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High School Latin was not much help, but Google Translate is your friend: "The platform designed for Ipsc competitions was subjected to a slimming treatment to fall within the weight required by the Idpa regulation. The barrel remains in steel, but the Picatinny sled disappears from the dust cover; even the handle remains the Vertec, but material is removed inside, as well as in the front part of the barrel. The aluminum trigger also participates in the lightening. We tested the first of a pre-series of 200 pistols" I like getting rid of the frame rail, as I don't use them. They are doing something with the top of the slide right behind the breech, perhaps a Langdon-esq bed for a Red Dot.

I use Redding dies for my Service Rifle ammunition, 200, 300 & 600 yards. They have separate bushings that do the neck sizing on each case. The seater die has a micrometer to set over all length, precisely. If you have one lot of consistent necked brass, the bushing allows you to set neck ID by setting neck OD with the appropriate bushing: https://ads.midwayusa.com/product/1018049443 A Small Base size die sizes the case a little further toward the bottom of the case. This is not necessary for most rifles, but it is for some. Some cartridge cases will need it more, for the same rifle. I have loaded .30-'06 for many rifles since the 1970s and never needed a Small Base sizer for any brass in any .30-'06 rifle, until the CMP brought in the HXP brass from Greece. It sounds like you need to read about Small Base sizers, as well as other precision reloading concepts in a comprehensive reloading manual, or perhaps one specifically on loading .223. I recommend this: http://www.zediker.com/books/handloading/hlmain.html

I have a number of Beretta 92 barrels, and all of them are .3575" groove diameter, so use bullets that are at least a little larger. All of them have chambers which are big enough to hold a cartridge assembled with a bullet of that diameter. If you use too small a bullet, you will get fantastic Leading.

The M9A3 slide is just a Vertec slide. I just got a Vertec slide back from Langdon Tactical, having been modified with a low red dot mount, and they installed tall iron sights on it. Go talk to Ernest Langdon about what he can do for you.

Actually there is: buy a spare Vertec slide and send it to Langdon for the red dot cut. I have spare slides for several of my 92 pistols, most frequently a G, but also Vertec so I can have different sights. They've always worked 100%. While you're at it, get a TJIAB for it.

Maybe you can get a black front sight here: https://dawsonprecision.com/beretta-92a1-black-front-sights/

Maybe a bushing-type size die, without the bushing and decapping stem, would get the job done.

I have some .223 brass which is a great deal heavier than what one typically sees, and that means lesser internal capacity. . When I first got an AR about 1976, the only .223 ammo I could find was some strange white boxed Norma. It was the dirtiest burning .223 I've ever encountered, plus having the heaviest cases. There's one batch of new Scandahoovian brass I got recently which is almost as heavy.

Both issues I have heard regarding dry firing the B92 have been mentioned above, but need slightly more development. Early B92 trigger return springs broke a lot. Beretta and Wilson Combat have come up with better trigger return springs, and nobody seems to be breaking them anymore. Wolff Springs quite awhile ago came up with a module to replace the trigger return spring for the Border Patrol. Wilson Combat also resells the same module. The module is much more expensive than an upgraded spring, but it is a lot easier to install than the upgraded spring. Some people complain about the Wolff module giving the trigger pull a slightly gritty quality, but I don't feel it. For pistols that I shoot a lot, I have the Wolff modules in. Mention was made above about B92 firing pins breaking with extensive dry firing. This has happened to friends, but the pistol continued to fire normally, and the broken firing pin was found much later during a rebuild.

The gas is getting around the primers. One sees this more often with rifles, where the primer pocket has expanded due to soft brass or hot loads, and the brass should have been retired earlier.

