Beretta vs BHP

[Ghostrider_23]

I want to get a full size 9mm and have narrowed it down to two chioces:

Beretta 90-two DA/SA

and

Bowning Hi-power SAO

Both pistols feel great in the hand and both have seen conflict. Can anyone help me make this decission???

Please vote and explain why you went with your pick.

 

[10-Ring]

BHP!

 

[wally]

BHP. I've never been able to like DA/SA guns because of the DA to SA transition.

--wally.

 

[Dave Dembinski]

Have you gotten to fire both?

 

[Walkalong]

BHP. It's a better platform for the 9mm than the Beretta. The Beretta is just too big for a 9MM. The BHP fits the hand better. It's lighter and smaller, single action. etc. No contest for me.

 

[wrangler5]

My BHP with Hogue grips fits my hand better than any other full size auto. The Beretta 92 is too big for my hand, and trigger reach for double action is uncomfortably long. Not sure how that compares to the 90-two, though.

 

[Northslope Nimrod]

BHP
Its beauty is in its simplicity.
Slim and sleek design.
The Berettas are chunky to look at and too chunky for my small hands.

 

[Ghostrider_23]

CZ

I hear people say that the Browning shoot and act like the CZ 75, is this a true and fair statement???? I have a CZ 85B and don't really care for it.

 

[AndyC]

"Shoots and acts like a CZ" - care to be a bit more specific as to what exactly you're asking?

As for the poll, BHP is my preference.

 

[Unforgiven826]

I hear people say that the Browning shoot and act like the CZ 75, is this a true and fair statement???? I have a CZ 85B and don't really care for it.

I would have to say it is the other way around being that CZ is more or less designed after the HP platform. I love my Hi-Power and my Beretta's a 92F and a PX4 storm. Each has it's own purpose. I would recommend not buying a gun until you Shoot some different guns and find what fits you the best. If I had to pick just one of my 9mm guns I would keep the Hi-Power cause I can shoot it the best.

 

[Chupacabra]

I like both, but the Hi-Power is a little better IMO. The grip is a bit slimmer and has the same magazine capacity as the Beretta (15+1, but there are 17 round mags available for the 92). The safety on the HP is in a better place (I can't stand slide-mounted safeties) and it's single action only.

You can't really go wrong with either. Both are accurate, quality firearms.

CZs and Sigs are great guns too.

 

[Black Adder LXX]

I prefer the 90-two. I like the size for the range, and the feel is great. I've had over 2000 rounds through mine without the slightest hitch...

 

[Boats]

The BHP is the perfect double stack 9mm---

---For those with girly hands and who hate decent SAO triggers. Ironically, the SA pull on the Beretta 92FS, and I imagine the same is true for the Dash as well, is better than the stock pull of a BHP. No mag disconnect on any Berettas either.

If you have long fingers, or if you have a generous web of skin between your thumb and trigger finger, you're gonna hate the BHP when the trigger reach is too short and the hammer and/or slide is doing its level best to extract a pound of flesh off of you because the grip tang is useless for saving you from the standard operation of the pistol. Especially beware of the BHP if the one you are looking at has a spur hammer rather than a ring hammer unless you are into spontaneous skin piercings.

It is obvious, especially from the standpoint of the advent of the 90-Two and its interchangeable grip offerings, that Beretta has put much more evolutionary refinement into their offering than has FN/Browning put into the BHP.

Nearly 70 years have gone by and the BHP is still rather crude in its hand biting ways.

For every shooter who says the Beretta is "too big" in the grip, if that is not true to your own experience, you can pretty much bet that you're in for the slide overruning your skin on a BHP. It'd just be a matter of time.

 

[wrench]

I have not shot the new beretta, but I do have a couple of the old 92s. For the range, for fun, the BHP wins everytime. Not that it's more accurate than the berettas, but it just fits my hands like it was made for me. Never bites, no matter which hammer it has. Shoot them both, then decide.
I think it's a toss up which one is better lookin'

 

[Ghost Tracker]

No Question for Me...Pick a BHP. If you're like the vast majority of shooters, you'll find you're more accurate with the Hi-Power. But I have to be honest. I have NOT handled & shot the Beretta 90-Two.

Hand size & configuration DOES make a difference in YOUR "best" pick. But for me, there's NOTHING like the feel of my Hi-Power.

 

[mbt2001]

Either... both a great guns. Which one feels the best when you hold it? Which one points best for you?

 

[yongxingfreesty]

own both, most def BHP.


edit: realized you were interested in the 90-two. never shot it, but i'd prob still pick the BHP.

 

[jaydubya]

BHP. I bought my T-series in 1967 at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Exchange, San Diego, and carried it on two flying cruises to Vietnam. It then sat in my sock drawer for thirty years, still loaded with Navy FMJ. Three years ago, I pulled it out and began shooting it again. There is nothing like it, but as built it had its faults -- particularly the safety. Very indecisive. I replaced it with a much better one. (The safeties on later versions are quite positive).
Cordially, Jack

 

[kesmed2001]

WWJMB do?

Hi-Power all the way.

I have a Beretta Elite II that I bought a while back and will be selling it so I can buy another Browning MkIII.

I should have bought 2 of the FN HPs when they were on closeout at CDNN...:banghead:

 

[Koblenz]

I used to own a Beretta 92 but sold it due to the fat grip. It was just too fat for my hand.

I currently own the BHP, and it is an excellent pistol. I have no plans to sell it.

 

[Boats]

JMBs involvement with what became the P35 has been greatly exaggerated over the years. It shouldn't be a purchasing factor anyways.

 

[Koblenz]

The grip is a bit slimmer and has the same magazine capacity as the Beretta (15+1,

I have read reports of functioning problems with the 15 round Hi Power magazines. It might be best to stick with the 13 round mags. To fit the extra two rounds in the 15 round mags, the follower had to be shortened. But this makes the follower suceptible to jamming.

Another word of caution, be sure you buy a Hi Power that is of relatively recent manufacture. Vintage Hi Powers often don't feed hollow points.

 

[ftierson]

I like the BHP...

However, I recommend that you find a used Beretta 8000F Cougar and hold it in your hand before buying either of the others...

You might want to try a Beretta PX4 too...

If everything else was equal (which it never is, of course ), I'd bet that you'd pick the Cougar or PX4 over the BHP...

Forrest

 

[Chupacabra]

I have read reports of functioning problems with the 15 round Hi Power magazines. It might be best to stick with the 13 round mags. To fit the extra two rounds in the 15 round mags, the follower had to be shortened. But this makes the follower suceptible to jamming.

If you get quality magazines, you'll be okay.

I have two Mec-Gar 15 round magazines and they have functioned flawlessly. They even survived a week long handgun course where I put maybe 500 to 600 rounds through each one. Zero problems all week.

The only problems I've had with my HP were with the the two 13 round stock magazines that came with the gun. Those started failing to lock the slide back about six months after I bought the gun. They have since had their springs upgraded, problem solved.

YMMV

 

[Geronimo45]

Beretta... I really like DA/SA autos.