For 1911 fans, that falls somewhere between a custom-fit light trigger and an old-school USGI trigger that actually works.

They put something else in the envelope as a bonus: a reduced-power striker spring assembly.įor a striker-fired plastic fantastic, the trigger of the APX is pretty good. Something we particularly like is that each spacer has a flare at the bottom to hold the hand in place. There’s no active retention on the OEM magazine spacers therefore, just slide out of the way if they aren’t already at the bottom of the magazine body. The same can be said if you want to run a 15-rounder in the Compact. And if you want to run a 17-round magazine in a Centurion? No gaps. To sweeten the pot, they also included their new magazine spacers. Hit the nail on the head.ĭespite us breaking the mag release from going Mongo on it, Beretta was quick to send out a replacement. Beretta rep Eric Stern reminded of us this parable when we talked about what we broke. The story goes that you could put a Marine in a locked room with three ball bearings, 10 minutes later one of the ball bearings would be broken, one of them would be pregnant, and one of them would be missing. This time around, the uncomfortable pause and the exclamation of “really?!” made us believe it. Normally, if a company is called and we’re told we’re the first to break something, we think it’s a lie. While switching the mag release around for the statistically insignificant left-handed population, we totally broke the mechanism. Regardless, we like seeing a near-universal system (are you reading this, Glock?). Doubling the problem is that the Centurion/Compact frame is just slightly wider than the fullsize.

This isn’t because the barrel lockup is different (it isn’t), but because the recoil spring assembly of the compact just doesn’t quite fit inside the frame. The one mash-up you cannot do is throw a Compact slide on a fullsize frame a la Glock 19X.

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