Stainless steel and pearlescent anodized aluminum, fully ambidextrous, and
ridiculously accurate. The Taurus PT92 AFS this time on Gun Fzx (Physics).
These are the first shots out of the first magazine on my first range trip with
this gun in quite a while.
And as you can see that first shot really didn't go very well it's well left of target
That's a little better. Wait for it.
OK, now i'm getting it. This pistol has a really good trigger, I like it quite a bit.
So of the first six shots five made the target and I kept on getting more accurate.
This is my first five out of six. Remember, totally cold after like a year
of not shooting it. 1.4 inches for five out of six. Gotta ignore that six shot.
And here are my next ten rounds. We'll count nine because again i pulled one shot.
In the 1970s
Beretta built a factory in Brazil for a contract they had there. Later, when the
contract ran out they sold everything to Taurus.
So this is a copy of the Beretta 92 but made with Beretta tooling. It has a
stainless slide and barrel and various parts and the frame is a pretty
good looking pearlescent anodized aluminum. Vertical serrations on the
front and rear of the grip. The grips are Hogues.
They replaced the really cheap plastic one supplied by Taurus.
I am NOT a lefty but my son is and many of you are so this is perfect for you.
Ambidextrous safety - it's mounted on the frame not the slide like the Beretta 92.
That same lever is also a decocker for safely dropping the hammer on this
firearm. The hammer has three positions - all the way down, half-cock, and full cock.
Here's a view of the front sight and Berettas signature open-top slide.
That's the rear sight and here's the sight picture. Look closely you can tell that
the front sight is drilled a bit off-center. The bore axis is not really low,
it does have a little beaver tail, no checkering on the front of the trigger
guard, and no accessory rail -
it looks better that way. The magazine's do drop free and since i bought this used
I don't know if this was the originally supplied magazine or not but it's fine.
To supplement that one magazine i did purchase two more MecGar 18 round
magazines with plus two base plates.
So that's 20 plus 20 plus 17 plus one - 58total rounds. The safety/decocker
is accompanied by a slide lock lever and the takedown lever on the frame.
Here's a view of the underside - that's the magwell. Even with the aluminum frame
this thing is not light at two pounds two ounces, but that makes this
9mm really easy to control.
So let's take a look at the trigger of this PT92 and see why it's so accurate.
Starting with the single action, it's what you'll be using most. That's just take up, it
doesn't do anything. Then you just press and it goes. There's really no creep.
Here's the reset.
Nice. The double-action pull, however, is ridiculous.
Twists your finger, takes a whole lot of force, and since this is just a range gun for me,
I never really use the double action. So after a good warm-up i was able to prove
its accuracy.
This is seven yards standing unsupported.
Watch the bottom circle.
Oh, check it out, that's real good.
Nice. this is looking excellent. see what happens on the fourth
aauugghh.
Let's see what happens on the fourth.
very nice
oh yeah four out of five right there that's great! That's a one-inch orange circule
at seven yards.
No measuring instrument with me so I folded one of those little orange
circles to represent the center-to-center distance for four of those
five. Seven tenths of an inch!
That's one point eight centimeters. That's the best I've ever done. And this
is 14 yards on six inch steel plates.
I am more accurate with this gun than any other. During this range trip there were
a couple of times when the slide did not lock back after that last round.
My mom was able to stovepipe it a couple of times from her weak grip and a lack
of maintenance on my part. But this is fully ambidextrous.
You can just push that to one side unscrew it and flip it around. Takedown's
really easy - just push in on that little button on the right side of the frame
flip that down, slide comes right off.
No need to pull the trigger.
So that's my Taurus PT92 AFS - for stainless - in 9mm.
It's beautiful, it's fully ambidextrous, and supremely accurate.
I love it.