Briman

The beretta will shoot very accurately, but they will need a little trigger tweaking out of the box. Right now is a good time to own a 9mm. Walmart sells Winchester white box 9mm for about $10 per 100- there isn't a handgun larger than a .22 that you can shoot more cheaply.

TScottW99

I have very surprised by my Springfield XD9 4". It is quite accurate with all the ammo I have tried. For defensive ammo it really likes the Corbon 125 grain +P. Best of all it will shoot very tight groups with Winchester white box!

If you want the most accurate 9mm out there, get ready to shell some money out, the Sig 210 is proably the most acccurate 9mm ever made.

dpv

Sig 226 was my first gun. bought it when I was 21. I have put more rounds thru it than I can count. tens of thousands of rounds. I was a law enforcement officer and I carried it as my primary weapon for years. I once went several months without cleaning it just to see how long it would take to malfunction. (I did brush out the barrel though to avoid pitting. ) It had so much crud in it you could have planted potatos in there. too several thousand rounds before I started to get any kind of problem. Fed everything from ball to hollow points. The only ammo I have ever had problems with was cheap factory reloads. Eventually I was forced to carry a Glock. I shot 100's with it right out of the box but it did malfunction due to a small piece that wasn't to speck. Once that was replaced, I was confident in it. The trigger pull on my sig is like glass but it took a lot of shooting to get that way. I remember it being kind of gritty when I first got it.
after 16 years I have to say, I carry that Sig and I have no problem worries about it's performance.

David

driftrider

Or infamous, depending on who you ask!

I served as an MP in the Corps and carried an M9 (the U.S. made mil-spec version of the Beretta 92F) daily, only because I had to, and always wished I didn't. I know that the M9 is NOT necessarily indicative of the Italian made versions that are sold in all civilian markets, but I always thought of the M9 as a pistol made to AK-47 tolerances...you might not hit what you're aiming at, but it's always go bang. The machining was mediocre, parts fit ranged from decent to looser than a $2 whore, double-action trigger sucked bad, the single-action wasn't much better, and the accuracy was literally hit-and-miss. They also weighed a ton, especially with a 15 round mag. I remember going home with a sore hip every day because 12 hours with an M9 in a strong side holster felt like carrying around a brick. And this was wearing it on police black gear with a nice wide thick belt. The M9 definately left a bad taste in my mouth for Beretta's in general. Every time I look at one I remember my sore hip.

I think that the problem behind the M9 was that the government contracted a foreign company to make our service pistol. Beretta probably based their bid on the cost of producing the weapons in Italy with Italian labor and an existing factory. But the DoD insisted that the guns be made in the U.S. by expensive U.S. workers, and also meant that Beretta had to incur a truckload of additional fixed costs to build a plant they didn't really need. This forced Beretta, to make the guns at the original bid price, to, well, cut a few corners in the quality control department.

So while the civilian Beretta's are probably great pistols, I wouldn't buy one. And as far as I'm concerned the M9 is a underpowered hunk of junk that barely classifies in my book as somewhere between "boat anchor" and "slightly better than an E-tool."

I'll stick with my Glock anyday.

Mike

pointerDixie214

my future rother-in-law is a police officer and he uses a glock, but i know he drools over the Sigs everytime we go to a gun store!