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Hi folks. I'm wondering if any gunsmiths/instructors might be able to shed some light on this for me.
I have a Beretta 92fs which I bought used from Turners about six months ago. While it feeds and functions flawlessly, even with the Mec-Gar after market mags I bought for it (seller apparently kept the mags), it always seems to shoot low and to the left for me. Now, I'm no great pistol shot or anything, but I feel like I have reasonable trigger control and usually manage to put bullets where I'm aiming with almost all the other guns I own, but I feel like maybe the Beretta I bought is just a lemon.
A couple of things: the gun has a pretty good ding/scratch on the front of the barrel. The position of the scratch is in the 4:00-4:30 position if you were looking at the business end of the muzzle. The nature of the scratch is such that either the gun was dropped on cement, or perhaps it was in a holster where the muzzle was exposed, and whoever was wearing it had the muzzle resting on some hard, abrasive surface ( like say, a concrete park bench or something) then suddenly got up and scraped the front of the barrel in the process. I bought the gun thinking that this was just a cosmetic flaw which I could deal with, since the scrape didn't extend inside the bore and affect the rifling.
However, as mentioned, it consistently prints low and to the left. I suppose I could just drift the sights to the right and aim high, but it bugs me that a handgun well known for being accurate/precise (thanks csacanoneer!
), is anything but for me. In addition to being low and to the left, the groups are likewise reminiscent of a Red Ryder.
One other thing I noticed (which may or may not be normal - Beretta owners can perhaps shed light) is that on the ouside of the barrel, there are wear marks where apparently the barrel contacts the front portion of the slide where it loops over the top of the barrel. The wear is only on the left side of the barrel. If I'm holding the pistol and looking down the sights, the wear pattern on the barrel is located from between the 9:00 position up to about the 11:00 position.
My conclusion is that perhaps the previous owner dinged up his gun, probably bent the barrel ever so slightly, and it's crookedness is now contributing to the lack of accuracy, even if it still functions reliably. That could explain why the gun was sold wihout mags - maybe he figured he'd dump his lemon on a sucker like me, then just buy a new Beretta and keep the mags.
Hope I'm wrong, though. It's not often that I regret a gun purchase, but I'm starting to regret this one.
I have a Beretta 92fs which I bought used from Turners about six months ago. While it feeds and functions flawlessly, even with the Mec-Gar after market mags I bought for it (seller apparently kept the mags), it always seems to shoot low and to the left for me. Now, I'm no great pistol shot or anything, but I feel like I have reasonable trigger control and usually manage to put bullets where I'm aiming with almost all the other guns I own, but I feel like maybe the Beretta I bought is just a lemon.
A couple of things: the gun has a pretty good ding/scratch on the front of the barrel. The position of the scratch is in the 4:00-4:30 position if you were looking at the business end of the muzzle. The nature of the scratch is such that either the gun was dropped on cement, or perhaps it was in a holster where the muzzle was exposed, and whoever was wearing it had the muzzle resting on some hard, abrasive surface ( like say, a concrete park bench or something) then suddenly got up and scraped the front of the barrel in the process. I bought the gun thinking that this was just a cosmetic flaw which I could deal with, since the scrape didn't extend inside the bore and affect the rifling.
However, as mentioned, it consistently prints low and to the left. I suppose I could just drift the sights to the right and aim high, but it bugs me that a handgun well known for being accurate/precise (thanks csacanoneer!
), is anything but for me. In addition to being low and to the left, the groups are likewise reminiscent of a Red Ryder. One other thing I noticed (which may or may not be normal - Beretta owners can perhaps shed light) is that on the ouside of the barrel, there are wear marks where apparently the barrel contacts the front portion of the slide where it loops over the top of the barrel. The wear is only on the left side of the barrel. If I'm holding the pistol and looking down the sights, the wear pattern on the barrel is located from between the 9:00 position up to about the 11:00 position.
My conclusion is that perhaps the previous owner dinged up his gun, probably bent the barrel ever so slightly, and it's crookedness is now contributing to the lack of accuracy, even if it still functions reliably. That could explain why the gun was sold wihout mags - maybe he figured he'd dump his lemon on a sucker like me, then just buy a new Beretta and keep the mags.
Hope I'm wrong, though. It's not often that I regret a gun purchase, but I'm starting to regret this one.
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