VPD switching to SIG
- Thread starter avsecb2
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Nicholls is why I don't own a Sig, Beretta, or HK.
I had to deal with whatsisname, Josee? from Nicholls on a Springfield warranty issue, (10 bad XD mags) and I flogged the gun the instant I got a fix for the mags (from popurheadoff, NOT josee).
Nicholls sucks. Never again.
Out of curiousity, who is the Glock importer?
I had to deal with whatsisname, Josee? from Nicholls on a Springfield warranty issue, (10 bad XD mags) and I flogged the gun the instant I got a fix for the mags (from popurheadoff, NOT josee).
Nicholls sucks. Never again.
Out of curiousity, who is the Glock importer?
My question is, where does Stoeger Canada get theirs? From the US, or from Nicholls? To whom do you go for warranty help? Stoeger or R Nicholls.
If a manufacturer deals with Nicholls, they don't want my business.
If a manufacturer deals with Nicholls, they don't want my business.
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
Slavex said:
Sounds like here. Beretta doesn't even have a UK police sales rep anymore. West Midlands police bought them back around 1990 to replace their revolvers, they still use them, but the distributor (Gunmark) stopped handling handguns when they were banned, so West Mids police have precisely zero backup. You should see their guns, they are totally clapped out. I heard they were going to the P226 but they haven't got the money.
It just never ceases to amaze me that the second largest police force in the UK is using a pistol that has had no spare parts availability for eight years now.
So what do you think of the Beretta 96, Slavex?
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
redleg said:
I have to say I'm amazed by that statement, I've put over 20,000 rounds though a 92F without a problem. In fact I was talking to a guy at a rental range in the US where I rented a 92FS last month, and he said it had had a huge number of rounds through it. My complaint was that the feed ramp had worn vertical.
I can understand that locking blocks may break before 20,000 rounds, but consistently?
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It's only because TSEJR pours abrasive compounds on Beretta's to get them to fail..... 
(kidding)
It's funny rental ranges I know in the USA report all sorts of different stats. Some love their Beretta's others hate them, some love their Glocks, others their Sigs. There is no consistency that I can find in any of them.
As for my opinion on the 96? well honestly the only one to get is the Elite II or other Brig slide ones. Although that said my old Italian 96 has over 160,000 rounds through it and I just replaced the locking block this past summer. It's only had 2 or 3 recoil springs in it, and a couple dozen shock buffs. At one point I still had all the empty boxes of ammo and reloading supplies I put through it while I was on compo, but that was all lost during the last major flood in my parents basement.
Somewhere around the 130,000 mark I had to replace the slide as the one that it came with cracked. Of course it cracked after I put a bushing in it to try and make it more accurate. Having looked back at how I shot though, I know the problem wasn't the gun so much as it was me.
My current competition gun is sitting around 40,000 rounds of 9mm and might be as high as 60,000. I'd have to add everything up. Figure 1000 rounds a week for 6 or 7 months a year, and then 1000 a month in the off season (minimum) for the last 3 years. Plus all the screwing around ammo I've put through it. Parts tally? maybe 6 or 7 recoil springs, and a couple other spring replacements.
But in closing, yes in good conscience I can't recommend the standard slide version of the 96, and honestly I think the .40 is a useless round anyhow, except for maybe Standard Div. in ISPC, and maybe in Production if you can live with shooting wimpy powder puff loads and still feel good about yourself
(kidding)It's funny rental ranges I know in the USA report all sorts of different stats. Some love their Beretta's others hate them, some love their Glocks, others their Sigs. There is no consistency that I can find in any of them.
As for my opinion on the 96? well honestly the only one to get is the Elite II or other Brig slide ones. Although that said my old Italian 96 has over 160,000 rounds through it and I just replaced the locking block this past summer. It's only had 2 or 3 recoil springs in it, and a couple dozen shock buffs. At one point I still had all the empty boxes of ammo and reloading supplies I put through it while I was on compo, but that was all lost during the last major flood in my parents basement.
Somewhere around the 130,000 mark I had to replace the slide as the one that it came with cracked. Of course it cracked after I put a bushing in it to try and make it more accurate. Having looked back at how I shot though, I know the problem wasn't the gun so much as it was me.
My current competition gun is sitting around 40,000 rounds of 9mm and might be as high as 60,000. I'd have to add everything up. Figure 1000 rounds a week for 6 or 7 months a year, and then 1000 a month in the off season (minimum) for the last 3 years. Plus all the screwing around ammo I've put through it. Parts tally? maybe 6 or 7 recoil springs, and a couple other spring replacements.
But in closing, yes in good conscience I can't recommend the standard slide version of the 96, and honestly I think the .40 is a useless round anyhow, except for maybe Standard Div. in ISPC, and maybe in Production if you can live with shooting wimpy powder puff loads and still feel good about yourself
