cool!!! I inherited a 1970s, unfired colt, 25acp. Pocket pistols 😂
about that "well theres an unsafe way to take down a gun".... there's always Glock! "here, pull the trigger while you take down the slide" im sure somewhere there's someone who didnt clear it first and "oops"! i have to say, im enjoying KelTec's designs for that feature
is there any chance of you licensing your "super shorty" to anyone like say.... PSA?
Eye-ties and their eye for design 👌
That slide has all the stylings of every Beretta since!
I just rebuilt one for my son with a wolff spring kit. Unfortunately we haven't been able to source a factory mag. The wolff service pack really brings them back from the dead.
A tighter version allows the barrel to wedge into position and stay put. To remove the barrel you lock the slide back and drive the barrel back by plastic hammer or by driving the muzzle backward against a table or other wooden object...freeing the barrel from the frame.
Have one made in 57 and enjoy it for its quirkyness.
Elegant and beautiful the open slide Betetta pistols. 8:36. Walther ppk is hammer fired not a striker gun. A gun that comes apart as you were describing would be a Raven 25 for example.
Great video. For $100.00 + a couple of springs I think you'll have enough fun with it to justify that cost. The collectors value is low since its both worn and a little beat up at the rear of the frame. If it were me I'd fix the damage, refinish the slide and instead of anodizing the frame I'd polish it bright as its just an aluminum alloy. This would make it far more attactive and also increase the value.
Strang by todays standers......originally leaving the slide locked back on an empty mag was considered normal
Morning brother
Really cool little plinker reminds of the pk and ppk
Hope you have a good one
God bless
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Bro
That lever on the right side of the frame .... you should swing it forward while the slide backwards
That's the barrel lock
hey Mark eight shots and the way you are grouping (which probably isn't that bad for such a little gun) wouldn't that almost be like 1 Buck Shot round maybe 12 gauge (not sure of the Ballistics) not a bad shot even with the reading glasses
A friend of mine (he passed away in 94’ at age 65) had a Walther PP made in Thuringia in .25 acp. I tried to get him to sell it to me and he said he’d will it to me. Needless to say, I never got it. They’re pretty rare now. We used to have a sporting goods store, here in Seattle, named Warshal’s and their guns sales rep argued that Walther never built the PP in a .25 so I brought in one of my books that listed them.
Firearms safety wasn’t really a thing back in the day. Because they knew firearms were dangerous. 😂🤣😂I’ve had several old guns that didn’t even have a safety.
Let me put on these glasses so that I can't see where I'm shooting. For safety! 😅
Mustn't bitch. I used the sights on an M60 as a guide and adjusted according to fall of shot. And became top gunner in the regiment. We were all quite terrible.😊
Hey Mark I was wondering which 3D printer do you recommend, I was thinking about getting one cause I am always finding things that it would be Bitchin if a part to do something but it would be a pain in the ASS to try to machine it BUT to print it 😮
Talk to Brandon Herrera (ThatAKGuy) about 3D printing gun parts.
So, the Raven MP25 is actually an improvement of this basic design.
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Really enjoy your videos Mark thanks dude
I had a little Beretta 32 auto that was made in 57. Looked just like this one just a little bigger. Couldn't hit a refrigerator across the kitchen if you tried. You could see the bullet tumbling out of it lol.
Nice, i happen to have a couple of old Berettas a 948 in 22lr and a 70 in 32 and both hammer fire ,they lock the barrel in same fashion but its retained by the axis pin of the safety that has a pourpose cut to free it in the 948 and a dedicated lever in the 70 model (safety is a push side to side button in the grips) . in your pistol the firing pin doubles as the ejector is clear in the video as it protrudes as the slide is held back and also has a grip safety ,all berettas blow backs lock the barrels in similar mode exept for the tomcat that has a tiping barrel .your pistol seems well worn and quite loose fit in the frame that is aluminum , it would be nice to do a restoration or at least a coating to the gun to make it shine again ,,maybe a two tone ?? cheers!!
On this gun and similar use, the striker spring and the recoil spring in tandem......like a duel or nested recoil spring???
Always wanted to see pocket pistols in 5.7. I guess chamber pressure would be too high.
Similar to how an Astra Cub and a Colt Junior come apart. Their barrels spin, then come out the front.
Lol I keep a 950 Jetfire on me most all the time. Especially at home easy to carry and worst case I'm shooting to get to other guns.
This was entertaining and it’s a neat little gun. Guess you’ve got to do whatever it takes to keep the Wolff from the door! 👍🏻😁
didn't Tanfoglio also make copies of this in .32acp & .380?
Thanks, Mark 👍
WG is what got me into building my own weapons. I was able to find help when taking on the daunting task of an HK91
The gun taken from 007 because it failed to fire on the previous assignment and he was issued the Walther.
Looks a lot like Tula Korovin pistol
Old man in reading glasses with ridiculous gun.
Puts 8 rounds in your face from 7 yards.