#BERETTA 92FS MARKINGS SERIES#

The pistol is presented in standard-issue We-Tech “egg-shell” type packaging inside a robust cardboard box. Differences between pistols in the series, which have latterly been given the collective name of “Cheetah”, include variations in safety and trigger operation, magazine capacity (the Model 84 features a double-stack, 13 round magazine), trigger guard appearance, visibility of the slide-stop “cut-out” and even a forward tilting barrel on the Model 86 (an interesting concept and one which I would like to pursue having recently handled, but not shot, a real “tilting-barrel” Beretta at the Nakhon Sawan Shooting Club). The Beretta “Series 80” family of pistols was introduced in 1976 and were chambered for.

However, justification for another pistol so very similar to that of the M9 was a little difficult to find (even for me!), but a smaller model built along the same lines - well, that was a different story!Ĭomparison between the much larger, but visually and operationally similar, Beretta 92 (in this case an M9A1 made by KJ Works, also of Taiwan) I should like to add that since I already owned a KJ Works M9A1, I had been toying with the idea for a while of getting the more “rounded” and, in my opinion, more attractive Model 92. All feature the attractive, smooth curves and characteristic cut-out slide of the Beretta pistol the question was: were any replicas available? Having been quite pleasantly surprised with both the WE Tokarev and Browning, I thought I would go to their website first and was delighted to see their latest addition was a “Cheetah” Mini-92 which looks an awful lot like a Model 84FS (replicas of which I now realise are also made by Umarex in 4.5mm and Gun Heaven in both 4.5 and 6mm).Ī quick word with K.Don, the owner of my local shop, soon confirmed their availability in Thailand and so it was off to Suphanburi to have a closer inspection.

#BERETTA 92FS MARKINGS SERIES#

However, following a little research I soon discovered that in most cases the pistols shown would be either Model 1934s, Series 70s or Series 80 “Cheetahs”. This proved to be more of a challenge than I thought as IMDB does not have many of these more obscure movies listed and in the one that is given, “ Tenebrae”, the gun, although clearly belonging to the Beretta Series 80 family of pistols, does the lady in question little good as she is sitting next to a window instead of looking out of it… queue the ketchup!

Inspector Tellini (Giancarlo Giannini) comes face to face with the murderer in “Black Belly of the Tarantula” who has a penchant for pins (thereby saving his wife and solving the crimes…) What a guy! Naturally, I assumed this to be a Beretta and set-out to discover what model it was likely to be and if any replicas were available. Having recently re-discovered my passion for the classic Italian “giallo” films of the 60s, 70s and 80s, I often notice the protagonists, especially the intrepid police detectives, are armed with a small, but very handy, semi-automatic pistol.

Beretta 92fs markings