Beretta 92 FS Compact (and general Beretta love lately)

[Dave J]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the Mec-Gar 15-round compact magazines? Mine feed great (as expected from Mec Gar), but the base pads come loose way too easily, so much that I don’t think I’d trust them for defensive use.

I contacted Mec-gar, and they promptly shipped a set of replacement base pads and locking plates, but that didn’t resolve the problem. It looks to me like the little post that prevents the base plate from sliding forward needs to be longer.

[Bucky]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the Mec-Gar 15-round compact magazines? Mine feed great (as expected from Mec Gar), but the base pads come loose way too easily, so much that I don’t think I’d trust them for defensive use.

I contacted Mec-gar, and they promptly shipped a set of replacement base pads and locking plates, but that didn’t resolve the problem. It looks to me like the little post that prevents the base plate from sliding forward needs to be longer.

That's all I use on my Compact these days, carry and practice. No issues to date.

[GyroF-16]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the Mec-Gar 15-round compact magazines? Mine feed great (as expected from Mec Gar), but the base pads come loose way too easily, so much that I don’t think I’d trust them for defensive use.

I contacted Mec-gar, and they promptly shipped a set of replacement base pads and locking plates, but that didn’t resolve the problem. It looks to me like the little post that prevents the base plate from sliding forward needs to be longer.

That’s interesting... the Mec-gar bases on mine didn’t get much use. I preferred the more “compact” metal bases from stock Beretta compact mags, and rubber Beretta bumper bases (Elite may bases). The posts on the Meg-gar mags haven’t had any trouble keeping those in place

[dtrice]

There’s no special SKU for the Vertec slide guns like the LTT, but they do get a LOT better if you keep working with the holster to break it in. Or you can artificially duplicate the process if you disassemble the holster and round off the little plastic corners on the ALS locking mechanism that bump into the front of the slide cutout...once they’ve got a little radius on them, they don’t snag.

I have a RHT holster on the way that I will use until I get the safariland.

[Shorikid]

Beretta night sight question. Once they are dead, I know trijicon won't relamp the sights. Can anything be done otherwise? Drilled for fiber optic rod or just paint them over and move on? Not interested in pin over sight options.

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[JSGlock34]

Beretta night sight question. Once they are dead, I know trijicon won't relamp the sights. Can anything be done otherwise? Drilled for fiber optic rod or just paint them over and move on? Not interested in pin over sight options.

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ToolTech seems to be offering some new sight options for fixed sight 92s. One appears to be a machined dovetail. No idea how this works, but could be an option.

Beretta 92FS W/ Existing Tritium

[CraigS]

I drilled out a fixed sight on a 92g. I got an 8-9 inch piece of 1/4 in rod and drilled into the end of it w/ a 1/16 bit. Then I slid the bit onto the hole w/ a bit of JBWeld. This extension allowed me to keep the angle down as the drill chuck was now behind the rear sight instead of above it. I recommend removing the metal in the middle of the sight before you drill.
20180921_073216 by craig stuard, on Flickr
One of the two common FO tubes is .060" which is great because 1/16 = .062". I touched up my small marks w/ something from Birchwood Casey. This was a stock white dot sight. My old 92f w/ night sights was painted over w/ flat white modeler paint from Hobby Lobby

[GyroF-16]

ToolTech seems to be offering some new sight options for fixed sight 92s. One appears to be a machined dovetail. No idea how this works, but could be an option.

Beretta 92FS W/ Existing Tritium

This looks a lot like what they (ToolTech) was offering as of last summer. Is there some new wrinkle to it that I’m not noticing?

Seems like a sub-optimal solution for anything that would be carried in a holster, due to the apparent taller sights.
I guess it would work for other uses...

[Medusa]

None of my 92 holsters has a sight channel that would have problems with.

i will eventually send my inox slide put for this install, probably.

[spence]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the Mec-Gar 15-round compact magazines? Mine feed great (as expected from Mec Gar), but the base pads come loose way too easily, so much that I don’t think I’d trust them for defensive use.

I contacted Mec-gar, and they promptly shipped a set of replacement base pads and locking plates, but that didn’t resolve the problem. It looks to me like the little post that prevents the base plate from sliding forward needs to be longer.

Yes, I've had this happen. Only when empty, though. Since I only use my few MecGar's for carry, it's a non issue to me. If I actually have to pull the gun and use all 15 rounds, it'll be pretty irrelevant at that point if the base plate on the mag falls off because the threat is either eliminated, or I'm dead.