Hi Max,
You and I have different impressions of the FS92/M9 as I never had
any mag failures but I never practiced fast mag changes like you
either. Of course, with your military needs I can see how you would
be critical of the mag problems.
My FS did come with 3 quality all metal mags, and while doing
range shooting at paper targets there were never any problems. I keep
the gun loaded with a 18 rd (IIRC) mag - if I can't defuse a problem
with all those 9mm rounds I need something besides a pistol.
Larry
On 11/07/2017 3:27 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
That looks to be the same pistol that is standard issue military now. I
was not impressed with them, they did not stand up well to hard use
(magazines). The military magazines were cheap, had plastic cap on the
bottom to hold the spring in and after the mag was dropped on the deck too
many times, that plastic would crack and finally break (usually when you
were inserting a fresh magazine) and then all the ammo would just dump out
onto the ground. Very frustrating during range time, deadly under combat
conditions. If you can get higher quality magazines with all metal
construction, do that. The few armorers that I talked with about them also
did not like them much. They are easy to field strip and clean, which is a
plus.
In addition, the recoil (when shooting military ball which was probably
P+P) was not to my liking, too much muzzle climb. My hand was a little too
small for the grips, so I had to pay close attention to always get the same
hand position for accurate shooting, and then the safety lever and the
slide release were hard to reach single-handed. In order to release the
safety, I had to shift my hand to reach it and then shift back, which I
hated doing.
My only comparisons against which I measure this pistol is against a
Browning Hi Power (superb, but very expensive) or against a 1911 .45, which
kicks like hell but has the stopping power to go with that kick, so a good
trade-off for a military weapon. My hand fit both of those pistols very
well.
I would never purchase one more for the hand fitment issue than anything
else.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
I was giving some thought to buying a Beretta 92 FS.
Any fellow listers familiar with this pistol, or have some direct
experience they might want to share?
Thanks,
Dan
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