Possible Beretta 92FS 9mm purchase

[ncbearman]

Looking to possibly add this to my collection. Anyone have this weapon?

Any and all info/feedback positive or negative would be appreciated.

As usual, thanks in advance for your time.

Russ

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[rintinglen]

Although I don't like them all that much--feel "wrong" in my hand--I think that they are excellent firearms. I gave mine to my son in law, but I never had a malfunction with it in shooting 8 or 10 boxes of ammo through it while I had it. Accuracy was better than that of most stock Glocks, IME. Reliability is second to none.
"If it feels good--do it." Or so they said back in the hippy days. If it handles well for you, I think you'll be very happy.

[USAFrox]

My wife loves it, because it is really heavy for a 9mm, so its weight really helps negate the muzzle jump and recoil. Makes for a nice-shooting gun. I'm not a fan of the exposed barrel, which can allow all kinds of **** into the works, but that's a personal quibble of mine. I've shot it quite a bit in the military (qualified 3x expert and one time just regular qual), plus I wore one while in the sandbox.

I'm not a fan of the 9mm caliber in particular, but can't really honestly complain about this particular specimen of the breed.

[ncbearman]

rintin- yes it has to feel good I agree 100% I held one yesterday and it was comfortable for me. Thanks for the response.

USA- not a 9mm fan either, but my only 9mm is a WWII P38 which is why I looked at Beretta first that thing is awesome and loves cast boolits. Very accurate. I actually like the exposed barrel lok and was gonna ask if you can get a stainless barrel for it. Thanks for your service buddy!

Keep em comin' guys THANKS

[Blammer]

if it is the ACTUAL photo, I'd snap it up. Looks like a "stainless" frame with a blued upper.

I have one and have had it for about.... well, since they came out new the first year. (1992 I think?) I've shot LOTS of rounds through it including a bunch of cast.

It's a good gun, I like it. If you get a good price, get it.

[GabbyM]

I had a Tarrus 92 way back. It never fit my hand. Like others say. Hold it up and the sights don't line up. That's a personal fit issue.
My daughter has it now out in AZ. She has a S&W M-15 for back country carry so hits can be made at extended range. THE 92 is for the space between herself and the front door.

For me it seams an auto grip with a hump back. I had a S&W M39-2 that was perfect. Like a fool I sold it. I like the CZ-75. You just need to go to the gun store. Get a grip on the pistol. close your eyes and hold it out. When you open your eyes you'll see if it's lined up. Life is just to short to waste time shooting a pistol or shotgun that doesn't fit.

[LUCKYDAWG13]

love mine shoots cast great

[kweidner]

I fought with one all summer. Honestly think that one needed a new bbl to shoot cast. Leaded no matter what I tried. Sent it down the road as it liked jacketed. Now have a MP 9c and haven't looked back.

[Reaper]

At one time , I owned three of them. Traded two of them off and kept one marked Border Marshall. Mostly shoot the Lee 356-120-TC ahead of 4gr. of Bullseye. This load cycles all my 9's and with 1,700+ loads per pound, it's thrifty to shoot.......Ron

[MtGun44]

Replace the hammer mainspring with one from a 1911 and you will have the
sweetest double action pull you have ever seen for $5. No problems busting
primers, either.

Lee 356 120 TC, air cooled wwts, sized .357 works great in mine. No leading
and feeds reliably.

Bill

[kweidner]

Have had PM's concerning the one I fought this summer. The leading was caused from a slight peening from the hood on the slide. Gun was super accurate, it just leaded at that slight restriction. Manufacture said peening was considered normal wear and gun was not designed to shoot lead. Enough info for me. I realize not all have had this problem but wanted to throw it out there in case anybody else was wondering. The peening bothered me. Replace the barrel and they indicated it would happen eventually again. It would in NO way affect the guns reliability and accuracy shooting jacketed. They are great guns just not for me and cast IMHO.

