PX4 Compact?

[BoneDigger]

I hear that Beretta is coming out with a compact version (or subcompact) of the PX4, and maybe with a full size .45. Any confirmations of this, or any idea of when?

Todd

 

[Storm]

Want a look? http://www.berettaforum.net/vb/showthread.php?t=9189

 

[Mark54g]

It is a PX4 in name only. The standard browning action vs the rotating barrel design makes them Beretta 9000s in new frames.

 

[cpirtle]

I have a friend who's a marketing exec at BUSA, he told me ETA was May of this year.

To get the size they wanted the rotating barrel would not work.

 

[Mark54g]

That's fine, but that makes it TOTALLY different from the PX4. I think its disingenuous to call it a PX4 compact. The pistol itself is very different.

 

[cpirtle]

Personally, I think Beretta has a hard time winning support in anything they do.

The way it is, 1/2 of the people say it's a different gun. If they'd have called it something else the other half would be saying "it looks like a cut down PX4"...

When they made the mini Cougar people complained that it really wasn't a mini, just a cut down Cougar.

People complained for years that Beretta didn't make anything different. So they go out on a limb and make the 9000 (which is an excellent pistol if it fits your hand) and everyone complained that it looked like a tennis shoe.

The Mini PX4 should be a nice gun and I'll buy one.