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Regular Guy Training on the Beretta M9A4
Oct
Is a stock Beretta M9A4 flatter than the Glock you already shoot? Regular Guy Training borrowed one from a student and calls this a 6,000 round review. They say the heavier frame is what keeps the return flat, and that the single action reset is an eighth of an inch.
What they cover: a borrowed Beretta M9A4. They describe it as a 92X RDO with a different finish, a threaded barrel, and night sights. On their scale, the slide with a dot mounted, minus the barrel and recoil spring, is 14.4 ounces. They call a Glock 34 slide 14.6 ounces, and they note the optics may not match. The M9A4 frame is 12.2 ounces. The Glock 34 frame is 5.3. With the barrel and spring on, they weigh the M9A4 at 2 pounds and the Glock 34 at 1 pound 9 ounces. They picked the Glock 34 because both are 5 inch pistols, in their words. They say the return is almost neutral in stock form, with no compensator and no ports, and flatter than that Glock 34. The lever decocks the pistol. It is not a manual safety. The grip arrives at a straight angle, and the included panels bring it back to an M9 profile. They say those panels hold wet or dry. The double action is smoother, not necessarily lighter. After the first shot, they say the single action travels an eighth of an inch from the weight stack to the break, in line with a production 1911, and as good or a little better than most production 1911 and 2011 triggers they have shot. Learning the two presses took them 20 minutes. In the first thousand rounds the only repeatable problem was theirs. The single action break sits farther back than they are used to, so at 25 yards a shot meant for the heart box of a USPSA target landed outside that box. They tracked the dot on Beretta’s own plate. They still want a thinner plate, so taller sights will clear it. They do not think a suppressor is why the threaded barrel matters. They want the extra barrel for a compensator or ports later, and they have not installed Langdon parts. A student loaned the pistol. Beretta did not. They rank Glock magazines ahead of Beretta magazines. They say holsters are the hard part, and they are using a T‑Rex Arms Ragnarok and a sidecar cut for the M9A4. Specific claims and results in the video are theirs, not ours. It is one endurance review of about 42 minutes. They do not give a group size or a stoppage count.
Here’s our take. Buy the M9A4 if you want the heavier frame and the threaded barrel they describe, and you are willing to hunt for a holster. Skip it if you want a polymer gun the weight of that Glock 34, or the ported Langdon build they talk about and have not done. The flat return, the ounce counts, and the eighth of an inch are their scale and their trigger. We did not rerun any of it.
We stock the Beretta M9A4 they are covering. On the shelf: the M9A4 9mm Flat Dark Earth. Related: the M9A4 Overlanding in Clay and the M9A4 Overlanding in Lunar. Those two are Cerakote finishes. The video does not name the finish on the borrowed pistol. Complete firearm. Indiana FFL transfer through Wulfy’s. Ask us for current fees.
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