[BCRider]

I haven't tried lead loads through mine yet. But after this thread I'm going to try a few to see what it does.

I like my 92 but it's a gun for folks with big hands. It's got as big or bigger a wrap around size as anything out there. But for those of us that it fits I'd say it's a great gun if you like the looks. Which I do.

One little niggle. I've shot mine in IDPA and found that it's easy to switch the slide mounted decocker to "safe". Pretty much drags things to a halt for a second or two. But I'm "programmed" to rack the slide from a slide lock reload from all my other guns. So I don't tend to use it in any serious matches. But for those of you that faithfully use the slide lock to release the slide this won't be a problem.

[Silver Jack Hammer]

I carried the Beretta 92FS blued from '91 to '98 as a peace officer, on and off duty, in investigations, patrol, in competetion and on the SWAT team. The absolutely most reliable 9mm platform in the universe.

Keep it oiled and it will run. Don't oil the space aged alloy it's made from and it will not run. We had a saying, if there isn't an oil stain on your seat where your holster is you are not using enough oil. It was my 50 commissioned agency's most favorite gun. When they bought us Glock's, guys spent their own money to buy Beretta's.

Back to the oil. I live in a wet climate, oiled guns work great here. They took this platform to the sand pit. The sand in the wind would adhere to the oil and cause problems. I could have told them that was going to happen. Then they ran them without oil in the sand pit, and they had problems of course. I probably would choose something else in a dry dusty climate for daily carry. This would have been the perfect handgun for SE Asia.

I wouldn't put it in a community dunk tank for cleaning. That caused us problems. The Glock's get washed in the dunk tank and run fine, but the Beretta's and Sig's needed to get completely dried off after the dunk tank and then oiled up good.

I did not cast for my 92FS, I would experiment with a harder alloy as the 9mm is a high pressure cartridge, maximum industry working pressure is 35,700 cup.

I took the 1911 .45 trail, maximum 19,900 cup which is a working world for cast boolits.

[MtGun44]

Air cooled wwt alloy is just fine, IME.

Bill

[rintinglen]

I generally agree with Bill but I found that properly sized, heat treated, wheel weights worked better with less leading than air cooled. I was running Lyman 356-242 122 grain boolits over Unique or Power Pistol in my 92. Good lube matters. Recluse formula 45/45/10 not recommended, nor Lee Liquid Alox, unless you multi-coat and make it thick,in which case it gums up your seating die and then you have to keep a close watch on over all length. I use Ben's Red.

[ncbearman]

kids that hunt and fish dont mug old ladies

Dawg> love your tag line.

My grandpa always used to say that. I was about 8 before I figured out what he meant I thought there was a group of 8 year old kids running around mugging old ladies haha

rintin> Excuse my ignorance, but what is meant by heat treated as opposed to air cooled. Are you referring to water dropped?

This is great guys. Thank you. Keep em' coming.
Russ

[ElDorado]

I generally agree with Bill but I found that properly sized, heat treated, wheel weights worked better with less leading than air cooled. I was running Lyman 356-242 122 grain boolits over Unique or Power Pistol in my 92. Good lube matters. Recluse formula 45/45/10 not recommended, nor Lee Liquid Alox, unless you multi-coat and make it thick,in which case it gums up your seating die and then you have to keep a close watch on over all length. I use Ben's Red.

This is close to my 92 cast load. I have a 358242, sized to .357, lubed with Javelina and loaded with Unique. I shoot a lot of FMJ with Unique in it, too. I never had any problems with the gun, although a friend's kid used to have limp-wristing problems with it.

[Fishman]

Mine has a .358 bore. They are extremely well made.

[Bzcraig]

I'm not a fan of the slide mounted safety, but other than that, for a large hand, it could be the perfect 9mm. They can be tuned to be very accurate shooters.

[harley45]

We love ours everyone in my family shoots it from my 12 year old on up!