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I had a factory threaded barrel and PX4 hammer CPII plated. I finally got around to swapping the hammer in...being a frame safety, its quite tedious if you don't have three hands.

I also finally got a stamp back on my pair of Liberty Centurions, so its nice to not have a HUGE 45acp can on the gun.





 
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While I had it apart, I did a mild action tune on it...polishing the hammer spring, trigger bar and hammer strut. I'd already stoned and polished the feed strip on the slide so it has a very nice feel. I also stoned the sear hook on the hammer and did a nice polish on the surfaces.

Nice trigger overall but not really worked over too much. This one doesn't get shot much as I have an e-nickel frame safety 92 that's my go-to for range time.
 
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Looking good. Where are the grips from?
 
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KSD in Turkey. Took a bit of fitting to get them to work, notably around the right-side safety to clear it without putting pressure on the wood.
 
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It is a wonderful looking pistol.
 
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You have shown this pistol before,(I never get tired of looking at it by the way), but I never noticed it had a M9 frame. Did you have to machine out the holes for the thumb safety? That is a nice franken gun with, I am sure, quite of bit of time in it. Cool project.
 
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One of the nicest Berettas I have seen yet.
 
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Awesome.

How much work is the frame safety conversion?
 
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Looks great, PGT

How do you like the Liberty suppressor?



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If that was a factory gun I couldn't get my greedy little mitts on one fast enough. Great job.
 
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Beautiful! I wish Beretta made the frame mounted safety guns more affordable.
 
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oh wow, that is one GORGEOUS pistol!!!



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I must say it again...though I'm not sure I said it before...but I meant to if I didn't: that's quite the attractive assemblage of parts that you've got there. Sweet enough to make those normally fugly Mec-Gar +2 bases acceptably okay-looking

Well, almost. Wink

The quirks and latent issues of the 92 series are well-known and too often repeated. But damn do they make for a timeless beaut of a pistol.
 
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Ok...I have to ask, how did you get that slide?

You didn't actually cannibalize a Billenium did you?
 
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Originally posted by darkest2000:
Ok...I have to ask, how did you get that slide?

You didn't actually cannibalize a Billenium did you?


I’ve seen Billenium slides but only with the billboard roll marks.



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Ok...I have to ask, how did you get that slide?

You didn't actually cannibalize a Billenium did you?


I emailed PGT about it. This is actually 3 billenium pistols to make this one. For a modest 7,485 he will sort one out for you too... :}



Nah, he got the slide from beretta a few years back, put it on the m9 and went from there.
 
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I’ve seen Billenium slides but only with the billboard roll marks.


Well I figured his was refinished since the Billenium slide markings were only light laser etched, it wouldn't be hard to remove them completely.
 
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Nah, he got the slide from beretta a few years back, put it on the m9 and went from there.


Did he have to pull some strings to get it? Boy, I sure would love to get some special slides from Beretta for my projects...
 
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Originally posted by DSgrouse:
Nah, he got the slide from beretta a few years back, put it on the m9 and went from there.


Did he have to pull some strings to get it? Boy, I sure would love to get some special slides from Beretta for my projects...


IIRC he said it was on their website in the parts area.
 
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