Beretta 92 Longevity

[Hkmp5sd]

Don't forget the major difference between firearms you own and those in the military. In my experience, firearms handled by sailors were not very well taken care of. There is an old adage to make things "sailor proof" because they will play with, abuse and tear up anything. At 0200 in the morning on watch, all alone, a handgun is a nice toy to disassemble and tinker with. As a submarine's hull is round, I can remember serveral times divers had to go down to recover handguns, parts of handguns and ammunition from under the boat because the topside watch dropped them.

 

[Blacklabman]

My issue weapon in the service was the M9(92FS). I was USMC with a 1812 MOS.
We qualified with the M16A2 once a year, and with the M9 twice a year.

I recall a lot of complaints.The 92 is a big pistol to be a 9mm ,and we carried them in the field at all times in the old leather shoulder holsters.

I do not recall ,any malfunction's or parts problem with my companies M9's.
I was a also a PMI on the M9 and coached other companies within the Tank field and other unit's. Once again, no issues.

Buy the 92FS with confidence. Shoot all makes of ball and JHP ammo with confidence. If you want to use it in USPSA/IPSC put in a D spring and rock and roll.

To sum this up. The 92FS is a fine pistol that if taken care of, it will give you a lifetime of service.

 

[jubo]

I'm at around 5000 with mine... apparently no one gave it the memo cuz she's runnin like new (cept the trigger is waaay nicer now that its 'broken' in... ya... thats the only time the 'b' word gets mentioned around a 92)
I totally agree with what was said earlier... if they were truly junk, the army woulda junked em years ago.

 

[cyanide]

Fact is no one ever has had a slide come off and hit them in the face.

Except on TV

And it is pure BS that a Navy Seal would leave the service because of it.

They would just carry a different handgun ---- period.

 

[Confederate]

Now I never said a Seal left the Navy because of it. I said the person in charge of Navy small arms aquisition told me he was retiring because higher ups weren't listening to his warnings about the M9. And you're wrong about no one ever being hit in the face by a slide. There actually were three that I heard about, perhaps more. I was told later that they were using "machine gun ammo" that was intended for stronger guns, but this was denied by the person I spoke with.

That Beretta fixed the design shows that they were reacting to a known problem. Just how extensive the problem was, I don't pretend to know.

 

[2ndamd]

I don't know about the M9 or 92 but, the Px4 storm in .40 has a service life of 30,000 rounds and the barrel for 40,000 per Beretta.