Posted: 3/5/2007 10:54:37 PM EDT
| m9 tactical worthy? ive decided to get a beretta ..im looking for a 96 in 40 cal. or a m9... i want to make it "tacticool" are these guns tactical worthy? i want it to be my new self defense/home defense/ccw/tactical pistol. |
What exactly do you mean by that? It's a service pistol - no rails, you can put a lasergrip or lasermax on it, and with a threaded or 3-lug barrel you can suppress it, but that's about it without actually drilling holes/adding things... They are not 'Tactikewl accessory-magnets' like the USP, XD, or some of the custom 45s... They are very accurate pistols, unmodified, however... Beretta does make a 'Tactikewl' version, the 90-two (or whatever they are calling it now) which is a plastic wondergun patterned after the 92FS... |
| i was just wondering if there was any other way i can attatch a light on it and get night sights n such..because i have a xd but i like berettas much more but still want the light and night sites.. i jsut got a glock 17 so i guess i can do it to that..id just prefer my accessories on my favorite pistol.. |
| i didnt mean to offend when i said tacticool i jsut thought that was what all you guys called guns with accessories like a light and night sites. i dont want to just make it look like a tactical gun i want to use this gun for many things and all the accessories would have their purpose not just sitting there and looking "tacticool" |
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Chris, Actually there is a rail you can attach to the finger guard that will allow a light attachment, and yes you can get night sights installed on the M9, but you have to take it to a gun smith because the front sight has to be drilled out. At least that is what I understand. I dont own an M9... yet  Beretta Discussion [LINK] |
Like my Vertec??  Its almost tacticakool, its got new grips and ill be purchasing a m3 rail light fot it this weekend. 
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It's not plastic. |
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chris0, You want TACTICAL? or tacti-cool? If you want to be able to eliminate problems of the social difficulty kind, you want something that will drill, dependably, medium sized holes in a circle the size of a silver dollar at seven yards... To be able to do so, regardless of ambient light conditions, you'll want an Insight Technologies or Surefire laser/light combination. Like fine rifles, you want the best "glass" you can afford... In this case, Insight or Surefire. Night sights of the Tritium capsule type, Trijicon or Meprolight, or similar maker, are great, but I've not seen them on the standard M9A1s... Hence the 1913 Picatinny rails that grace the newer M9s, as in, M9A1... There is a thread somewhere here in the Beretta forum that has a gorgeous M9A1 graced with a Surefire 200, I believe. Functional Art of the highest order... Look, let's face it. Guns like the SA/XDs are made from scratch, to have light rails... The M9A1 is the latest incarnation of the venerable 92 which made it's debut shortly after World War II. As all engineering is a compromise, things have to be weighed in the balance... You CAN jury-rig things to make things "work." Not the best way, but such practices are condoned as "battlefield expedience." If you have FIVE CENTURIES of experience making great weapons to kill people, you have the benefits of time and experience. The M9A1 w/rails, and it's .40S&W brothers, are the distillation of that time and experience. Tactical? Hell, yes! Only the 1911 has more kills in combat. For shear murder, the Tokarev used by the NKVD and it's cousins, probably killed more, but not as a combat weapon... One poster said it's the "cowboy in us" Americans that has us use our pistols more in combat... Personally, I think it's when we've run out of other ammo, that our "default" is the pistol... Regardless, we're not hesitant to square accounts, as needed... In the service, the weapon for the Navy was the 1911A1, and I loved that slab-sided old bitch. Our barrels were damned near smoothbore, but if you've ever had somebody look into that business end, they instantly stopped doing what they had been thinking of... In those days, 1969 to the early 1970s, we rarely needed to draw it from our WWII flap holsters. Good thing- our magazines only had five, FIVE, rounds in them, and the chambers were empty... When I became a civilian, the first pistol I bought, was a Beretta 92. I really learned to shoot automatics with it, and it's soon acquired brother. Then came the siren song of the 1911, and things shifted for thirty some odd years... Well, I've two M9A1s w/light rails, and I'm going to keep the Kimbers, and XDs of various types and calibers. (Fear of the wingnuts in Washington will do that to you). But my first choice now, as before, is the Beretta, and as much whiz-bang gear as she'll hold. All she has to do, is get me to my rifle, and then I'm king... Day or Night... CFL, out... |