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Posted: 5/17/2024 10:03:28 PM EDT
I was up having a few beers and saw Aim Surplus had Beretta APX on sale for $299. Seemed like a good deal so I ordered one. I never fired or handled one. What am I in for?
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Posted: 5/17/2024 10:28:29 PM EDT
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They’re decent blasters
Would have done better with better marketing. Nothing super special, just a polymer wonder 9 |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 10:48:05 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Sixgun357: I was up having a few beers and saw Aim Surplus had Beretta APX on sale for $299. Seemed like a good deal so I ordered one. I never fired or handled one. What am I in for? I Saw them a couple weeks ago for 199 after rebate. Anyway last year I bought mine for a $199 and it's probably the Best you can get for 200 bucks.. Mine is the apx a1 carry. What sucks about it is it only holds eight rounds with the extended magazine. the trigger is pretty awful. The nice thing about it is. It's pretty small so it works well for specific situations.. The Springfield hellcat is the same size and holds twice as much.. It also costs a little bit more than twice as much. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:24:35 AM EDT
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I have an APX A1 that's not too bad.
Not as butt ugly as the regular APX. For a while there I was attempting to get 1 of everyone's full size 9mm. Another that somebody had cheaper last week was the Ruger Security9. But I have one of those already. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 6:51:17 PM EDT
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Tier 1 ergos, one of the most comfortable handguns in the hand.
Tier 2 trigger. I think the APX would be better served by a shelf on the trigger safety similar to the newest M&P style. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:21:20 PM EDT
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Picked up the gun today. I found it surprising comfortable in the hand. Slide is heavier than my 19X, reminds me of my Gen 5 Glock 23. It gives it a good balance. The trigger face feels nice on my finger and the trigger isn't bad, pretty decent for striker fired gun. The manual is in Portugese. Over all I think it was a nice pick up.
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Posted: 5/20/2024 6:02:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RockolaM1]
[#6]
I like the APX, but I'm going to wait for them to be marked down.
If the stock on the website is accurate, they have over 2000+ APX's. The APX has never sold very well, I think it's going to take a very long time to move that many. |
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Posted: 5/20/2024 6:44:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: homeyclaus]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OverScoped: I Saw them a couple weeks ago for 199 after rebate. Anyway last year I bought mine for a $199 and it's probably the Best you can get for 200 bucks.. Mine is the apx a1 carry. What sucks about it is it only holds eight rounds with the extended magazine. the trigger is pretty awful. The nice thing about it is. It's pretty small so it works well for specific situations.. The Springfield hellcat is the same size and holds twice as much.. It also costs a little bit more than twice as much. APX "Carry" models are completely different from the rest. OP, the full size APX is a fine service pistol, remarkable only because of the divisive slide design. It is worth it to completely strip down the slide and serialized frame to get all the oil the factory put there out. Mine are stupid reliable, and accurate enough. The extra heft makes it suck less to shoot all day long, like at courses and stuff, if you're into that. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/22/2024 10:46:14 PM EDT
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Ordered one from AIM yesterday and picked it up today
 Have 3 more magazines on order. Seems like a decent pistol |
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Posted: 5/26/2024 9:30:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OverScoped: I Saw them a couple weeks ago for 199 after rebate. Anyway last year I bought mine for a $199 and it's probably the Best you can get for 200 bucks.. Mine is the apx a1 carry. What sucks about it is it only holds eight rounds with the extended magazine. the trigger is pretty awful. The nice thing about it is. It's pretty small so it works well for specific situations.. The Springfield hellcat is the same size and holds twice as much.. It also costs a little bit more than twice as much. I have 2 of the APX A1 carry pistols, but also just got one of the Brazilian police surplus APX full size pistols AIM is selling for $300. Very different pistols. OP, mine looks to be brand new, came with 2, 17 round mags, and a manual in Portuguese  I am not a trigger snob, but the trigger on this sucks ass. It's worse than the APX A1 carry pistols |
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Posted: 5/26/2024 9:33:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RockolaM1: I like the APX, but I'm going to wait for them to be marked down. If the stock on the website is accurate, they have over 2000+ APX's. The APX has never sold very well, I think it's going to take a very long time to move that many. In the thread I started in GD, someone predicted AIM would be blasting them out at $200 at some point. If so I will order at least 1 more. |
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Posted: 5/28/2024 4:22:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: colklink]
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@Sixgun357 when you get yours, would you mind field stripping it and taking a picture of your recoil spring assembly?
