Got this little blaster in last week and headed to the range for the video below.
Pros:
-100% reliable to date
-grip texture
-improved serrations over larger APXs
-steel sights
-chassis system so you can swap grips should they choose to make a 43x/48 issue offering one day
Cons:
-trigger
Review:
[video=youtube_share;0Ay3FzWtt7c]https://youtu.be/0Ay3FzWtt7c[/video]
Dear Glock: Where’s my factory extended 43 mags?
Soooo, is it a repackaged Nano?
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Great review as always MGNG.
I’m sure it’s a decent little gun, but IMO, Beretta keeps trying to raise the bar on ugly with every reiteration of their polymer pistol lines.
Well, seeing the mag and hearing the description of the trigger pull… sounds like it is the NANO in a new shell. Yuck.
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Thank you for the review.
I could accept the trigger pull on the Nano but the extreme height over bore and the fact that mine shot 10 inches about POA at 7 yards killed it for me.
It would be pretty much right on then @ 100 yards :help:
that’s why I never picked one up as well.
I picked up an APX A1 Carry recently.
I took it to the range today and put 50rds of Geco 124gr FMJ through it. It passed the first test of carry guns; it was 100% reliable. From there it was downhill. The trigger is pretty bad with it mainly having a reset that’s too long. Accuracy was poor. Often times bullets were just not going where I was pointing. I wasn’t having a bad day either. I followed this pistol with my S&W M&P 10mm which showed incredible accuracy. The large magazine holds 8 cartridges and the smaller one holds 7 cartridges. An odd thing is that after a cartridge is chambered, the smaller magazine can’t be topped back to 7 cartridges and then lock in the pistol. So I guess you get to carry 9 with the large magazine or 7 with the small magazine. I’d choose the former because it offers a better grip anyway. The really bad part was that the rear sight came loose while I was shooting the second magazine through it.
The rear sight was not held in with a a press fit at all even though it’s dovetailed. Apparently they expect a set screw to do the job. The set screw was still in the sight, so it apparently wasn’t screwed down tight enough. I could fix this myself, but I think that I’ll entertain myself by sending the slide back to Beretta for repair. We’ll get to see how their customer service handles the situation.
Once I receive my rebate I’ll have $245 total in to this pistol. I suppose it’s worth that, but it’s obviously not a gun that I’d trust my life to. I think Beretta could have done better. On a positive note, I do like the size of the pistol and I think it does look better than the first generation.
I got one and it sawed through a bunch of different ammo with zero issues. I put a Holosun 407K on it, and it was pretty much dead on right out of the box. Accuracy was fine, I had no problems punching ragged holes in the targets with it at 30 and 50 feet. The trigger, like most striker guns, is just odd to me, very “doinky”, but my main complaint is the, (IMHO) excessive texturing on the front and rear of the grip and the front of the bottom of the mags. Once it was shot and had no problems, and since it was so cheap, $189 with rebate, I had no fear of modding it, so a little while ago, I took a sanding stick and took the points off the sharp nubs on it. Much better, I actually like the grip now. I admit, I do not like the excessive “grippyness” that many people seem to love. The sandpaper like areas on grips is fine, but pyramids, spikes, etc, are a turn off for me. The worst gun I’ve had recently was an FN FNS-40, and I really hated the grip and since I got it so cheap, and could sell it for a small profit, I just sold it off.
Did you actually get a rebate? They screwed me. But there is still a chance I get one on the M21A .22 I shouldn’t have bought.
What happened? I forgot to cash a rebate check that they sent me. When I found it in my glove box, it was past the 90 or 100 days allowed. I called and they reissued a check which I promptly cashed. So, I was actually very pleased because they could have easily said too bad.
They said one application didn’t include a receipt, but a “packing slip”.
The gun only came with one paper & it was a combined packing list and receipt. It had the buisness, price, date, , my name & address, model number and serial number. And I circled those items.
When I noticed the application was denied, they replied the rebate period was over & nothing could be done.
The other they said the serial number was ineligible. I responded that I double-checked everything, the model number was clearly covered and selected on the application, and they received a picture of that gun with its serial number.
They said they’d “investigate” that. Haven’t heard back. I’ll never buy another rebated gun unless I’m happy paying full price.
I just checked again.
They also said the 1st one wasn’t a valid serial number, either. So I buy a gun with a model number specifically covered, PX4 model XXXXX or whatever it was, then they say the serial number (which is photographed right off the gun) is not valid. Scamming assholes.
That is absolutely a bunch of crap.
The response I got seemed to be positive. I’ve never been stiffed on a gun rebate before, but a couple took a LONG time to show up. One was over a year, and I had totally forgotten about it. It came in handy as I was short that month.
I had a couple S&W rebates that paid after many months.
Obviously, they are investing the money for profit then giving back the principal, minus inflation.
Or in my cases, keeping all of it.