Beretta / Umarex M9 22LR Intial Review - 92 Series Pistol

[Music] we wanted welcome back today I have what I'm gonna call an initial observation an initial review of a new pistol that I picked up I call it initial because I've only put around a thousand rounds through it so I really haven't shot it extensively but I thought it was so cool then I wanted to share it with you guys as you know I shoot the Beretta 92 a lot and I've been looking for a 22 trainer for the longest time I experimented with a Chiappa and just a horrible gun horrible experience altogether if you're not familiar with that and my whole debacle with that whole thing I'll put a link to that here and then and in the video description below you can see that but if you're thinking about buying a Chiappa m9 clone don't do it or at least look at my my experience first before you make that decision recently I discovered that beretta just came out or has come out recently with the the m9 22 and an hour I another clone another clone and I started looking into it and the operation of it is so much so close to the actual m9 or the 92f that I use that I had to pick it up and try it out for myself if your here is my 92f this is not an FS this is an F up like this up back in 1989 and this is what I use for production in USPSA but this thing has served me very well and now with the added addition to this to my collection if you will I think I have something a little bit nicer more economical to train with but enough for the BS let's get down to the brass tacks of everything I picked this off of buds for about $400 little less than 400 bucks I believe and it came with one magazine it was a 15-round magazine yes 15 rounds for 22 now if you follow me elsewhere you know I make some parts for the 22 and offer magazine upgrades and such to get more than 10 rounds here's our 15-round magazine they also sell a 10-round magazine and I haven't been able to find aftermarket 15-round magazine or rather factory 215 round mags for sale I can only find 10 rounds there is a spacer in the bottom that keeps you from loading ten rounds the the magazine based pad here is quite complex compared to most others and it's glued on the ten rounds at least on my models that I picked up if you're interested in showing seeing how to take that apart and upgrade it to a 15-round magazine I'll put a link to that video here but anyways back to the video itself 15 round mags really cool this is the little device here that locks open the last shot fired so it's going to work the slide lock for you so if you remove that it's not gonna work anymore but going to the gun if you're familiar with a 92 F or let's just call it the m9 and this is the m9 22 I believe beretta makes two other models m9a1 or something like that one of them has a rail and I think one of may actually have a threat it's a threaded barrel but I could only find this particular model at the time I bought this to be nigh honest I would like to have one with us a threaded barrel but to run a suppressor on it but I don't have that option right now but this one is just like the one I use for competition it comes apart just like any other 92f you push the button on the side right here and while pushing that you flip this lever right here and the slide kind of bounces forward and then you pull the slide right off now remember I said I only shot around a thousand rounds through this I shot it right out of the box with no oil this gun had no oil on it when I got it and I shot it just like it was and it ran all asleep its little dirty I ran some Remington golden bullet in there that stuff is really filthy so it kind of dirtied up the inside but going to the slide here the it's a captured guide rod system here it is right here you can take it art by pulling this little spring right here on the end and then there's two little pieces that pop off of the guide rod they come loose and then the spring will come off the guide rod itself I found the recoil of this much more pleasant than my colt 1911 22 and the GSG 1911 22 I'm not quite sure what it is yet I do have a thing for for this particular model of gun however these this gun here just recalled so much nicer I'm not quite sure what it was and there's minimal recoil 222 anyway but it just felt much more nicer the barrel comes out just like the regular one so here we have the barrel it doesn't look like it'd be too awful to take these two screws out potentially and put on a threaded barrel later on down the road if you wanted to the weight of this is slightly less than the nine-millimeter version that I have and most of the weight tends to be in the frame itself which was kind of surprising because it is a polymer frame and the aluminum or the aluminum frame that I shoot for the 9-millimeter one it weighs a little bit less than this this setup right here but the nine-millimeter has more weight on the the slide portion here so this is just a little bit less but it weighs a few ounces less than the 90 to the nine millimeter version that I have looking at the controls in here the parts look very very similar to the regular 92f but I don't think they're gonna be interchangeable at least not many if any so I but to be honest with you I found this gun so nice the way it is I really can't see much of an improvement and as far as changing stuff out some people like to replace the the hammer spring back here by popping out the the lanyard loop and put in like a 92 D I think it is it's a lighter spring into the 92 series here and it gives you a lighter trigger pull but I looked at the spring in there and it's quite a pain in the rear to get out and put back in plus the spring seems to be a little bit different from the other one so they don't think you can actually switch that spring out but you know for the trigger pull it's not too bad double actions little heavy single actions much much nicer now putting this thing together well let's go back to this the it is an ambidextrous magazine release so if you decide you want to switch it around shoot left-handed you can do that it looks like there's a spring straight down in there is a straight spring kind of see some light point shining on it right in there like a straight line you have to look pop that out of its position then the magazine release will come out that you can put it on the other side and pop that spring back into place I fiddled with it a little bit it seemed a little bit more trouble than it's worth for me anyway because just to experiment but it is doable from what I can tell if you're just going to switch that out it can be a little cumbersome because you're basically trying to move that straight spring which is probably an inch and a half long out of the way and it's providing the tension let me push on the magazine release and you'll see that spring