Beretta 92X Defensive

Beretta 92X Defensive

Two years after its first presentation, the new Beretta 92X Performance expands the sporting potential of the platform, this time with a series of modifications dedicated to IDPA shooting.

Produced in only 300 units, the Beretta 92X Performance Defensive broadly maintains the characteristics that made the 92X Performance model famous and popular in such a short time, but with some “adjustments” developed in collaboration with the Beretta champions Eduardo De Cobos and Roberto Vezzoli, aimed at aligning weapon specifications with IDPA regulations.

In particular, the weight has been reduced: thanks to the removal of the Picatinny rail on the steel frame, the lightening millings inside the Vertec-type grip and other modifications, the Beretta 92X Performance Defensive now weighs only 1210 grams. The barrel remains 4.9 inches (125 mm) long, for a total length adequate for insertion into the well-known “box” which determines the total size of regular firearms for IDPA competitions .

Given the retention of many of the features of the 92X Performance version – shape and size of the Hold Open lever, the disassembly lever, the ambidextrous manual safety on the barrel and the reversible magazine release button – the new Beretta 92X Performance Defensive fits specifically as a weapon for use in the IDPA Enhanced Service Pistol (ESP) category.

As in the basic 92X Performance version, the Beretta 92X Performance Defensive is chambered in 9×21 IMI for the Italian market; the two-wire magazine in sheet steel offers the standard capacity of 15 + 1 shots that distinguishes the Beretta 92 platform.

The 92X Performance Defensive slide – of the Vertec type, with front and rear “sawtooth” handling grooves – features the same adjustable rear sight and fixed front sight with fiber optic insert as the Performance model. In addition, on the Performance Defensive we find an installation system of a mounting interface for micro Red Dot type optics, increasingly popular on sports and defense/service weapons.

Among the other features of the 92X Performance Defensive, we include a Match trigger in mixed single/double action and a set of Wraparound grips, in black synthetic, which replace the thinner ones installed at the factory on the weapon, and which in addition to enhancing the captivating stainless steel finish of the barrel and slide allow the firearm to be adapted for use by shooters of any physiognomy.