Opinion on current production Beretta 92fs?

QUOTE: The Army is switching away from this weapon partially due to the fact they are having reliability issues with it.

What, it took them over three decades to find this out? I doubt that the Army is just now discovering "reliability issues" with the Beretta pistol. It's just as reliable now as it was then-very. If you have verifiable information to the contrary, I'd appreciate you sharing same.
 
They claim it's the frame life that is most troubling. The Army is getting about 10,000 rounds out of the M9, and they want triple that number.
 
I've owned several 92FS/M9 pistols over the years and have fired a combined total of well over 20,000 rounds through them. I have never experienced a single stoppage, although admittedly I do clean my guns on occasion and don't play in a big sandbox. As the OP is already aware they're not ideal carry guns, but for a range gun or home defense firearm they are hard to beat. I've never owned another weapons system that was 100% reliable over that many rounds.

From what I can tell the new ones are made just as good as the older ones, so if you want a commercial M9 then go for it.
 
t4terrific, Beretta's testing has shown that the average frame life of an M9 is over 30,000 rounds, and the slide life is over 35,000 rounds. They only stopped there because those are the round counts where the Army stops testing.

If you do a search, you'll see that plenty of Berettas have gone past 100k. Of course, that is with rebuilding and replacing parts when they need to be replaced.
 
t4terrific said:
The Army is getting about 10,000 rounds out of the M9, and they want triple that number.
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Would you might sourcing this claim? I'm a big Beretta fan, that is in direct contravention to any source I've ever seen, which puts them at conservatively 30k, and there are plenty of anecdotal accounts of 92-series pistols hitting six-figure round counts.

It's no G17 in terms of frame longevity, but certainly better than 10k.
 
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