gun jam

[Sieger]

Originally posted by tacfoley
I was standing ten metres away from a gentleman shooting a new Beretta Model 92F with some Chinese ammunition he had somehow acquired. The first shot sounded like a .357Mag, and the second shot blew the magazine out of the well, and the slide/breech-block assemby into more pieces than we could find, after the ringing in our ears had died down. Nobody was hurt, but underwear had to be changed by the shooter, I was told later.

Pulling a round down, we were unable to identify the powder - which was ball-type, blue-tinted and smelled strongly of almonds......

The remaining ammunition was dismantled on the spot.

Beretta refused to comment on the blown-up pistol, and he had to take the hit.

tac

Tac:

I believe the Model 92F uses the same lockup system as the P-38 (which is simply a slight modification of the lockup of a Mauser C-1896).

There have been problems with both cracking slides with hot ammo. I cracked the slide of a byf 43 (Mauser) P-38 by using some "gunshow" reloads my Dad had purchased. Oh well, it was his P-38.

Sieger