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Posted: 2/13/2012 12:12:04 PM THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Just a FWIW we got some brand new M9s today. All have plastic guide rods, triggers, left safetys and magazine releases. All had the new hex screws and all have 3 dot sights rather than the 2 dot. None of the hammers have part numbers like our older ones do. All the slides are marked PM with what looked like a handstamp. All are in the 1490000 range. Just thought that some would be interested to know the newest issued pistols are just like the ones being sold as M9s back in the states.

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backbencher Member Team Member Joined: Nov 2005  TX, USA Posts: 680 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/13/2012 12:39:16 PM Did you get the M9A1 w/ the lower rail, or just the standard M9?
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scottrh2 Member Team Member Joined: Jul 2006  KWT Posts: 4083 Feedback: 100% (181) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/13/2012 1:03:52 PM M9. Not aware that the Army is getting any M9A1 and none of the Marines here have any either.
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SchlaffTablett "Senior Pistola" Team Member Joined: Oct 2001  USA Posts: 1654 Feedback: 100% (61) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/14/2012 10:32:54 PM I posted that back in '09 when I signed for a fresh batch in AFG and was told I was full of it. Nice to see that I wasn't. Do yours have the slant dust covers?
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packinheavy 31P3 Team Member Joined: Sep 2002  MO, USA Posts: 17290 Feedback: 100% (41) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/14/2012 10:44:24 PM We got similar ones several years ago too. I also had one of our resident rocket scientists call me a know it all and full of shit when he disagreed with me on the description.
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SchlaffTablett "Senior Pistola" Team Member Joined: Oct 2001  USA Posts: 1655 Feedback: 100% (61) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/15/2012 6:15:50 PM Amazing how many people know what you have seen better than you do huh?
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BallisticTip Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2002  OH, USA Posts: 23957 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/15/2012 6:38:00 PM Good info.
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drobs Contractor Team Member Joined: May 2003  MO, USA Posts: 6655 Feedback: 100% (5) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/17/2012 5:53:19 PM Gotta post some pics of that! Most of the M9's I saw in Iraq looked like they were sand blasted. Saw a few officers w/ brand new ones. After seeing so many over 2.5 years contracting for KBR, I had to get one for myself.
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jspence06 Member Team Member Joined: Sep 2010  NE, USA Posts: 606 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/24/2012 11:26:56 AM We have had those same M9's since about 09 also. I will try to sneak off somewhere that cameras are authorized and get some pics next time I am at work
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coltjeeper Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/25/2012 3:48:14 PM scottrh2, Were you there when they came in? I'm just wondering how they are actually shipped from Beretta, as in how's the packaging and what mags are with them? I heard that they were shipping to the military with two CheckMate mags. I know Colt ships M4s to the Army with the Knights Rail and Matech BUIS already attached. Thanks!
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scottrh2 Member Team Member Joined: Jul 2006  KWT Posts: 4097 Feedback: 100% (181) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/26/2012 2:07:41 PM They came in a plain jane brown carboard box that all had already been opened for inventory when I saw them. These were shipped with plastic "PB" based blued magazines with the LE/Mil warnings and MB body stampings as well as the NSN. No idea what the MB stands for. Each also came with a -10TM DId not see any foil/VCI wrap trash around.
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coltjeeper Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 180 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/26/2012 2:23:03 PM Cool, thanks. My former unit got their M9s in '95. I was there at the time but wasn't a medic yet or in with the armorer to get any info like that. Besides the markings the mags sound like standard current production Beretta. Thanks again.
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Posted: 2/27/2012 3:50:52 PM Originally Posted By scottrh2: They came in a plain jane brown carboard box that all had already been opened for inventory when I saw them. These were shipped with plastic "PB" based blued magazines with the LE/Mil warnings and MB body stampings as well as the NSN. No idea what the MB stands for. Each also came with a -10TM DId not see any foil/VCI wrap trash around. This is exactally how ours came as well although I can't swear to the markings on the Beretta sticks I know they were factory.

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Posted: 2/28/2012 12:25:51 PM Originally Posted By SchlaffTablett: I posted that back in '09 when I signed for a fresh batch in AFG and was told I was full of it. Nice to see that I wasn't. Do yours have the slant dust covers? No, all regular dust covers just like the old ones. Looking at a bunch of them the serial numbers have evolved over the years with the latest being deeply struck while some of the older ones are light and faint...need white out in them to read them. A few old ones went thru ANAD rebuild back in 98 and got the letter "F" added to the sn# for some reason.

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backbencher Member Team Member Joined: Nov 2005  TX, USA Posts: 876 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/28/2012 1:43:42 PM Originally Posted By scottrh2: A few old ones went thru ANAD rebuild back in 98 and got the letter "F" added to the sn# for some reason. That would be the magic no-slide hitting you in the face part add, I believe.
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Posted: 2/29/2012 11:37:56 AM [Last Edit: 2/29/2012 11:41:22 AM by coltjeeper] You guys care to check something else if you can? On the bottom of the barrels their should be the ASSY # same as on the right side of the slide and on the frame under the left grip panel. This is also the number that used to be on the left side of the hammer. I'm just wondering if its still there? I ask mainly because my brother's civi M9 (serial # M9-101xxx) has it as have others I've had in the past, but my current one I just got (serial # M9-136xxx) the ASSY # is not present on the bottom of the barrel.

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scottrh2 Member Team Member Joined: Jul 2006  KWT Posts: 4100 Feedback: 100% (181) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/1/2012 11:14:55 AM Older ones yes the asys number is there. New ones, no, just a PM proofmark on the lug area. No part number on the new hammers either.
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coltjeeper Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 182 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/1/2012 6:47:16 PM Originally Posted By scottrh2: Older ones yes the asys number is there. New ones, no, just a PM proofmark on the lug area. No part number on the new hammers either. Cool, thanks. I thought maybe they slapped a 92 barrel in mine. Good deal.
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