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I picked up a surplus Beretta 92S that’s in good shape for its age and use. Not much visible internal wear. Shot it for the first time this weekend and had some odd failures.
It shot fine with aluminum cases factory 9mm. When I shot factory reloads from North Georgia Reloading (115gr 1050fps) I had multiple failure to eject, failure to chamber, and just general clustering happening in the chamber (live round would somehow get tilted upward, preventing the gun from going into battery).
The factory reloads worked flawlessly in my other (newer) guns.
I’ve attached a pic of it failing to pull a round out of the mag and push into the chamber.
In the above picture, all it would take is barely a touch to the back of the slide and it would move forward to seat the round with no further issue.
The other problems were failure to eject: empty casing would rotate upward 90 degrees and not eject. Double-feed: a live round would get askew and the next round below it would try to feed.
When I was hunting for one of these guns, someone mentioned replacing the spring(s). Is that’s what is happening here—a weak old spring?
I’ve never shot a 92-model, so I don’t have anything to compare to. It felt a little “sloppy” (for lack of a better phrase) when shooting. Like the slide was too heavy for the gun to operate itself. It was otherwise accurate and a breeze to operate.
These issues were happening with new cheap-o mags as well as the original mag that came with it.
It shot fine with aluminum cases factory 9mm. When I shot factory reloads from North Georgia Reloading (115gr 1050fps) I had multiple failure to eject, failure to chamber, and just general clustering happening in the chamber (live round would somehow get tilted upward, preventing the gun from going into battery).
The factory reloads worked flawlessly in my other (newer) guns.
I’ve attached a pic of it failing to pull a round out of the mag and push into the chamber.
In the above picture, all it would take is barely a touch to the back of the slide and it would move forward to seat the round with no further issue.
The other problems were failure to eject: empty casing would rotate upward 90 degrees and not eject. Double-feed: a live round would get askew and the next round below it would try to feed.
When I was hunting for one of these guns, someone mentioned replacing the spring(s). Is that’s what is happening here—a weak old spring?
I’ve never shot a 92-model, so I don’t have anything to compare to. It felt a little “sloppy” (for lack of a better phrase) when shooting. Like the slide was too heavy for the gun to operate itself. It was otherwise accurate and a breeze to operate.
These issues were happening with new cheap-o mags as well as the original mag that came with it.
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