Baretta pico?

[BGD]

Has anyone seen the Baretta pico? Are they for sale yet?

I am looking for a pocket gun and out of everything I saw I like the size of the Rugar LCP 380 the best.

Nobody has the Baretta pico. I don't want to buy the LCP until I have seen the pico.

 

[Vol46]

As far as I know, the Pico has not yet been made available, despite Beretta having announced it's introduction over a year ago. If you check out the Beretta forum, there is a VERY long thread on the Pico in the handgun section - the content of the many posts can be summarized as " when the heck are they going to start selling this thing? "

 

[Vodoun da Vinci]

I'm hot for a Pico and look every day to see if they have actually been released. No dice...not yet. According to folks at SHOT who should know, it was to be released 2nd quarter of 2014.

That would be now. Still haven't seen one but will buy/order one as soon as it is possible.

VooDoo

 

[gym]

It's featured in one of this months gun magazines, I saw it at the CVS, but wasn't going to spend 10 bucks to read about it again. The pictures showed the one with the laser built in, so I'm thinking we are getting very close to shipping date for a 3 page spread to be in the Magazine.

 

[Vodoun da Vinci]

Sweet! That's great news, Gym. I have hope again now...I have 2 guns on my Bucket List and the Pico is one of them.

VooDoo

 

[BGD]

Thanks,
Hope they hurry. I am ready to see one.

 

[Fishbed77]

I wouldn't be surprised if Beretta is trying to distance its release from all the hype surrounding the release of the .380 Glock 42.

The Nano was released right between the Kahr CM9 & the M&P Shield, and as a result, it seems like a lot folks overlooked that gun.

 

[lincen]

Just getting over the "thrill" of owning the Remington R51. I also want the Pico but hope that Beretta gets it right before releasing it. I was hoping they would do the 32acp first.

 

[C0untZer0]

I know some folks who are happy with their Nano. I didn't overlook it, to me it just seemed like, yet another gun in that Kimber Solo, Sig Sauer P290, Kel Tec PF-11 size range, and over 17 ounces unloaded, it was going to weigh in just shy of 21 ounces loaded, which for me would be tolerable but a constant reminder that the weight was there. At 5.63" by 4.17" it takes up some room in a pocket. It wasn't the smallest, it wasn't the lightest, and it had high bore axis, it just wasn't appealing.

The fact that it came out between the CM9 and the Shield is apropos because that's what it is - a gun somewhere between a CM9 and a Shield.

 

[Onward Allusion]

As they used to call this stuff in IT . . . vaporware. Don't be a guinea pig and bet your life on a 1.0 release.

 

[usp9]

I wonder if production was delayed and caught in the Beretta operation moving to Tennessee?

 

[barnbwt]

"Don't be a guinea pig and bet your life on a 1.0 release."
I would submit a corollary to that is "don't buy a new design that's cheaper/the same as old ones". Loootta gun buyers out there think they deserve a quality piece that's also as cheap as it can possibly be made.

The old saw about "Fast, Cheap, and Quality; pick two" and the first two are much easier for a Corporation to hit earnings with

TCB

 

[mec]

They introduced them at the SHOT Show over a year ago. One or two writers got advanced copies but they have not gone into distribution. Cabelas verified that they have not seen any of them. According to one visitor to the NRA meeting last week Beretta was again showing them off as a new product.
Nobody seems to know ore be talking about why they haven't become available but Beretta appears to do their own Beta testing rather than following the established industry practice of rushing guns into distribution and then letting the buyers find out what's wrong with them.
What A Concept!