This ultimately caused the springs to lose their strength. Because of this belief a large number of troops who experienced problems attempted to fix it by disassembling the magazines, removing the springs, and stretching them out (based on actual testimony given by the troops). The reason for this belief was because when the magazines first started to fail, the common belief was that the springs were the problem. "You are correct there were a number of reports that the springs used in our magazines were defective. In March of 2007, on the Beretta forum, Jackie provided the following information: Based on my experiences with them, Check-Mate susequently provided me with several generations of their new 8 round 1911 magazines, which I and our local IDPA club helped them to beta/field test Check-Mate has recently decided to sponsor 6 of us in our IDPA shooting. Two of them have been kept continuously loaded since 2007. All of these magazines have performed flawlessly, and been used for IDPA, carry, and steel plate competitions. Both were 12/05 dated magazines, and were dry film finished I've subsequently been provided with two additional magazines, both with stainless-steel springs. I received two of these magazines, one with a carbon steel spring, and one with their at that time experimental stainless-steel spring. At that timeframe, Jacquelyn Vieweg, the Business Development Manager of Check-Mate Industries decided to make a presence on both the Firing Line and the Beretta forums and discuss and clear the misconceptions regarding the magazines, and also provided samples to several of us on the Beretta forum for testing and review. Previously, I'd heard of them, but fell into the anecdotal camp of believing that they were problem-inducing junk and to be avoided at all costs. In 2007, I became aware of Check-Mate magazines. The gun came with two OEM Beretta 10-round magazines, and due to some judicious horse-trading in conjunction with the purchase, 3 MDS 15 round magazines I got the gun brand new in 2006, although it had been manufactured in 1996 (the DAO configuration and the replacement of its original 15 round magazines with 10 reound magazines undoubtably significantly hindered its salability). My 92D came with a set of excellent Trijicon sights as OEM sights, and despite thier 1996 installation, they're still glowing just fine (as well as having an excellent day sight picture). On my current 92D, the only changes that I've made have been to replace the stock grips with first a set of Uncle Mike's grips (as I did with my original military M9), and then with a set of Falcon Industries' Ergo Extreme Grips. I've subsequently owned several Beretta 92 pistols-a Police Special 92D Centurion, a 92F Compact Type M, and my current 92D. I maintained it with Army issue Break-Free, which worked just fine. At the time, I preferred my Ruger P85 and subsequently my SIG-Sauer P220 in 9mm, but I never had any problems with the M9. I wasn't particularly happy with the hemisphere-and dot front and rear sight configuration, and I replaced the grips on my PDW with a set of Uncle Mike's Craig Spegel-designed rubber grips. To the best of my recollection, at that time the magazines provided were Beretta manufactured-and they were fairly scarce, and jealously guarded by unit armorers, to the point of not being issued during field training exercise deployments for fear of loss/damage.ĭuring my exposure, use, and qualification with the M9 during my military service, I never had any problems with it. I was the XO of a CSS Group at the time, and as I had a proprietary interest in guns, I had a detailed look at the first group of 10 that came into my Group. By that time, the Beretta M9 had pretty much been issued down to the combat support and combat service support level units, as the Army had finally issued it throughout to both TOE and TDA units. Since both recently and currently we've had several threads on the forum here that concentrated on discussions regarding the relative qualities and problems perceived with Check-Mate magazines, I thought that it might be helpful to post a thread that might flesh out the discussions.Īs many of you know, I'm a former field grade Army officer-I've been out since 1992.
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