Beretta M9 broken hammer release

[FCOD]

Hey gang. So I bought a brand new Beretta M9 about 3 months ago because I wanted a 9mm so I wasn't dumping a couple hundred rounds of .45 at the range every week and I love the pistol. It's iconic from the movies I watched growing up and don't know why it took me so long to buy one. I swapped all the plastic parts out for steel and in te three months have probably dumped around 3500 rounds through it.

Fast forward until recently. I was at the range when I noticed that it wouldn't decock anymore. It didn't take long after taking off the slide that I realized the hammer release was broken off. I called Wilson Combat because they're my go-to for small M9 and 1911 parts and they sent me a new one (part 31).

I guess my question is this. How often can I expect this pesky little bastard to break? Anyone else have this happen? Seems like the factory part was a cast part and I'm not sure if Wilson makes their own or if it's a factory part as well. Any insight on this would be rad. It's not a gun I carry, but I do shoot it a lot and it seems inappropriate for parts like this to break. I got the Beretta because it's different from everything else I own, but if this persists, is rather just get another Glock.... Not like I need another one.

[hambam105]

How often can I expect this pesky little bastard to break?

Are you referring to the pistol, or to the person who sold you on the custom work?

Any self respecting M9, 1911, Glock, Sig, and of course Beretta, owner I train with has a spare parts kit(s) that include, front & rear sights, de-cocking levers otherwise referred to as safeties and or 'dingus'. extractors, ejectors, and a assortment of springs, caps, screws of all kinds.

Who is responsible for keeping your pistol up and running, you or some salesman?

[FCOD]

Hmm. Little perplexed by your first line there, so I'm just going to continue reading through it and past the "custom" work part since it being a pretty much stock gun makes that term in itself irrelevant to this topic.

I keep my guns maintained and running, not someone else. That being said, I replace understandably and respectively worn parts on all my pistols as their round counts increase, but I find it laughable that anyone would find it appropriate for frame parts to start breaking at such a low round count. 3000-3500 rounds is around when I should start swapping recoil springs which yes, I do keep on hand. Not frame parts. I'm not sure what part of my OP inferred I was upset at a sales guy?

[19K]

Are you referring to the pistol, or to the person who sold you on the custom work?

Any self respecting M9, 1911, Glock, Sig, and of course Beretta, owner I train with has a spare parts kit(s) that include, front & rear sights, de-cocking levers otherwise referred to as safeties and or 'dingus'. extractors, ejectors, and a assortment of springs, caps, screws of all kinds.

Who is responsible for keeping your pistol up and running, you or some salesman?

are you kidding me? 3500 rounds is hardly enough to warrant a part breaking, and your advice to his question is "maybe you should have a spare parts kit."

[captain america]

I have probably put close to 10,000 rds down my m9. Never had an issue.

[FCOD]

^That makes me feel better. I'm really hoping the part's premature failure was just a fluke and nothing more. It can't be THAT common of an issue with hundreds of thousands of these in holsters all around the world... I hope.

[bountyhunter]

At least 30k fired through my 92 and zero failed parts, not even the infamous locking block. Of course, mine was from the 90's and I have no idea what quality parts are in them these days.

[FCOD]

The parts nowadays are made of tissue paper and crystal stemware and are about as reliable as Audi CVT transmissions.

Okay... So they're not that bad, but I've slowly been replacing the plastic and newer parts for older steel parts I've been finding.

[missiontrails]

You just had a bad part.... probably won't happen again.

[nbirnbaum2]

Sounds like a bad part... Ive shot well over 40k rounds between military M9' and my personal 92fs and M9. Only issue I ever had was a MIM guide rod, beretta sent me a new plastic one. 10 year old gun.

[hambam105]

appropriate for frame parts

It is the frame...or it's a part that is attached and hopefully fitted correctly to the frame. Firearms one-oh-one.

[hambam105]

I find it laughable that anyone would find it appropriate for frame parts to start breaking at such a low round count.

The only humor I get is how long the Beretta Pistol functioned properly without its OEM properly installed parts.

A round count of 3,500 in a few months is a healthy dose of usage for any pistol. I've seen plenty broken hammers & de-cockers & front and rear sight on stock martial pistols before with low round counts. But these pistols were dropped or used in force on force type classes with a strong emphasis on pistol retention .

I don't know who or what Wilson Combat is. But in this case, obviously, the Beretta pistol in question STB some 10 thousand rounds short of the standard issue M9's reputation.

And no, I'm not kidding about having a spare parts kit available with you at the range for your primary handgun. I am not about to remove parts from my secondary handgun to fix your primary handgun.

[FCOD]

Hambam. Have a snickers. You get a little angry when you're on the interwebz.

The only Wilson parts on the Beretta is a recoil spring, G10 grips and now the hammer release because apparently a Beretta one couldn't hang. Steel parts that are installed are all factory Beretta parts. The part that failed was a part that had not been replaced and was the factory installed hammer release.


...I simply don't feel like reading the rest of your post because it's clear you find it impossible that a standard beretta part failed prematurely.