Bucket-O-Bersa

[VUPDblue]

Just before my daughter was born, I got this Bersa Thunder .380 as a basket case. Well, 17 months later, I finally finished it. I call it my 'poor man's PPK'! It started out as a pre-lock model in the nickel finish. The finish was poor at best, so I had it DuraCoated in stainless steel by Hoosier Guncoat. I stripped and polished all the small parts, they were black previously, and got a new set of grips. Here are the before and after pics:

Whadda y'all think of that! I was impressed as to how it turned out, and also in my ability to build the damn thing from a bucket-o-parts! So I'll say now, if you have a Thunder .380 that you want to sell cheap, I'LL TAKE IT.

 

[Dogman]

Very nice job.

 

[4sarge]

Excellent Work - Great Looking Pistol

 

[Disposable Heart]

Awesome gun!

I had one a year ago, was an idiot for selling it. Super accurate with handloads, reliable (after a couple boxes to machine everything in) and superb. I consider it a primary gun, many folks wont. The only thing that bummed me out about it was they didnt offer target or night sights for it

 

[Bigum1969]

Greal looking gun!

 

[nighthawk80]

Thats cool. It looks great. You did an excellant job.

 

[obijohn]

looks great. does it run?

 

[strongcrow]

Nice Work Nick...

 

[Cwood]

Great looking pistol, Nice work Nick!

 

[VUPDblue]

looks great. does it run?

Don't know yet. I just got everything all finished up yesterday and have not had a chance to get over to the range with it. Hopefully on Friday before FNS I'll get a chance to do a little breaking-in.

 

[darinb]

bersa build

Great looking gun and those are great pistols.

 

[shooter521]

Sweet. I'd take a Thunder 380 over a PPK any day of the week!

What can I say, I'm a blasphemer.

 

[Don]

Not selling mine, sorry. I like mine way too much.

 

[epsylum]

Sweet. I'd take a Thunder 380 over a PPK any day of the week!

What can I say, I'm a blasphemer.

Same here.

 

[Windwalker]

Great job. Nice looking gun.

 

[AllenM]

Looks real nice

 

[Hoosier8]

Same here.

Ditto

 

[duboismd]

Beautiful!!

 

[Slow Hand]

Looks good to me! Hope she shoots as good as she looks.

Doug K

 

[ryanmercer]

Nice... I love my Bersa .380 . Just a tip from me... stay away from pro-mag mags with it... Everyone raves about how great pro-mag mags are... but I've bought 3 now for the .380 and just about 1 round out of every mag will feed wrong... most of the time stove piping. The factory mag hasn't misfed once.