Posted: 3/21/2007 8:31:26 AM EDT
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Hi all, I am going to be getting some replacement springs for my 92. Specificly a new recoil spring and a fresh trigger return spring. My questions are: 1. What recoil spring is good for 100% reliable feeding? I see weights from 9 lb. to 20 lb. or so. I mainly target shoot with WWB 115 grain, and occasionally shoot some 124+p loads. Probably 95%/5% 2. I have heard alot about the Wolf spring conversions, but are they really THAT good? A standard style Wolf replacement spring runs about 3 bucks. Is the problem with factory springs being faulty, or is it just the design thats bad? IE. does a standard Wolf spring stand to fail in the same way as a factory spring? Thanks in advance, Sam |
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Generally speaking, engineers at Beretta know more about gun design than most normal folks and the best replacement is the stock weight. I don't know off hand what that is. Stock will handle what most people shoot. When you start straying farther from the standard loadings, the different weight springs come into their own as it allows you to "tune" the gun to the load you're shooting. If your gun works fine now, I'd simply go with a direct replacement. The Wolf spring is a completely different design than the OEM trigger retrun spring. The OEM spring is a "leverage" type spring, in that it works like a leaf spring. One end is held in place and one acts on the trigger. Eventually the constant flexing will snap the end off. The current spring is designed so you can take it out, flip it around and it will work again until that end fails. The Wolf unit is a coil spring that goes directly behind the trigger. There isn't a stress point like the OEM spring because it's just a coil spring being compressed. It has a spring, retainer, and mount. It goes in easy, and once you look at it, you'll understand how it works. It's not so much that the OEM unit is so bad. Every part on any gun will wear out and many trigger springs never give any problem. I simply think that the Wolf design is much better than the OEM one. The fact that Beretta designs the spring to be flippind around in case of failure means they recognize that they do fail. I don't have the conversion in all my Berettas either. Range guns, where there are no big consequences if the spring fails, I just keep the OEM spring. Frankly, they haven't failed, but I don't really shoot them (M9 and Compact) as much as my "high-time" 92FS. The 92 gets shot quite a bit and doubles as the house gun. So I put the conversion in that one because it's most likely to fail and most likely to be a big problem if it does. If I were using something else as a house gun, I'd probably not bother with it. I think if you're actually going to use it as a defensive weapon, it's definately something to consider though. The conversion comes in different weights as well. I used the standard weight and it didn't change my trigger pull at all (which is what I wanted) since I already had a "D" mainspring installed. I have no experience with the other weights, so I don't know what they do. |
Call me crazy (many do  ), but I run about 2-3 lbs higher than stock in all of my semis. Something in me makes me think that slowing down the battering of the frame is a good thing. And yes, I know that it sends the slide forward a bit faster than OEM, but I feel the rd feeding eats that up, IMO. As long as the gun functions okay, I don't see any harm. YMMV on this.............If you hit the Wolff spring site, they list OEM stock poundage ratings in virtually every gun spring they list on their web site, IIRC? Good luck! 
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