how to mount reddot to beretta 92fs?
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In Mexico, we were quite happy with sight-mount.com. Suppressors are legal in Mexico. So many people who have a decent pistol (most don't) sometimes think about a suppressor. It's sort of fun blasting down multiple pepper poppers and the clang from the bullet impacts is louder than the shots.
Iron sights often don't really clear the suppressor and when they do, they are tall and uber-ugly. At least, to me. Red Dot's can get you a point to aim at that clears the suppressor.
The sight-mount sight requires a hole to be drilled and tapped -- at least on the Glock (I'm tempted to put one on my own Beretta 92fs here in Canada). Oh, and you have to order the particular mount for the style of pistol you are using. They make them for Glocks, Berettas, Sigs, 1911's and just about everything else I think. At the time I took these photos I did not yet have the stabilizing hole drilled into my slide and yet everything worked great anyway.
The sight-mount mount allows you to have nice (fixed) iron sights, that allow you to instantly install your Red Dot on top of. I liked the set-up very much. I did it on my own Glock, which I never did suppress, but after I experimented with the sight-mount sight several others of my friends did buy one for guns they were suppressing.
Certainly, at the time, it was a nice set-up. When I get back to Mexico on a more fulltime basis I probably won't go down the Glock road. I think I'll do the Beretta 92fs thing. The one I have here in Canada is decent, and I'm working on some customizations (G-Model safety, Short trigger, some frame dehorning etc.) that make the gun more comfortable for me so I'll probably look for one down there as well and customize the two equally. And the sight-mount sight system is definitely something I'm considering getting for my Beretta up here as well. I've added the photos I have of the one that was on our Mexican Glock so you can check it out.
Iron sights often don't really clear the suppressor and when they do, they are tall and uber-ugly. At least, to me. Red Dot's can get you a point to aim at that clears the suppressor.
The sight-mount sight requires a hole to be drilled and tapped -- at least on the Glock (I'm tempted to put one on my own Beretta 92fs here in Canada). Oh, and you have to order the particular mount for the style of pistol you are using. They make them for Glocks, Berettas, Sigs, 1911's and just about everything else I think. At the time I took these photos I did not yet have the stabilizing hole drilled into my slide and yet everything worked great anyway.
The sight-mount mount allows you to have nice (fixed) iron sights, that allow you to instantly install your Red Dot on top of. I liked the set-up very much. I did it on my own Glock, which I never did suppress, but after I experimented with the sight-mount sight several others of my friends did buy one for guns they were suppressing.
Certainly, at the time, it was a nice set-up. When I get back to Mexico on a more fulltime basis I probably won't go down the Glock road. I think I'll do the Beretta 92fs thing. The one I have here in Canada is decent, and I'm working on some customizations (G-Model safety, Short trigger, some frame dehorning etc.) that make the gun more comfortable for me so I'll probably look for one down there as well and customize the two equally. And the sight-mount sight system is definitely something I'm considering getting for my Beretta up here as well. I've added the photos I have of the one that was on our Mexican Glock so you can check it out.
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In Mexico, we were quite happy with sight-mount.com. Suppressors are legal in Mexico. So many people who have a decent pistol (most don't) sometimes think about a suppressor. It's sort of fun blasting down multiple pepper poppers and the clang from the bullet impacts is louder than the shots.
Iron sights often don't really clear the suppressor and when they do, they are tall and uber-ugly. At least, to me. Red Dot's can get you a point to aim at that clears the suppressor.
The sight-mount sight requires a hole to be drilled and tapped -- at least on the Glock (I'm tempted to put one on my own Beretta 92fs here in Canada). Oh, and you have to order the particular mount for the style of pistol you are using. They make them for Glocks, Berettas, Sigs, 1911's and just about everything else I think. At the time I took these photos I did not yet have the stabilizing hole drilled into my slide and yet everything worked great anyway.
The sight-mount mount allows you to have nice (fixed) iron sights, that allow you to instantly install your Red Dot on top of. I liked the set-up very much. I did it on my own Glock, which I never did suppress, but after I experimented with the sight-mount sight several others of my friends did buy one for guns they were suppressing.
Certainly, at the time, it was a nice set-up. When I get back to Mexico on a more fulltime basis I probably won't go down the Glock road. I think I'll do the Beretta 92fs thing. The one I have here in Canada is decent, and I'm working on some customizations (G-Model safety, Short trigger, some frame dehorning etc.) that make the gun more comfortable for me so I'll probably look for one down there as well and customize the two equally. And the sight-mount sight system is definitely something I'm considering getting for my Beretta up here as well. I've added the photos I have of the one that was on our Mexican Glock so you can check it out.
very nice setup! thanks for the info
No. Not actually. If you are rich and connected, you can "buy" a permit to carry concealed a small .380 ACP or if you are really connected, a snubby .38 Special. That permit has to be renewed each year, and it costs a lot. Around 10 grand Cdn./year last time I talked to someone who had such a permit.
In San Miguel de Allende, since about 2008 (when the Cartel threw hand grenades into a crowd of women and children in Michoacan during an Independence Day celebration), the local Police Chief told all the Club members at a quick meeting near his office who had "to and from the range" transport permits and who were running businesses within the town -- small or large, he wasn't too particular -- that they could carry while on business because the law-and-order had gone straight to hell. He made it clear he wanted no BS with flashing the guns, road rage incidents, drinking in the bar and showing off to the girls, etc., etc. and that practice continues to this day.
Anyway, if you get caught carrying a legally registered .38 Special or .380 ACP and you are in a Club and you have the "to and from" the range permit but you were carrying it loaded and not on the direct route to the range and the gun was on your person but you had not threatened anybody or committed any other crime and were just caught through bad luck -- a good lawyer will get you off and get your gun back because that's basically a misdemeanor unless your smart mouth makes it more. However, getting caught with an unregistered .38 Special or .380 with no Club permits backing you up would not end as well.
A little further down in this same section of the forum (Pistols and Revolvers) friend Wally has a post about registering a revolver in Mexico. It gives a pretty good impression of the hoops that have to be jumped through to do that. Mexico is by no means the ideal world Canadians and Americans often think it is, Mexico has it's own problems. But unless Pierre can get in and unfreeze the handgun freeze, Mexico is already a few points up on Canada right now. Maybe more than a few points -- especially if you speak Spanish and already understand the "Mexican way" of doing things because the quality of life is just better unless you are really poor. But then again, Canada does have free Radiation Therapy if you can get through all the gatekeepers to actually get it. If you need it.
...and don't speak Spanish. That's what screws you. Tourists don't realize how bad, and ex-pats who don't speak also don't realize how often they are themselves being screwed over. It takes years to speak well, and over those years, one learns crap. What stuff's really worth, what a plumber really costs, and how much stuff might be marked up in a market. In English you won't learn much at all. Except from other ex-pats and they don't know much but they sure share an awful lot of urban legends.
