Broke my M9-22 again...

sota said:

Bought the gun November of 2015

August of 2017 (21 months), with ~3500 rounds down the pipe, this happened:

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Safety lever broke in half.

July 2nd of 2019 (23 months), with another ~3100 rounds down town, it broke again:

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Slide is going back to Beretta tomorrow, for another safety lever install.

I still love shooting the gun, but this is going to get annoying if it keeps happening about every 2 years.

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Probably due to hammer impact during decocking. A common problem on old Walthers, which is why Walther collectors NEVER decock, but lower the hammer the old fashion way, preferably on an empty chamber.

Ive pretty much stopped using decockers on anything but SIGs.

Hope they get it fixed up for ya!

sota said:

thing is, I'm not decocking all that much.

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Its still a hard metal-on-metal contact, and all the machined sharp edges create stress risers.

My buddy just snapped off the hammer on his brand-new Bersa Thunder the first time he decocked it.

Its rare in the industry as a whole, but it happens. Just conjecture based on the design of the M92 safety, I have no specific antedotal information on the .22 version, but it looks similiar.

Might give Wilson Combat a call and see if their drop-in Low Profile Safety unit will fit the .22.

I believe these are made my Umarex and not Beretta. Which is likely 100% of the problem.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Probably due to hammer impact during decocking. A common problem on old Walthers, which is why Walther collectors NEVER decock, but lower the hammer the old fashion way, preferably on an empty chamber.

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I hate the idea of decocking (dropping the hammer on the safety bar). That's why I removed the hammer release lever on my Beretta 92's and replaced it with the spacer from the "D" version. When the safety is applied, the hammer remains cocked. Then you can ease the hammer down safely by pulling the trigger while riding the hammer with the thumb. Move the safety to "fire" and you can fire the first shot double action as normal. Or cock it by hand.

I wish there was an equally simple way of doing the same thing with my Walther P1's.