Just wanted to post up my latest Beretta purchase. I picked up this used but unfired USA made Beretta 92FS Inox. The interesting thing about this one is it uses the commercial M9 frame with the straight dust cover and no grip radius. Beretta made these available for a while about a year to 2 yrs ago. The Inox are being made in Italy now and are coming with the slanted dust cover only. I like the look of the straight dust cover so I had to do a little searching for this one. I found it on Gunbroker at a Pawn shop in Georgia. $600 shipped. Not bad. It came with it's original box and contents.
I thought I wasn't going to like the black controls Beretta uses now on their Inox models. After purchase I immediately starting searching for Inox parts on ebay, brownell's, etc. They are hard to come by and they cost a premium when you do find them. And wow, I didn't realize how many small parts it takes to make it a true Inox Beretta. So, I decided it would be a better idea to take all my black parts off and send them to Robar to be NP3'd. From research I did the NP3 finish is almost a perfect match to the Inox pistols. Now, anyone that knows Beretta knows they been building these newer Inox pistols (and bruntion) with some poly coated steel parts - the trigger, slide catch, safety levers, and mag release. Poly coated parts can't be NP3'd. So I needed to find a steel parts kit. I found a new old stock steel parts kit on Ebay for $37 shipped, it had all the parts I needed and then some. I got the parts kit and the first thing I noticed was the steel parts kit had a real nice, clean, flat black finish to them. The newer black controls used on the Inox pistol have a almost glossy black finish. I decided I want to see how the pistol looked with the flat black controls. So I put them on, and It looked great (IMO). I then decided to replace the stock rubber grip panels with the standard (flat blackish) grip panels. Walla, perfect match and a fantastic look. Now I have no desire to switch to Inox controls. I added a skeletonized hammer and a D hammer spring. I am satisfied with this one.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It looks much nicer in person.
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