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Moreover, some may try to decock by holding back the hammer and depressing the trigger while lowering the hammer. The first round is a longer trigger pull, which has a tendency to make shooters miss because of early anticipation. The DA/SA feature is okay, but not ideal. The sling shot method is not the best practice when fighting under major stress. To avoid that, shooters should use the sling shot method, but that’s old school and doesn’t account for gross motor skill usage. That’d be bad in the middle of a gunfight. Unfortunately, a lot of mandatory training on suicide prevention, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, and all the other warfighting tasks, precludes troops from getting a lot of training with a secondary weapon like a pistol.Īdditionally, having a safety on top of the slide means that when performing malfunction drills, or when manipulating the slide during a reload, shooters might accidentally put the weapon in “safe” mode. To create muscle memory means thousands of draw strokes. Talk about a tactical inconvenience!Īgain, drawing and putting the gun into a “fire” position by manipulating the safety lever takes a lot of time and practice. So, keeping the gun on “fire” simply hasn’t been an option for many troops. Unfortunately, the military mandated that the weapon stated on “safe” when holstered or at any other time besides shooting. Especially if they can’t get to a two-handed grip because they’re other hand is occupied striking someone in the face or holding an unslung weapon.
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Remember, those with small hands would have to manipulate that safety with their support hand, meaning they couldn’t take the weapon off of safe until they got a two-handed grip. That is, if they can even do it with their dominant hand. Many military unit supervisors like their troops to keep the weapon on safe, but drawing and manipulating an external safety under stress takes a lot of practice. The safety/decock lever on the Beretta causes serious problems for the gunfighter. Regardless, there are more problems than size issues with the Beretta. Really, that’s just saying they’ll likely go with a gun that has the option to make a grip larger or smaller (read, interchangeable grip). In the next go round, the Army’s going to go with a MHS. Since the military needs to make everything an acronym, they decided to make up the MHS acronym (Modular Handgun System). Going with something that can fit more hands is good, especially with all the females in the service, who typically have smaller hands. For one thing, the gun simply doesn’t fit the hand of a lot of service members. Today, frankly, I think it’s a good idea that the Army is going away from the Beretta. I have pretty big hands, so the gun seemed to be a part of me-a natural extension of my arm. I loved carrying the Beretta because of it’s size and the amount of ammo I could carry, but that’s about all. With the competition for the next Modular Handgun System (MHS) under way, many believe a new weapon will soon replace the Beretta M9 as the official sidearm of the US military. Caliber aside, let’s talk strictly function and tactics. However, some say that the 9mm isn’t strong enough and opt for a. The only time too much ammo is bad is when you’re swimming or on fire. The high capacity Beretta mag holds 15 (plus one in the chamber), which is good. In 1985 the military chose to go with the Beretta 92F as the new service pistol, going away from the 1911 in.