Meet The M9 Beretta: The Gun The US Marines Truly Miss?
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We had both on the Lincoln. Since it started on the East coast the Plankowner MARDET was already carrying M-9's. Us West Coast MARDET was still 1911 when we came aboard. M-9's gave higher scores on qual days and twice as many rounds. Drawback was the 'Beretta Bite'. 1911's definitely will last forever and make bigger holes. I prefer the 1911 over the M-9
I've never shiied away from stating my feelings for my M9's.
I carry one each day as a back up/car gun, and carried one on every deployment I did. I've beat them up pretty good and have never had a problem with them: clean or dirty, brass or steel ammo, factory or aftermarket mags, doesn't matter, they have never let me down.
Combine that with the muscle memory of several overseas deployments, and I will never talk badly about an M9, nor will I give mine up.
Everyone has their own preferences, but this is mine.
I carry one each day as a back up/car gun, and carried one on every deployment I did. I've beat them up pretty good and have never had a problem with them: clean or dirty, brass or steel ammo, factory or aftermarket mags, doesn't matter, they have never let me down.
Combine that with the muscle memory of several overseas deployments, and I will never talk badly about an M9, nor will I give mine up.
Everyone has their own preferences, but this is mine.
cool arrow said:
Im with you here. Most of the problems we saw were due to old worn out guns that weren’t taken care of. I always said after I retired I was going to get me one that was new and wasn’t an issued gun. Yet two years into retirement and here I am….still haven’t done it. Maybe it’s finally time.
My first centerfire was an 96FS. I sold it to get a 1911 (which I was lucky enough to have Hobbs build out for me), but I’ve always been a Beretta 92 guy. At one point I had nearly a dozen different models of the platform. I’m now down to only one at present, an LTT RDO Centurion. I do have a spare slide though, and am seriously thinking of sourcing another frame so I have a second one. With modern G10 grips and the G models, they’re phenomenal pistols. Still heavier than a Glock, sure. But with a good trigger, they’re easy to shoot and incredibly accurate, IMO. I dig ‘em!
I always felt the M9 got a bad rap. Honestly, too nice a gun to be issued for military abuse. I get a lot of vets who come in looking for one and they are surprised to see how nice a brand new one is, especially the Inox and RDO.
Aside from one schitty magazine production run by one vendor and a couple of slide breakages in the 80's,...the M9 was almost always functional and reliable.
If the Pentagon had replaced it with the Glock, I don't think there would be nearly as many people biching and moaning.
If the Pentagon had replaced it with the Glock, I don't think there would be nearly as many people biching and moaning.
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