The gorgeous Beretta 86 Cheetah, or: never meet your heroes

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November 15, 2025, 11:54 AM

92fstech

The gorgeous Beretta 86 Cheetah, or: never meet your heroes

What I would love to see is a re-design of the Cheetah platform to turn it into a locked-breach, DA/SA 9mm while retaining the form factor. It could be the convenient CCW version of the 92 that the Centurion and Compact models never really achieved.

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November 15, 2025, 04:48 PM

1KPerDay

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Originally posted by ThunTiger:
Beautiful 86.

European .380 is hotter than the domestic production and will help. S&B .380 FMJ runs great in my Cheetah.
You might want to try a fresh recoil spring.

I’ve had similar function issues in blowback pistols that have a weak recoil spring.

Interesting. Thanks!

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