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They make excellent tiny ice cube trays.

I've never found anything faster, easier, or cheaper than these: https://www.lymanproducts.com/magnum-inertia-bullet-puller/ The collet pullers need a longer bullet to grip, pistol bullets are not optimal for them. They look like they won't last a week, but I have a Dillon one (all plastic) and an old RCBS I believe with the aluminum handle shaft, that have lasted over ten years and thousands of rounds. When using them, put a piece of wood or Trex plastic lumber, or a chunk of delrin, or almost anything not metal in a vise, and whack the puller on that. Most semi-auto ammo in one or two whacks, revolvers and rifles, or lighter bullets a few more.

Just makes it a longer reach. Which in my experience makes the trigger feel heavier. I took the trigger out of my 92XP and replaced it with a Wilson Combat short reach trigger. Much better for my medium sized hands. There's a lower powered trigger return spring, might shave a minute amount off the pull weight. Also offers the benefit of being easier to assemble. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/3415113198/ Not sure what else you could do and keep it reliable, maybe (if you have the know-how), work on hammer/sear engagement (SA), cut coils off the hammer spring, shoot it and let it work itself in. Spring values will probably lower with use. Also go through the gun and eliminate/smooth any friction points. BTW 5.11 lbs DA and 2.5-3 lbs SA isn't bad at all.

From the Director of NROI. My inquiry: Muchos gracias Sir. I appreciate the quick response. With regard to the Beretta 92X Performance, on mine I have the smallest thumb safeties Beretta sells, they're still way too wide. I've been told that grinding/filing/modifying them is legal (not by official sources, so color me skeptical), but what gives me pause is Appendix D4, 21.6 & 22. There's nothing that specifically allows altering/filing/grinding of thumb safety levers, and how the presence of ground/filed/altered levers will be treated at anything other than a club level match is a concern when I have no documentation of the legality of the modification, and Per Special Note 5 at the bottom of Appendix D4 (Emphasis by capitalization from Appendix D4) it would appear that altering/griding/modifying the thumb safeties is not an approved practice: 5. UNLESS a modification is SPECIFICALLY authorized in the rules or SPECIFICALLY authorized in an official, published NROI interpretation, it is considered a PROHIBITED MODIFICATION. Appendix D4; 21.6 Exchange of minor EXTERNAL components Sights, firing pins, firing pin retainers, pins, extractors, magazine releases, slide stops, thumb safeties, triggers, hammers, bushings, and ejectors MAY be replaced with OFM or aftermarket parts. Exchange of OFM parts between different models of Production approved guns is allowed. 22 Specifically prohibited modifications and features Please note that the absence of an item in the list of prohibited modifications MAY NOT be construed to mean a modification is allowed. A modification is only allowed in Production Division if there is a rules clause or interpretation that specifically declares that it is allowed in the Division. Removing or disabling firing-pin blocks or any other factory safety mechanism in Production division is specifically prohibited. Again, thanks for the quick response to my previous inquiry, and thanks for the work that you do at NROI. Response: Troy McManus 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) to me You can trim them down or replace them with smaller versions without penalty. Troy — Troy McManus Director, National Range Officers Institute https://nroi.org https://uspsa.org/ https://steelchallenge.com/ "I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery". Thomas Jefferson Audemus jura nostra defendere

This from Troy McManus, HMFIC @ NROI. My inquiry: 3:49 PM (15 minutes ago) to me, support It's in the rulebook. Small parts, internal parts, etc., can be swapped providing that the swap doesn't render the gun ineligible for the division. Troy — Troy McManus Director, National Range Officers Institute https://nroi.org https://uspsa.org/ https://steelchallenge.com/ "I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery". Thomas Jefferson Audemus jura nostra defendere

Hello. I have a RIA VR80 with the long handguard. The threads to use the extra handguard nut that RIA provides with the gun are way back, under the longer handguard, not sure why they even included the nut with the gun that comes with the long handguard. My question is will this gun accept the Taccom muzzle brake, and how is the handguard held in place with the brake installed? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Bob

Where's that muzzle brake come from, I see is has "RIA" on it. Is it one of theirs?