This is mine, I think it's defective. I have a new one coming from Brownells.  Attached File Attached FileIn the second blurry picture, you can see where the take down lever is grinding against the end. It's a bitch to rotate it. The drawn picture on Beretta dot com of the part doesn't look retarded like mine  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/28/2024 9:14:23 PM EDT
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I got it, next time I am in my "office" I will do that. Might be a day or two I have to work 12 hour shifts the next 3 days.
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Posted: 5/29/2024 6:33:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sixgun357: I got it, next time I am in my "office" I will do that. Might be a day or two I have to work 12 hour shifts the next 3 days. Whenever you can. I appreciate it. |
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Posted: 5/29/2024 6:49:18 AM EDT
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Bought a APX Carry with the Burris Optic already mounted last year during one of the rebate periods. I like Berettas but the APX Carry is absolute garbage. One trip to the range and I traded it in loosing money. Trigger is one of the worst triggers I have ever felt in a while. I regret telling people about the rebate.
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Posted: 5/29/2024 7:15:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hickunit: Bought a APX Carry with the Burris Optic already mounted last year during one of the rebate periods. I like Berettas but the APX Carry is absolute garbage. One trip to the range and I traded it in loosing money. Trigger is one of the worst triggers I have ever felt in a while. I regret telling people about the rebate. The trigger on the one I have shot a few hundred rounds through has smoothed and lightened a lot. But yes, out of the box they have a shit trigger. |
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Posted: 5/30/2024 2:10:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: The trigger on the one I have shot a few hundred rounds through has smoothed and lightened a lot. But yes, out of the box they have a shit trigger. For about the 87th time in the last 12 months I think about one of these and then always read this. |
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Posted: 5/30/2024 8:38:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mooreshawnm: For about the 87th time in the last 12 months I think about one of these and then always read this. They do improve dramatically. I am talking about the APX A1 carry. The little, single stack pistol. |
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Posted: 5/30/2024 8:49:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: They do improve dramatically. I am talking about the APX A1 carry. The little, single stack pistol. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: For about the 87th time in the last 12 months I think about one of these and then always read this. They do improve dramatically. I am talking about the APX A1 carry. The little, single stack pistol. Exactly the little cheap one which comes in a color that almost matched my truck! |
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Posted: Yesterday 8:37:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By colklink: @Sixgun357 when you get yours, would you mind field stripping it and taking a picture of your recoil spring assembly? This is mine, I think it's defective. I have a new one coming from Brownells. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/17974/1000010233_jpg-3225961.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/17974/1000010234_jpg-3225962.JPG In the second blurry picture, you can see where the take down lever is grinding against the end. It's a bitch to rotate it. The drawn picture on Beretta dot com of the part doesn't look retarded like mine https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/17974/1000010235_jpg-3225964.JPG @colklink  Attached File |
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Posted: Yesterday 8:50:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sixgun357: @colklink https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5215/IMG_2762_jpeg-3228493.JPG Thank you sir. I have no idea what the hell happened to mine? Oh well, I paid $20 plus shipping for a new one, should be here next week. What do you think of the trigger? I have Glocks, M&Ps, P320, a VP9, Daggers, a Steyr M9 and C9, and a couple APX A1 carry pistols. I can say without a doubt that the APX has the worst trigger pull of any striker pistol I have tried. |
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Posted: Yesterday 9:44:05 PM EDT
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I was messing with it tonight and could not figure out if I liked it or not. It's definitely different than a Glock, closer to my 320's trigger but has a weird break. Thinking I might take it out to the range tomorrow.
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