A Few Hundred Thousand Rounds Later

A quick break down of a few the the things a few 100k rounds taught me about beretta pistols.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Beretta
• 92
• Elite 2
• 9mm
• 92g
• IDPA
• IPSC

[mr00jimbo]

Thank-you for the video. What would you say the actual frame/slide life is of the 92FS aluminum alloy frame pistol? I keep hearing 35k rounds and that the aluminum doesn't hold up. Tips for keeping these guns and frames past 100k? Lubricate the hell out of the slide rails? Spring replacements?

[Elbeno007]

@mr00jimbo

35K is is pretty short life! I haven't had any of them break that soon.

I would use a grease lubricant (I prefer "slide glide") instead of oil. You can really tell a difference when shooting that gun that it is much softening it up. Changing spring weights to something lighter would shorten the life of the gun I would think. Really, these guns should last 100k.. I have one that is over that now and hasn't had any issues.

[jeffjohnson801]

have you had much use with the PX4?

Thanks 4 the vid

[Elbeno007]

Sorry man... I haven't shot the Px4 near as much as the 92... but I don't see why it wouldnt work out well.

[IamComatzd]

According to the most recent USPSA rulebook, side-to-side magwell flaring may be up to 1/4" bigger than the size of the magazine and front-to-back may be more than 1/4" bigger.

I don't know about the IDPA rules though.

[Elbeno007]

Yeah sorry about that.. I meant 1/8th inch on each side of the mag... for a total of 1/4 inch

[mr00jimbo]

@Elbeno007 Thank-you, you have really sold me on Beretta's durability. Lot of misinformation about the Beretta's durability out there!

[eddiejr74]

cont.--obviously not all guns have it or in the same place so I don't get myself used to it. I also wanted to know if there are better sights than the Novaks as mine aim very high? Only thing I've done to it is add more mags. What advice might you be able to give me about that and anything else about tuning it, upgrading it & using it for IDPA? Any info would be nice and you can just pm me to make it easier, thanks.

[eddiejr74]

Sir, you are one of the very few I have found with an Elite 2 on YouTube! Thank you for the vid, I have had mine for about 8 years or so with about 5k+ rounds through it and have never had 1 problem with mine! Not a ftf or fte by fault of the gun, had 1 fte by a weird very old reload my brother gave me. I am looking to use mine for IDPA soon and wanted to know what can be done about the de-cocker, it digs into my palm with every speed reload and rack cuz I don't use the slide release by habit--

[TrackSol]

Thanks for the video.

[kshannon48]

Thanks for the vid bro, it's very helpful. I recently acquired a 1970's production 92FS Police Special NIB. It came with two mags but I would like to purchase additional mags and I liked your demonstration of the mec-gar product. But I wanted to know which finish you are using... The blue or phosphate? Thanks.

[SSSDiaz7]

@Elbeno007 I was told by the person who did the transfer job on My first 92fs in standard black to take it easy for the first session or two and not to exceeed 100-150 rounds for the "break in", funny thing I bought a case of federal 1,000 rounds + about 250 rounds in seperate 50rd boxes and fired it all in the span of 3 weeks, after the 1250 round mark I went to a range that allowed rapid fire, without cleaning, or lubing at all and went through 100 rounds rapid, not a hiccup.

[kaaajeee]

do you conceal carry berettas also?