move I mean it looks like a straight line here in the video but it's basically a spring the magazine down here it has what I would like to call a built-in mag well this gives it the same grip grip width as the full-sized 92 but it also provides more of a guide for feeding your magazines most 22s it's pretty much straight in straight out this actually has a beveled edge right here so when you it makes putting the magazines in so much easier and so more fluid so I found that to be a nice addition to I don't know if they record or meant to do that when they did it but that's well it seems to be working pretty nice for me I like that set up so let's put this thing back together real quick we'll take our barrel put it back in and our guide rod the little capture area up here is gonna go to the front and then we're just gonna put it and rest it on that shelf right there and we're gonna put this on the front unlike the real 92 I can just push the slide back like this and flip the lever this one here the barrel doesn't come back so what I found to do to get this closed is to put your finger on the barrel and push it back but I've just been taking my hand and putting it like so that straightens it up back here and at that point then you can flip the switch and it locks it back in place like I said the controls are just like the 92 would take the decocker it's now in the safe position and then you can flick it up right there and the first shot is double action to where it shoes there is a loaded chamber indicator here at the top and when you do flip it to safety there's our firing pin right there when you flip the decocker down it puts a block in front so let me pull that back so it basically puts a block right in front of that I'm rolling it out of the way seeing see so it blocks the firing pin when I shoot USPSA in this gun I put it on like so that and then holster it with a live one and then when I draw it I flick that up and my first shot it's always double action so if you ever watched my 92 videos where I'm shooting it in competition that's how I'm doing it my personal grip on this type of gun sometime I I catch that that slide lock right there so my guns sometimes will not lock back on blast shot fired but that's basically because my fingers are getting in the way so if I put any video footage here and you see the slide not locking back that's what's going on go into shooting I've shot lots of ammo through this an array of ammo the I had one misfire and the cool thing about this is since it is double action once that hammer Falls you can pull the trigger again and it'll try to detonate that round one more time so if it is a true dud or light strike you can get another another shot off on it I really like that with the 22 it did not like the quiet CCI ammo but then again I have not had that ammo cycle anything it works best in a lever-action 22 or a bolt action 22 as mentioned the frame is a polymer and the the slide is aluminum and the barrel is steel so that's where we're getting a lot of weight right here as mentioned I'm not sure quite sure what they the weight is in here perhaps they have some weights or something inside the gun but it the the frame is a little bit more heavier than then the aluminum frame nine-millimeter that I have the grips are interchangeable which is a nice thing I mean I tried to put beretta grips on the Chiappa and they just would not fit but these are not the grips that came with the gun and reason is on the right-hand side there's a spring that works this this lever right here and the spring on this one is a little bit different from the regular one and what it what it does is it's poking out a little bit more into the grip and the plastic itself is a little bit cheaper on this gun and what it did to me was it pushed the grip out a little bit more so it it kind of gave you the feel of a squishy grip in a way I'd deem that to the plastic of the grips because I took some aftermarket grips and I put them on in their place and that took care of the problem and so now that's what this gun is supporting this important some aftermarket grips aside from the grips being interchangeable the screws themselves appear to not be interchangeable so if you're thinking about buying some aftermarket screws to kind of bling up your your pistol a little bit i've stock money two screws for me did not fit so I'm pretty much guessing that it's not going to fit for you as well there it's a different hole different size altogether the sights on the gun you can replace in fact it comes with two front sights and this is the shorter of the two mine king with the taller one installed I went ahead and put the shorter one because I was shooting way low and I put this one on here it brought it up a little bit but not enough I went out and looked at some aftermarket 92f 92 series of front sights that you could replace with a dovetail and they did not fit so this from my experience so far could be a proprietary dovetail cut so I don't think you can find an aftermarket front sight for this just yet so at the moment this gun does shoot a little low for me the rear sight is you that has a set screw right here you can pop that out and drift it left or right and then take it out altogether I'm probably going to order another an adjustable rear sight like I put on this because I had the exact same problem with this gun when I first bought it years ago it just did not shoot accurately for me and I couldn't get the elevation correct this guns so old it doesn't have a dovetail in the front so I can't do anything about the front sight on this one so on the trigger pull on this slice I mentioned the double action was a little heavy let's lock it open we'll put a snap cap in here and in a single-action will use our trigger scale so you can see that there you go forget about five pounds it said it's it's very close to my nine millimeter version as far as the single action goes anyone always want to do that a couple of times make sure you had it in the correct spot so about five pounds double action it's a little bit more beefier let's see what it gets to there's five already come on come on it's off the scale off my scale anyway so it's brutal I'm not gonna lie to you on double action my 9 millimeter version is so much lighter on the double action portion of that however I have cut the hammer spring down a little bit in it to lighten that pull well there's my initial review of the hem 922 I'm sorry I went a little long but as always thanks for watching and please don't forget to subscribe like and share the video [Music]

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Rating: 4.8433809 out of 5

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Id: Q0jgZWWOtsE

Length: 15min 5sec (905 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 12 2016