DarthRevan
NES Member
Someone I know is interested in the Beretta (and only the Beretta) and I'm interested in helping them out. Problem is, I'm just a simple polymer brick fan so I don't know the first thing about these guns.
What's a 92? 92A1? 92FS? 92G? 92X? M9? M9A3? M9A4?
Are they all either blued or stainless?
Some are made in Italy vs USA vs France? Is there one that's better than the others or one to avoid?
What's a typical price for pre-ban mags? How do you even identify pre-bans?
They're all DA/SA, right?
Anything else I should know?
- 92?
- General name of the series/old original model designation
- Round Trigger Guard
- Heel magazine release
- 92A1?
- Updated with different recoil assembly, not personally sure whether or not it's better. plastic guide rod as well
- See the blue inside piece above, only version that uses this set up, everything else has the same locking block and resting spot for the recoil spring
- This was my first pistol in 2014ish, traded a base GP100 for it. Later sold it to buy a new 92FS Vertec around 2015-'16
- Has dovetailed front and rear sight, and a rail.
- Not great aftermarket support super limited holster choices for a pistol that generally already doesn't get many holster options
- 92FS?
- Base(d) model of the line. Has a lot of nomenclature variants which doesn't help people understand what's what.
- No rail, round trigger guard, permanent front sight
- No frills, goes bang accurately when needed
- 92G?
- Was for a little while a holy grail version of the 92FS for me
You can now get G conversion kits to make any of the 92s a "G", which is what I did to mine.The 92G-SD & 96G-SD were fitted only with a decocking device (no safety), which, when pressed down, disconnected the trigger, rotated the firing pin away, allowing the hammer to drop without causing an accidental discharge. When released, the decocker levers return to their normal firing position. The pistol was ready to fire at all times. Initially, the Beretta "G" configured guns were sold only to government law enforcement and military agencies. -Wikipedia
- 92X?
- New production of pistols to start integrating IDPA/USPSA shooters using the M9A3/92FS Vertec bones
- M9?
- Original mil-spec version
- Square trigger guard
- M9A3?
- What was Beretta's entry to compete against Sig's M17/18s
- M9A4?
- New hypetrain optics ready M9A3
- I might get one eventually
This is my baby...
The 92FS Vertec and M9A3s have the narrower back strap (no hump), dovetailed sights, mine has the G conversion, the replaced D-spring to lighten the trigger pulls, and swapped out all the plastic bits for metal (trigger, guide rod, mag release). Had a gunsmith fit some Trijicon HDs on it for me since they didn't have a specific model for it at the time.