BERETTA...what happened to you???

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Pietro Beretta

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Today on St.Patties day, I was a very lucky man. I bought a mint condition used pistol from Ellwood Epps in orillia. A Beretta 96 Inox .40 S&W like NIB with box, mags, owners manual, etc. I got the deal for a steal... HELL YHAAA!!!!!!!!

Now I'm the proud owner of two fine Beretta's...a blue 9, and a stainless .40. I consider myself lucky, especially now with Beretta trying to pass off those 90-two's as a respectable pistol..hah aha ha....dumb a*ses

I feel sorry for anyone who has to face the facts, knowing that their time has past on getting themselves a REAL Beretta...even the M9A1 is pushing it, but I'd probally still buy one.

.....what I'm trying to say is that the 90-Two can lick my sweaty sack!!!

Pietro Beretta 92.F 9mm blue steel
U.S Beretta 96.FS .40 S&W Inox/stainless

This is Beretta County :)
 
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Personally, after owning a few 92 series Berettas over the years I don't have much use for them anymore... Gimme a BHP any day of the week, thanks... ;) :D
 
To each his own:confused: .. Glad u got a good deal on it. :slap: I would consider one but only if it were free and even then serious thought would be involved:D
dB
 
Have yet to shoot a Beretta ... Have fondled 3 of them (a 92 model, a storm and a 12(6) whose model I can't recall right now, thanks Slawek, if you're a member)... But have yet to fire any of them.
 
Ditto, boys.
I have owned hundreds of pistols, and the only make that doesn't grace my cabinet at the moment is Beretta.
Love and appreciate my various and sundry Sigs, Glocks, H&K...etc...
Berettas are the only ones that don't do SOMETHING...fit and finish, trigger,
accuracy...well enough for me to keep and use.
Let the flame/ thread hijack/ whatever commence/continue/die without a whimper.....
 
Glock was a first centerfire handgun I've ever shot... didn't like it than and don't like it now...

HK's always felt like a 2x4...

Sigs are nice, I like mine, but I love my Beretta ;)
 
Beretta handgun's, especially the 92-series, seem to be the most polarizing pistols around. People either love or hate them. There is rarely any middle ground. I personally fall into the former category. While I stray every once in a while to other brands and styles of pistols, I always seem to come home to Beretta. They just "do it" for me.
 
I love the 92; it looks great and it's also the most reliable handgun I ever came across; it eats everything I load it with; factory, reloads, makes no diff. I never had a load the gun didn’t like! As long as there’s enough powder in the case to cycle the slide it will work 100%. You can limp wrist it all you want, won’t make a difference. ;) And the gun will do that right out of the box with no brake in period, tinkering or gunsmith work. Not that many guns will do that… :cool:
 
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i've only got 2 9mm pistols -a beretta 92sb and the tokarev- the tok won't seat and fire an overlength round, the beretta will- i've had to replace the locking block once, had the safety fixed, but that's been it- it's pretty reliable with most of my reloads, but i didn't get it new and have no idea how many rounds through before i got it
 
Beretta has definitely gone to ####. There are a lot of 'management' type people who destroy a lot of great companies because they insist on 'modernizing'. I like Sigs idea, not to set a deadline, but set goals. Making some goofy lookin space age crap doesn't sell pistols, reliability and quality does. M9's will eat anything you feed them, and are plenty accurate for their designed purpose. Want a target pistol? Go buy one. 92's are built strong and reliable. The 'new' and 'improved' Beretta's will put them out of business. A shame to waste five centuries of hard work. I love my 92, but my Sig gets a lot more excercise these days. Much easier to shoot well.
Here's hoping the owners @ Beretta wake up .
 
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To each his own:confused: .. Glad u got a good deal on it. :slap: I would consider one but only if it were free and even then serious thought would be involved:D
dB
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and how much ammo was in the deal
 
Back in the early 90's the Beretta 92FS was my favored pistol due to its prolific use by Chow Yun Fat in Hong Kong Bullet ballet movies, also Bruce and Mel used it in US movies too.

I owned an Italian made 92FS at one point...much better quality than a US one I owned a little later. The Italian pistols had much better metal finishing and the finish was a satin black. The US one's black finish was 'powdery' by comparison. Also back then the 92 FS dust cover was straight and not slanted like today's. All the parts except grips were metal and finely finished.

The slide was glass smooth when you racked it and trigger pulls while a little heavy was very crisp and good. Accuracy was excellent and they were reliable. 4 years ago I played with some then new US 92FS and the triggers were gritty and the finish was crap. The new 90 Two is in my opinion a clunky piece of crap. While the old 92FS was big it had clean and elegant lines.

I find this a trend, pistols losing their clean lines and also losing the fine fitting and finish they used to have a mere 15 years ago. The light rail on Sigs does this, and the new P99 lacks the elegance of the original version.

I think the magazine cap was the killing blow in my interest in the 92, I hate neutered mags in a big gun with 'fat mags'. I eventually sold my 92's.

If you can get your hand on a single stack 92 FS type M, BUY IT. I stupidly sold a 92SB compact type M years ago and regretted since...superb trigger, more accurate than the big one and slim grip....we all are dumb when we're young.

Congratulations on your 'old style' 92's. While big they do represent a highpoint on the old elegance of pistols before the obsession with 'tacticalness' destroyed pistols clean lines forever. The INOX is sheer elegance where Beretta's are concerned...good taste you have there!
 
The Beretta 92FS I owned was a wonderful pistol...plenty accurate, absolutely reliable and easy to hit with. The slide motion was like glass. I was very impressed with it. :)
 
^92's grip is not much larger than P226's ;) I've handled NP22 with Houge grip and I thought I was holding a Beretta it felt pretty much the same (every bit as big)!

but some aftermarket grips for the 92 definitely make the gun feel larger.
 
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