I have the smallest ones Beretta sells, they're still way too wide. Beretta needs to step up and make a flat thumb safety set, and a decent hump-back grip (not a fan of the Vertec grip frame). I've been told that grinding them is legal (not by official sources though), what gives me pause is Appendix D4, 21.6 & 22. There's nothing that specifically allows altering/filing/grinding of thumb safety levers, and how the presence of ground/filed/altered levers will be treated at anything other than a club level match is a concern when I have no documentation of the legality of the modification, per Special Note 5 at the bottom of Appendix D4 (Emphasis by capitalization from Appendix D4: 5. UNLESS a modification is SPECIFICALLY authorized in the rules or SPECIFICALLY authorized in an official, published NROI interpretation, it is considered a PROHIBITED MODIFICATION. 21.6 Exchange of minor EXTERNAL components Sights, firing pins, firing pin retainers, pins, extractors, magazine releases, slide stops, thumb safeties, triggers, hammers, bushings, and ejectors MAY be replaced with OFM or aftermarket parts. Exchange of OFM parts between different models of Production approved guns is allowed. 22 Specifically prohibited modifications and features Please note that the absence of an item in the list of prohibited modifications MAY NOT be construed to mean a modification is allowed. A modification is only allowed in Production Division if there is a rules clause or interpretation that specifically declares that it is allowed in the Division. Removing or disabling firing-pin blocks or any other factory safety mechanism in Production division is specifically prohibited.

At this point the only uncertainty I have is whether the grinding/filing of safeties is allowed. I could find nothing in Appendix D4 that specifically allows it, but also nothing specifically saying it's verboten. Production Gun list says you can remove one to make it fit in the box, but if you remove the left side lever (the right side lever has the post that goes through the frame that the hammer rides on, so it has to stay), the safety detent is no longer in existence.

It should. The right side lever is the one that has the post running through the slide. Not a good option, check out from the 10:30 point in this video.

Before this and the Shadow 2, I wouldn't have thought it was possible to get DA trigger pull weights so low and still be reliable. The LTT trigger bar is very similar to the 92XP bar, and the overtravel screw in the 92XP makes getting the slop out of the trigger in SA a breeze. Don't know what Beretta changed on th e 92X Performance, but trigger reset is very 1911-like. Slightly better than the Brigadier with LTT bar. Amazing when you consider that the firing pin safety is still functional. Now if they or Lok, or VZ, or somebody would get me a nice humpback grip...

My OCD would have an issue with that.

I swapped a standard takedown lever in mine and a Blade Tech holster for a Brigadier works perfectly. And Red Hill Tactucal makes a holster for the XP, so there's that too.

Exactly why I spent the money. You have to grind them pretty flat.

Yeah got that, still too wide.

My Brigadier with the LTT trigger bar, springs, and W/C short reach trigger is close to the same. The 92X Performance started out better, but they're pretty close now.

If this is covered somewhere else, my apologies, I couldn't find it. Is it allowed to file the thumb safety levers on a 92X Performance to fit inside the Production Gun box? The USPSA Production Gun List (https://uspsa.org/productionlist/download)says: "Some models may not fit the box with ambi safeties, however one safety may be removed for compliance and must remain off for competition." No mention of altering/modifying the safety to get it to fit. Thanks.

I cannot, but I can direct you to this thread on this site which includes an e mail from Troy McManus specifically stating that the conversion is simply using OEM parts to make an FS a G model. Scroll to the second to last post. Still looking for something official from the USPSA or NROI website.

It is allowed, specifically asked and answered a couple if years ago in the USPSA magazine. You're simply using factory parts to put the gun in the condition of a G model factory gun. It's as legal as an actual G model gun.

This ^^^ is the answer you seek. It takes ridiculous rules about thumb safeties, made by people with no idea what they're talking about out of the equation. Also makes the gun much nicer, and is how Beretta should have made the gun in the first place in my opinion. While these guns don't jam much, when they do, you stand a good chance of decocking the gun and engaging the safety when you clear any jam you may have. Making it a G model (decocker only, no safety function on the decocker lever) eliminates this possibility. You may find yourself in DA mode, but all you have to do to clear that is pull the trigger.

I have a 12 lb hammer spring in mine, no other changes other than the Wilson Combat short reach trigger (stock trigger was a reach in DA for my dainty fingers). DA is 3 lbs 14.0 oz, SA is 1 lb 11.2 oz average over five pulls. The reset is amazingly short, and once I got the locktite on the overtravel screw loosened I got the overtravel eliminated too. Only other work I've done to the gun is grinding the thumb safeties to make it fit in the USPSA Production gun box. It's an amazing gun that doesn't need much other than some spring tuning to be really nice. Super accurate too. Now if some company would come out with a decent textured G10 humpback grip to give it the classic grip feel, (the grip Beretta provides is garbage). the gun would be perfect.

No problem, catching trivial mistakes is kind of my thing... ;-). In that vein, I actually spent two weeks in facebook jail for posting this one.

Imagine if these comps were actually doing anything significant, there'd be hours of video of comps breaking off and flying downrange...

Actually it gives you .0475 barrel wall thickness.