[carbineone]

I kinda caught the Beretta bug in the last couple years..They are just such fine weaponry..But as good as they are are..I hate the plastic fantastic Grips..I dislike any plastic on any Firearm except my ARs..I can live with that

Anyway here they are and all decked out in wood at last..

They are a 70s .22..Bobcat 21A .22, Italian Police 92s in 9mm, and a Model 84 in .32 ACP.

I want one more though..A Vintage 34 from the WWII Era yet..

 

[carbineone]

I do like shooting the .32 ACP..But it has always been overpriced ammo..I do have a .22 Conversion for the 92S one too..Thinking of selling that though..It works flawless and shoots great..I just have too many .22s already, so a conversion is kinda a waste,LOL

 

[carbineone]

Nice..That is the one I want yet..The ugly one What year is you Model 34?

 

[carbineone]

No expert but all the WWII Era ones are dated on the slide..1941 1942 etc.

 

[carbineone]

I do not think it is ugly..It has alot of History that is all.

 

[carbineone]

Sadly the Berettas have really gone up in price. but all mine were bought well below right....The 70s was bought really right..Check this 70s out on GB..Crazy..I am just watching it to see what it goes for in the end..One the other day without the box and not as nice as mine brought over 800.00..Mine has the box and manuals as the one in the GB Link does..They say t may or may not have been ever fired..But my Box and Pistol is close to as nice as that one. That one is surely not 1250.00 better than mine,LOL

They are just such fine Pistols of high quality standards that will not be made again by probably any Firearms MFG..Just too expensive to have quality along with a price people will pay..Plastic injected molded Guns do nothing for me..But they are cheap to make,LOL

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/914997821

 

[carbineone]

Really cool Beretta stuff you guys have..

 

[carbineone]

Nice

I may have lost my mind or almost yesterday,LOL Just about sold my 92s..

 

[carbineone]

Yeah my Brother in Law just made the comment that he did not like the M9 when he was in the service..Never even bothered to ask him to elaborate..Maybe I will next time he is over..

Never even considered the .40 version..Probably as I have not really encountered one yet in person..

 

[carbineone]

Nice

 

[carbineone]

Just go get it and do not tell Her,LOL

My Wife shoots, but She pays no attention to what I buy or how many Firearms I have..I do not even know without doing inventory myself..

Curious, what are they asking for the one local to you? As long as it is not twice the current rate..It will be a solid investment, tell Her I told you so,LOL

 

[carbineone]

Yeah I do not play the ponzi scams like the Stock Market, crypto and such..All my investments are personally held by me..Firearms, precious metals, vinatge Cars, and other antiques..I do not own one firearm that has not atleast doubled in value, some many more times that..Quality Firearms will always be a solid investment when chosen correctly at the time of purchase..

 

[carbineone]

Here is a pic of a 89 Target I picked up recently..Came with a spare threaded complete upper and all shown Has only been shot I think 40 rounds so far..20 by me..20 by the first original owner..Pic of all I have so far too.

 

[carbineone]

Someone said they do not see a .25 in the collection..I have little interest in anything in .25 Caliber..Ammo is hard to find and expensive for what I consider a worthless round..OK if it was just for the purpose of collecting and having one..But I kinda like to shoot my stuff too..

 

[carbineone]

I kinda resisted for a while now on adding one of these to the Beretta Collection..Not because I do not think they are good Pistol..I just have a hard time buying anything containing Plastic..But seen this one at the Show today and added it in..It is brand new..If I decide to even shoot it..It should be a fun Plinker..

That is not scratch in the pic, it is a piece of my Wifes Low down Cats hair,LOL

 

[carbineone]

I took it out this afternoon and shot two magazines of CCI Blazer..Functioned very nice and smooth..I do not shoot paper but plinking little stones out of a dirt pile is very easy..

I have seen a few gripes about this Pistol in other threads and youtube..First on is the location of the mag release on the right side above the trigger guard..I actually like that..And the mags actually fall clean when the button is depressed..Unlike some other Models I will just leave nameless...People complain it is awkwatd to bend your finger to manipulate the mag relase button..That is not even a needed process..I just keep my finger straight and use the opposite side of my knuckel keeping my finger pointing straight forward, and the button depresses easiliy and the mag falls free..Very convenient in my opinion..Maybe different that we are used to..But not an issue at all for me..Adapt..

Next gripe people come forward with is the grip angle..Again I like it..Very ergonomic to me..I see some holding this as a two handed Pistol when firing it..I cannot say for sure..But I do not think Beretta ever intended it to be shot two handed, not saying it cannot be, but I like it one handed....

From my experience so far though and the word of others it should run even crap Rem Thunderbolts without fail..Again the others I have owned and avoided naming will usually sometime struggle with even better ammo to function properly.

Some also complain the safety lever is the opposite of what they are used to in maybe other Firearms..Well, every Firearm is different is some aspect..You adapt and live with it..Not that hard to do..

Now I do have two deficiencies I do not like in the Pistol....First is I do not like Striker Fired Pistols...Other gripe is I like exposed Hammers on any Pistol I own..Short of those two deficiency's, and they are much more important than the frivolous other gripes people put forward about it...I like it a lot..

Anyway i think it is going to be fine little Pistol..I have also seen many people complain about European Firearms in reviews, and I believe they just have a plain Bias against them from the get go, no matter how good they are they will slam then VS American Firearms just because they feel they have too.. ..

In my opinion. Beretta makes the probably the best off the shelf Pistols ever made in my opinion..Especially the .22s..They have been at it for over 500 years, they should be pretty good at it..

 

[carbineone]

Oh yeah..Just about bought one of those at a Local Gun Show last year..Someone had removed the fake suppressor though and did a horrible job at it..I still kinda regret passing it by now..But oh well, there are always more..