
Originally Posted by
Cincinnatus
Speaking of weak TRS, look at the Beretta 92 series.
I am confident in HK far more than any other brand. Are the designs perfect? No design is. Do they have stellar QC and actually test fire each gun? Yes.
And there's nothing wrong with MIM when you have excellent QC; it's when you have sloppy MIM and sloppy QC that problems arise.
You can find something that is likely to break inside 10,000 rds on any firearm maker's guns. Do HKs more commonly make it to 10,000 without breakages? Yes. In fact, most other brands have several service intervals with RSAs and even mag springs needing replaced BEFORE 5,000.
No, HK is not perfect, but it is enough for me.
Beretta has upgraded their TRS's and they're supposed to be on par with HK as far as replacement. I have a Inox Vertec who's TRS is probably approaching 5k with live and largely dry fire practice. I will say this, replacing the TRS on a Beretta 92 is much easier than a HK, the only special tool needed can be made from a paper clip. And that's for pulling the upper leg of the spring back to install the trigger bar. One could also spend $4 or so plus shipping and get a chrome-silicon TRS from Wilson Combat, and probably not have to worry about it again for a long time. I bought 2 of 'em and when the TRS in the Vertec gives up the ghost, it'll get replaced with a WC unit.. I believe WC makes a CS replacement spring for every spring in the Beretta 92. HK's MIM parts are, as far as I know made in-house, That probably explains why they rarely have trouble with them. One other thing I seem to remember about Beretta 92's..And, someone correct me if I'm wrong, But I seem to remember that the 92 series is one of the few pistols made that does NOT have any MIM parts in it.. Sure there's some plastic coated steel parts (trigger for example) but, unless things have changed, I don't think they have any MIM..
Last edited by ralph; 12-27-15 at 17:48.
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