![]() Erik Stern, Associate Product Manager at Beretta’s Pro Shop, explained the reasons for this feature on a pistol forum, saying, “Tradition mostly. 45 caliber GLOCK 21 when you measure all the way across to the protuberances forming the grasping grooves.Īnother unique feature is a plunger on the slide rises as the trigger is brought back and falls back into the slide when the shot is fired. The slide of the APX is wider than on a 9mm GLOCK, more like a. The rationale of this is to give the support hand traction in emergency operations during the worst conditions of inclement weather and stress, where a shaky, wet hand might hit the wrong part of the slide when clearing a dud round or completing a slide-lock reload. The raised segments are a little over 0.10-inch high, protruding from slide flats roughly 0.40-inch apart, with an open space left on both sides of the slide in the region of the ejection port. The APX shares the general blocky silhouette of the GLOCK and its competitors, but its most striking visual departure from the rest of the pack is its approach to slide grasping grooves. In any case, Beretta-the world’s oldest manufacturer of anything, let alone firearms-has entered the striker-fired polymer parade. The Px4 is, however, going through a current resurgence of popularity, largely due to the efforts of Beretta maestro Ernest Langdon. ![]() As a result, the reliable little Px4 did not become a sales winner. ![]() Unfortunately, the Px4 lacked the panache of its famous sibling, the 92, and came out at a time when the training world was focusing on the KISS Principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and TDA pistols were going out of style. Beretta first entered the polymer pistol market with their rotary-breech Px4, a traditional double-action (TDA), hammer-fired pistol adaptable to double-action only. ![]()
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