Beretta 92F (Not FS)

Nice looking pistol.

Lucky Gunner has a history of the Beretta 92 Series

https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/guide-beretta-92/

Ernest Langdon on the Beretta 92 features, at about the :20 mark he talks about the F and S features.

I would have picked that up for $100 more. Looks good.

I know F to FS has a lot - if not entirely - to do with addressing broken slides in the Joint Service Pistol testing or slightly after.

There are almost as many opinions as to what exactly that entailed as there are parts in the slide.

Suffice it to say, if FSs do break, they are not supposed to assault the firer's face with loosened bits.

You are very unlikely to shoot it to failure so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I call your haul a fine score.

Todd.

If you want to make a quick buck I’ll give you $301 for it

Great deal!

The 92F was the original US military design. For the FS they altered the hammer pin so in the incredibly rare scenario that the slide broke it would not come back and hit you. You got a great price. The even earlier 92S surplus guns sell for $330 at Palmetto State Armory.

Very nice! I doubt itll ever appreciate to Python levels, so I say shoot it!

Olympus said:

Thanks. I’ve seen the 92S guns from AIM and pretty much all of them have been well worn. With this one supposedly being unfired, I may just let it be a safe queen. I already have a 92X anyway. But I just couldn’t pass this one up. I figured it at least had to be worth $300-$400. I looked up the serial number on the Beretta website and it came back as a 1989 model. I just think it’s pretty cool.

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Great deal would have bought that twice if I had the opportunity. If you shoot the pistol a lot. I mean 5000+ rounds you can replace the older locking block with the updated 92FS.

Nice! I picked one up a few years ago myself—I love the look of the straight dust cover. Another minor change in the FS is the contour of the backstrap—the FS curves in a bit more near the top to reduce trigger reach a bit.

So now, Olympus, time to make one of your gorgeous grip sets for the Beretta you just stole.

You got a great deal. Shoot it and enjoy the heck out of it!

Beauty. Congrats!

Oh I also recommend getting a D mainspring. They are super cheap easy to install and will lower the DA pull and are 100% reliable.

WVsig said:

Oh I also recommend getting a D mainspring. They are super cheap easy to install and will lower the DA pull and are 100% reliable.

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Absolutely. Another thing I would do is replace the tiny magazine release with the factory oversize release.

Olympus

You certainly got a great deal on that Beretta! I would love to have neighbors like that!

Really good price on an outstanding pistol. That pistol, in unfired condition, would easily go for somewhere between $500 and $600 on Gunbroker. What others have shared with you about the slide breakage issue and the military is correct to the best of my recollection. The unconfirmed rumor at the time was that the military took a one size fits all attitude with the Beretta service pistol and attempted to run these pistols with ammo intended for 9MM sub machine guns which was way too hot for any 9MM pistol of any make or description. People literally got hit in the face with the back half of the slide. To appease them, Beretta redesigned the pistol with a pin that prevented the back half of the slide coming back after fracture and hitting anyone. None of the pistols submitted in the trials after the RFP had this modification and none of them had any such issues. The field testing was rigorous. I’m sure there is more to it than any of us will never know, so I’m not gonna make any value judgments or cast any aspersions about the matter. This account is pretty much what the gun rags published back in the day.

I would take your pistol at that price in a New York minute and never look back! The 92 is old technology today and a good example of that period of time that many of us old codgers refer to as the Wonder Nine era. Today everything has to be polymer frame and striker fired or it’s considered a relic of the past. Well these folks are entitled to their opinion too. I promise you this: These “old relics” will send someone on to the next life quicker than you can blink. The 92 is highly reliable. I would not hesitate in using one to protect life and limb.

I paid more for a used M9 and have fired many rounds through with no problems, but after hearing about problems, I got an extra slide and barrel with the FS correction from Ebay. I'm still shooting with the original barrel slide and no problem. I did get an after market barrel on auction and put it in my spare slide, so I can switch out barrel/slide group as I please. The new barrel is stainless with ports.