I have a Beretta 92 and got the .22 conversion kit that Beretta makes for it which cost $350... it's well made, always feeds and extracts, but I get 1 failure-to-fire for every mag (10 round). At first I thought I got bad ammo (some of it is from an inheritance, my Dad's old ammo he never used and it's got to be 40 years old, if you can believe that) but it happens with brand new ammo too - the ammo type doesn't seem to matter. I know the problem is light strikes because just pulling the trigger again on the same shell, always fires the round.
(I am using the factory hammer spring, (no "D" spring or any other lightened hammer spring)
I have read other posts about the .22 conversion that mention the same problem so it seems to be pretty common... no one mentions a fix - and the common advice seems to be "just pull the trigger again and leave it be, don't try a fix because that's just how it is..."
Would lightening the firing pin help the light strikes? What about polishing the FP or lightening the return spring on the firing pin?
(If I had it to do over again I think I would just buy $350 of 9 mm ammo instead of getting this expensive kit that doesn't even work right...)
(I am using the factory hammer spring, (no "D" spring or any other lightened hammer spring)
I have read other posts about the .22 conversion that mention the same problem so it seems to be pretty common... no one mentions a fix - and the common advice seems to be "just pull the trigger again and leave it be, don't try a fix because that's just how it is..."
Would lightening the firing pin help the light strikes? What about polishing the FP or lightening the return spring on the firing pin?
(If I had it to do over again I think I would just buy $350 of 9 mm ammo instead of getting this expensive kit that doesn't even work right...)
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