A few weeks ago, on the Beretta forum, I was asked for photos of my current training gun, which had surpassed the 35k round mark. Being primarily a collectors forum, most participants there view this as a high level round count. I know we here do not. However, I thought I'd post it up here as well, since you never know when such things might be useful.
The finish has held up pretty well. I contribute this to the use of a leather holster. Since I carry IWB I prefer a leather holster for that use, as I find it far more comfortable than plastic. A Kydex holster will trash a guns finish in no time flat. After thousands of presentations the finish is still in pretty good shape.
Now for the innards.
There's nothing to really see here other than some finish wear. Nothing is overly worn or fatigued. Everything remains in serviceable condition. There's a little erosion of the breach face around the firing pin hole, but nothing unexpected or worrisome.
This gun is on its second locking block. With the first one replaced around the 20k round mark.
As for routine maintenance: the recoil spring is replaced every 3k rounds. I replaced the first trigger return spring at the proscribed 5k round mark. Since then I've let it ride, just to see how far it will go. As of now, the current TRS has over 30k pulls during live fire and at least that many in dry fire. I don't think the TRS is an issue anymore. The original extractor was replaced at the 25k round mark. I recently replaced the original trigger bar with a Langdon unit. I didn't bother photographing the original part since there's no unusual or even significant wear on it. Other than that, the gun gets cleaned every few thousand rounds and lubed on a routine basis. I don't baby this particular 92, far from it.
I wish I had something dramatic to report, but I don't. The 92 is a very solid service weapon, as long as it's properly maintained and that doesn't take that much effort. In fact, it's one of the most reliable handguns I've ever used. The uninitiated and the ignorant will parrot the old urban myths about the 92 being fragile and unreliable. My experience has shown this to be patently false.