From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must admit I could get my .45 to jam if I wanted to, the black powder
loads I made for photographic purposes never fed reliably but I never had
the thing jam using properly made ammunition so thereby lies the tale.
nick
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.45s do jam more often than 9mm Berettas, though not as often
as the article makes out. I had a Beretta 92F, serial#
D40546Z that I put 20,000 rounds through before the frame
started to look a bit dubious so I sold it before it
disintegrated for good. I had two malfunctions, both when
the firing pin broke (probably due to excessive dry firing).
I've never known any 1911 go that long without jamming.
A lot of people criticise the US military for adopting the
Beretta, but if I had to choose a 9mm pistol in 1983, I would
have picked the Beretta. Early Glocks had problems (I had
one, serial# AB646). A lot of people say the SIG-Sauer P226
is better, but it's not, frankly, but it's smaller and fits
my hand better so I prefer it. But they do wear out faster.
I have a P226 in Belgium (serial# U506182) that has had
12,000 rounds through it and the frame is definitely on it's
last legs. Another 1,000 rounds and it will be scrap metal.
I actually owned one of the XM9 SIG-Sauer test pistols that
Saco Defense submitted to the DoD for testing. I bought it
off an ex-Saco Defense employee. Can't remember the serial
number off-hand but it was something like U85976, written
in stenciled italics on the frame. Compared to a
Beretta 92S of the same vintage it was definitely inferior.
The Beretta 92 had been around since 1975, whereas the
P226 was the P220 with a double-stack mag and it had a
lot of bugs in the design at that point. (BTW, there
is a mistake in the book Das Grosse SIG-Buch on the XM9
entry, the gun has matt black sights, not the dot and
bar contrast sights). The only P226s that actually
go back before serial# U100000 are the couple of dozen
XM9 pistols.
The US military definitely made the right decision, the
rest is all gun magazine nonsense and myth. The only
mistake really is that NATO insists on 9mm FMJ which
is ballistically anemic, but the Beretta was the best
choice.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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