Opinons on the Beretta 92FS Trigger

[eazyrider]

I took my 92fs to the range yesterday for a little trigger time. It's stock standard short of a stainless guide rod.

It's funny. I like my glock. It's so easy to carry, so reliable, and keeps 15 rounds on target with ease.

However, the 92 is just ridiculously accurate. I hadn't shot mine in months and months. The first shot I took was aimed at the number "2" over the heart on the target at 12 yards.

I gripped the gun and squeezed back the long DS trigger, way different than the 8lb trigger on my Glock. A firm stack then clean break and the gun fires. The massive aluminum frame soaks up most all the recoil. The "2" disappears. 14 more shots (with a couple of fliers from poor trigger control) result in a fist size hole center mass.

It's different, but the full size 92 IS a good shooting gun. Love my Glock 19, adore my Ruger revolvers, impressed with the accuracy of my fns...the 92 would be the last gun I part with. Such a pleasure to shoot, my gorgeous Rosa Belladonna.

I agree, no matter how much I practice I simply can't shoot any handgun better than a 92. Simply the best for me.

 

[Tallball]

I have a Taurus 99 and a Beretta 96. My FiL has an Italian Beretta 92. They all have okay triggers. Not great, not terrible, just kinda average.

 

[GarrettJ]

...but the best thing you could do in a 92 is skip the beretta and go slumming with a Taurus PT92, or better yet a pt99 with adjustable sights. Gun is half price compared to beretta, has all the good qualities, and even a few more like better safety location and a much much better trigger. Smoother and a lot less sloppy, a little bit lighter feel but probably feels lighter because it's so much smoother.

I own both, and had them both out of the safe last night, and I'd have to agree with you. I assumed the Taurus was lighter and smoother simply because mine is a decade or two older than the Beretta.

Both are stock, except I've modified the Taurus mag catch to use Beretta mags.

 

[JohnKSa]

My opinion of the Beretta 92 trigger based on the 4 or 5 I've owned or shot is that if you aren't making little tiny groups with the pistol it's not the trigger's fault. I wouldn't go around raving about the trigger, but it's a decent trigger and doesn't hinder good accuracy.

 

[FL-NC]

Can anybody speak to the quality of the Beretta 92's trigger? I hear people say that the single action trigger stacks, and that the double action pull is very long and heavy and will throw your first shot off (is it any longer and heavier than a DA revolver?). I am thinking of picking an Italian FS model up, but I've never had a SA/DA auto before, and I wouldn't want a pistol that would make it hard to learn the system. Thoughts?

I'm not a fan of DA pistols in general. I have been issued the M9 (92), M11 (SIG 228) and the HK MK23 at different times. That being said, if I were to choose any of them now based on the trigger, I would go with the SIG, in whichever size or caliber suited me. I would never use the Beretta again unless there was no other reasonable alternative due to the trigger and many other reasons.

 

[pblanc]

I would agree with both of the last two posts, except I am a fan of DA/SA pistols.

The SIG Sauer P-series pistols have the best DA/SA triggers of any production pistols I have yet encountered. The Beretta 92 series trigger, while not quite as good, can be pretty easily improved and it is certainly good enough that, with practice, it should not be a detriment to accurate shooting.