How hard it is to conceal depends largely on your body type, where you carry and what clothes you wear. The 92 Compact has a slightly shorter barrel/slide, and a shorter grip frame. If you carry at 4:00, the shorter barrel/slide helps some people in that when they sit, the muzzle isn't contacting the chair, pressing the gun up out of the holster. If you appendix carry, it will poke you less in front. A shorter grip frame causes the pistol to stick out a bit less, being less likely to show a tell tale bulge outside your clothing. A thinner pistol would also create less of a bulge, but that cuts magazine capacity a lot. I don't know if Texas is one of them, but some States require you to not show any gun bulge. I've been in San Antonio in mid summer. I'm sure it's why my Great Grandfather left that area in 1890, to come some place cooler. If you are going to carry anything there in summer, it'll have to be smaller, or you'll have to wear a vest over it. If you're willing to commit to a vest all the time, it will be less likely to show a bulge than full size. It will still take a full size magazine. MecGar's patented Compact magazines with the telescoping magazine spring allows you to still have 15 round capacity, in the smaller grip frame.

That powder was originally made in Israel, then the Czech Republic, then elsewhere. Each maker made a powder that looked different.

I have both the Nelson and the Marvel #1. I have not shot them that much. Both are more accurate than I am. The Nelson is on a dedicated KC lower, the Marvel is on the 1918 Colt my father brought back from WWII. I have occasional reliability issues with both, with all magazines tried. I use Nelson and GSG magazines for the Nelson, and both metal and plastic Marvel magazines. I am using mostly CCI SV. My Undergrad degree is in Metallurgical Engineering, and for long life with cyclical loading you want a steel slide. The only conversions I am aware of that have steel slides are the Marvel and the Colt.

Apparently, ToolTech is doing a lot of things with Beretta sights. I don't know which Beretta your friend had, but here's one of their offerings for the 92FS: http://tooltechgunsight.com/product/beretta-92fs/

A long running discussion I have seen about compensators on Berettas is this: https://berettaforum.net/vb/showthread.php?t=94025 I have also seen pictures of Open class Berettas, made from 92X performance pistols, but they are not just a screw on proposition.

They were made in Russia, by Murom. Sanctions caused them to no longer be importable. My experience with them has been excellent, but that is mostly with rifle primers.

I have a Browning High Power that has a tight chamber, and loose groove diameter. If I use Lead bullets large enough to fit the groove diameter, a cartridge loaded with such a bullet will usually not chamber freely. You may have that situation.

There are far less holsters available that accommodate the rail. I am using two holsters for Berettas with the rail. A Ted Blocker IWB and a DeSantis pancake, both with a thumb-break, because I have had two instances of pistols jacking themselves out without a thumb-break. https://www.desantisholster.com/search.php?search_query="P-002BAA6Z0"+"P-001BAB2Z0" https://www.tedblockerholsters.com/MOD12-IWB-Concealment-Holster_p_34.html Here's a thread from the Pistol Forum where I got other suggestions for holsters for that frame, some made with-or-without the thumb-break: https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?39406-IWB-Thumbreak-Holster-for-Beretta-92-with-rail

I have one of the full size, and the Centurion, and the Compact. At 50 feet the first two shoot to point of aim, but the compact shoots about 2.5 inches low.

It gets worse: Langdon now has a Centurion (short slide/full size frame) and a Compact (short/short) version. The Compact has a 15 (!) round magazine.

I have two 9mm barrels that have tight chambers but loose groove diameters, and if I load a bullet that fits the groove diameter, the cartridge won’t chamber. If I use a Lead bullet small enough for the cartridge to chamber, I get lots of Leading. Don’t buy in quantity until you know it works. If your barrel was .357” or .358” groove diameter and you shot .356” bullets, you would have had lots of Leading.

For different shotgun games, I want different comb heights. I want higher for Trap, and lower for Skeet. There are velcroed attaching comb raisers you can use temporarily also.

Consistent motion of the handle is the biggest thing. If you stop for awhile, pour the first 3 or so powder charges back.

I use a drafting stool, which is adjustable up and down. It gets in the way for everything else, but is very comfortable to sit on when loading.

Get the attachment to power it from an electric hand drill, or you will get Carpal Tunnel: https://lewilson.com/trimmer-power-adapter/