advantages/disadvantages? thanks.
2007-02-02 03:18:29 · 7 answers · asked by firestarter 5 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
This is a top shelf gun. It's has a smooth design, puts bullets on target up to 50yrds easy and is the safest handgun you can buy. When on safe it can not fire at all. I mean never. With other pistol you can defeat the safe switch, but noy a beretta. The 9mm round can kill in one not in body armor. Unless your a cop or in the military 9mm is a good round.
The fs model don't have a light rail on it. About 80% of shooting happen at night. If this is a home defense gun you might want to get the M9 model instead and get a surelight on it.
2007-02-05 11:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by green_steven724 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're pretty smooth-operating guns, and they have a reputation for reliability and accuracy, though some of them have been known to develop cracks in the slide at the point where the locking blocks of the pistol's recoil system engage the slide. (Several injuries were noted in the 1980s when the slide fractured and the back half proceeded to rocket off the frame and strike the poor serviceperson shooting the pistol. Beretta's solution was to engineer the slide so it doesn't fly off the frame should it fracture.) They also have a slide-mounted safety, which is nice if you're used to it, and a pain if you're used to a Browning-style frame-mounted safety. However, they do come with quite a steep price-tag.
A gun to consider, if one is seriously looking at the Beretta 92FS would be the Taurus PT92, which is a near-clone (licensed reproduction) of the Beretta 92. (Beretta used to have a factory in Brazil when Brazil's armed forces decided to switch over to the 9mm NATO standard in the 1970s, but Taurus bought the factory in the 1980s.) The PT92 has a slightly thinner barrel and slightly thicker slide than the Beretta 92 (doing away with the cracking problem) and uses a frame-mounted safety, rather than Beretta's slide-mounted safety. The Taurus offering is also much less expensive than the Beretta (less chrome, a standard blue finish, rather than Beretta's proprietary finish.)
2007-02-02 05:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sam D 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I absolutely hate the Beretta and Taurus 92's due to design. They are overcomplicated and why in the hell is half the slide missing. There will soon be alot M9's out there since the US Military is doing away with them. I really don't like beretta handguns much at all do to cost and reliability.
2007-02-03 12:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by jmmccollum 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nice, smooth operating gun. Expensive but high quality. I would get a shock buffer AFTER break-in to protect the integrity of the frame when RANGE SHOOTING ONLY.
2007-02-02 03:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by david m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Too expensive, other guns perform as well for much less.
2007-02-02 03:28:42 · answer #5 · answered by littleman77y 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i am in the military and thats what i pack and i hope i never have to shoot anyone with it i dont like it 9mm is to small for us here
2007-02-02 23:23:52 · answer #6 · answered by chad s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
simply said...their are better guns for the money.
2007-02-02 13:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by Spades Of Columbia 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