hammer67
Active Member
I have a 96FS that I have a newer model Beretta conversion. I bought it years ago but only shot a few times. I took it out recently and ran a couple hundred rounds through it. I had too many malfunctions. I had failures to extract. The casing was in chamber and the extractor could not grab it. I had to get a knife to pry it out. It wasn't particularly tight. It seemed the extractor just couldn't get a good grab on it. In looking at the barrel and slide I noticed what I think is an issue. A regular 92 or 96 barrel has a complete cut out for the extractor. This barrel has a tapered cut out- at chamber the cut out is nearly complete but an 1/8" or so towards the muzzle the cut out ends so it is tapered between. Now when I slowly push slide forward to meet the barrel, the extractor goes in this cutout, but it hits the taper before fully forward and this pushes it slightly outward, leaving less of it to grab hold of the rim of the casing. I called Beretta and not very helpful. Couldn't tell me if this is normal. It is past the 3 yr warranty. I could send it in, but they may charge me. I think it is manufacturing defect? but without seeing others no way to know if this is normal? I was hoping they could tell me over the phone but no such luck. Thoughts?