Beretta following Taurus' lead....

[AJMD429]

I chose the Taurus over the Beretta because I like the 1911-style thumb safety.



But now Beretta is making another run of that style...



https://www.alloutdoor.com/2019/03/18/i ... on-pistol/

Maybe they will keep this model up and in production. I think the design is WAY more ergonomic than the push-forward one.

[J Miller]

I chose the Taurus over the Beretta because I like the 1911-style thumb safety.



But now Beretta is making another run of that style...



https://www.alloutdoor.com/2019/03/18/i ... on-pistol/

Maybe they will keep this model up and in production. I think the design is WAY more ergonomic than the push-forward one.

I like the Taurus more, but for one thing, the hooked front of the trigger guard. Never did like that design feature.

Did you notice:
The Taurus grip is curved on the back and straight on the front, but the Beretta is the opposite? I wonder how this would change the "feel" of the pistol when shooting it?

The top of the slide on both is open like the old Walther P38?

I think I like the Taurus better by the way it looks. More conservative, less busy to my eyes. Ther's too many groves, notches and angles on the Beretta.


Joe

[Bill in Oregon]

Liking that thumb safety as well, but always found the 92 huge for a 9mm -- and the Beretta does look garishly "busy."
Funny, but when I briefly worked at a Sportsmans Warehouse gun counter back about 2008, we had a lot of customers who were just back or home on leave from Iraq and Afghanistan and they craved to handle anything except the M-9. Didn't want to have anything to do with it.

[David]

I see a lot of people gravitating to the CZ 75, another pistol that if you can't hit them throw it at them.

[Pisgah]

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The top of the slide on both is open like the old Walther P38?

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Yep. The P-38 was one of the designs the 92 was based on (with the pivoting locking block), although the open-top slide was, I think, probably an original Beretta feature going 'way back to their original semiauto, the Model 1915.


I have also always preferred the frame-mounted safety of the Taurus. These days, both versions are whoppers in the 9mm category, but they're both rugged, reliable and accurate in my experience.

[marlinman93]

If you ever shoot with a two hand hold the shape of the Taurus trigger guard really works to help your off hand hold, and keep muzzle rise to a minimum. There's no place to put your off hand index finger on the rounded trigger guard.

[Old Savage]

David, I read that the CZ 75 is carried y more police in the world than anything else.

[David]

Well I one of my friends and my brother bought one and they do fit good in the hand, but honestly - I'll say this and promptly ignore - I really don't need anymore guns.
I'm trying to trim down my safes.