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Looks just like my PK380. Really fits my hands nicely! Plus it's a joy to shoot as I can easily work the slide with my aged hands! LOL about being in the mud with the truck. I'm off to run the Mojave Trail road in 2 weeks. Tent camping all the way! I do enjoy overlanding now too! 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali. 33inch BFG K02's. Stock.

I did it again, I wasn't looking for a new bike (yes I was, M109R) but somehow I discovered the Royal star and now its sitting in my driveway Hi my name is Eric and I just brought home a 2009 royal star I live in Illinois on the Wisconsin border. I have owned over 10 bikes ranging from an RM125 to viragos, CB750. GS550E, concours,VTX1300 and so on. my first ride was last night and I can say it was very comfortable and has great pickup to say my new bike is super clean would be an understatement

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@OrlinEngh started his thread about winter accomplishments and I thought about posting this there with my grandkids but thought "Tony" the Beretta (you get that? If so you are probably in geezer world too and might want to consider the whole bucket list thing too ) deserved his own page so here we are.. I know,, LOTS of shooters hate these things they have been around a longg time and there are other makes/models available now that accomplish the tasks of downranging ammo better BUT,, bucket list for me they are not.. The Beretta "92" has been around a longgggg time and I have ALWAYS wanted one.. Years ago, while shooting with my dad on the Police Range in Muskegon (he was a cop at the time and I was just a young Puc of maybe 6 or 7) my dad pointed out to me the importance of finding a hand gun that would come to true point of aim. "It should be an extention of your pointer finger" he would say.. Later in life I found myself going thru hundreds of shooters at swap meets (good old days) handling everything I could touch in search of that one special shooter and attempting to find a handgun like dad had taught me. I have owned MANY handguns and nothing,, not even the 29 Smith I hunted with back then, had that advantage. Then one day I found it! I lifted a Beretta 92F off the bench at a show, turned on its laser when I pointed at the wall about 75 yards away and was SHOCKED to find its "point of aim" accuracy for me. THE MAGIC WAS THERE!! Sadly I went thru life,, raising a family,, chasing across America and Canada on a Yamaha Venture, riding race tracks, playing in the snow on snowmobiles,, you know the routine,, but never ever did get to have a 92F. Till now!! Introducing Tony,, my brand new Beretta 92A1!! WHAT A MACHINE!!

Nice looking buy. Sign up and become part of the family. The only requirement is that you not be 100% sane. All kidding aside this is one great group. Many of us have become great friends both on and off site and been here for many years.

Very Nice! Welcome to the looney bin!

SNAP CAPS finally came in!! Now I can work out developing trigger group fire control,,, sooo much fun!! Like shooting my 1911, I got enough of them and bought the ones that are actual 124 grain dummy rounds that I can randomly sew them into Tony's 17 round mags for monitoring my trigger control during actual firing. I am really enjoying the change over from Tony's DA trigger to his SA trigger, definitely challenging in control. The stock hammer spring on the 92 is 20 pounds, I have 16, 17, 18 and 19's pounders coming. I am told the "normal" thing the Beretta guys do is drop to a "D" spring (16 pounds) to cut back on DA trigger pull. I would have just gone that route but I wonder just how usable that 16 pounder will be for rimfire usage. Plan is to try the 16 first and if I do not get any FTF's in my 22lr conversion kit I will go ahead and order 12, 13, 14 and 15 pounders to adjust downwardly until I do get the FTF's.. Like learning to slow ride in a parking lot = Practice practice practice!!

Yeah, it's a tow strap. 😒 But because my skid plate was up against a rock under that mud it was replaced by a tow strap on the back to the red monster. The tow strap on the front was attached in the right spot, that is one of the factory tow hooks. But.....all that plastic is about to come off. I just bought a 12,000 lb. winch and have an off-road bumper with winch mount ordered. I am in the very beginning stages of building that little truck into an overlanding rig. A 3" lift and 33" BFG KM3 Mud-Terrains are in the plans. It is going to be a multi-year project but it will be an extremely capable little 4x4 when I am done. It is actually quite capable now in stock form. If it hadn't been for the rock up against the skid plate that stopped my forward progress I would not have had any trouble with that mud hole. This just happens to be one of the rare GMC Canyons with the factory installed 5.3L V8. 😁

Monst NAILED this one!! Check this out!!