Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Beretta 1915: the First of the Beretta Pistols" video.

  1. For a 9mm Luger pistol the 9mm Glisenti ammo is a reduced power 9mm luger cartridge. USCCo made 84 million Glisenti cartridges for the Italian Army during WWI. At the end of the war, the leftovers (several million cartridges that had been produced, but not yet delivered to the Italians) were sold in the US as "special purpose 9mm Luger cartridges".
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  2. Yes. there are reload tables around. Only, it's better to not use the "4gr bullseye" that are often repeated in the English speaking world (and that will place the 9mm Glisenti load in the same ballpark of the military spec 9mm Parabellum). That was the load that USCCo used for a batch of 84 million rounds they made for the italian Army in 1917-1918, but those were cartridges for the Villar Perosa SMG. Pistol cartridges were closer to 3.3 grains bullseye. See http://www.grurifrasca.net/Sito/Ricarica/pistole/9glisenti.html
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  3. Well, really not. The M1915 is a full size pistol, not a compact, but The 1911 is bigger in every dimension. The 1911 is 32mm tick, 210mm long, and 136mm high, and weights 1105g without cartridges. The Beretta M1915 is 29mm X 171mm X 131mm, and weights 850g. The 1911, thanks to a long refinement process started with the 1900, was ergonomically very comfortable for those days despite the dimensions. It would be interesting to hear a comparison with the Beretta 1915 in this respect.
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  4. No, first than the M1915 Beretta was a dedicated producer of shotguns. Being in the business since 16th century is well likely they made many flintlock pistols in the past centuries, but the M1915 was the first modern design.
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  5. It depends on the design, but to cycle the action usually requires only a fraction of the recoil of the cartridge. Subsonic 9mm Luger loads that develops energies comparable to the 9mm Glisenti usually cycle the 9mm Luger pistols without problems.
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  6. To reload 9mm para to 9mm Glisenti specs is how those rounds are usually made, but the right reloading specs have to be used (do not use the "4 grains bullseye" that's often repeated in the English speaking world. that's a specific load for the "Villar Perosa" SMG. The original load is more 3.3 grains bullseye). Commercial subsonic 9mm Para are not right, since they usually are subsonic tanks to a heavier bullet.
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  7. That's how 9mm Glisenti cartridges are currently made, but there are rigid tables to follow for the reload. IE http://www.grurifrasca.net/Sito/Ricarica/pistole/9glisenti.html (the page is in Italian, but the tables are easily comprehensible).
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  8. All the 9mm Glisenti cartridges are subsonic 9mm Luger, but not all the subsonic 9mm Luger are 9mm Glisenti. Actually only very little of them are comparable (much subsonic 9mm Luger loads are subsonic only due to very heavy bullets).
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