![]() The whole group was slightly right of center, or the target score would have been a perfect “possible” as it was, the tally was three-10s including an X, and two nines. The whole five-shot group measured only 2-1/4″ with the best three in 1-5/16″. Recoil was snappier, of course, but this turned out to be the ammo the baby Beretta liked most. On the other end of the power scale in the Winchester 9mm line is my general carry favorite, the Ranger-T 127 grain +P+. Score was 45 out of 50 possible points, or a respectable 90%. Those three “10s” were in a more pleasing 2-7/8″ group. On the 25-yard line, America’s most ubiquitous 9mm practice load, the 115-grain FMJ Winchester White Box, grouped 5-3/4″ for all five shots, with three of them in the 10 ring including a tie-breaker center X, with one clipping the nine-ring and another out in the seven zone. Only one tester felt the aggressive checkering was uncomfortable in firing.Ī huge tactical advantage of the APX Carry, which I’m surprised Beretta doesn’t advertise, is the recoil spring guide design allows the gun to fire at press-contact - it won’t go out of battery and become unshootable if you have to put it directly against an assailant’s body to fire, sometimes necessary when you’re in a belly-to-belly struggle with a criminal trying to murder you. The flush-bottom magazine conceals the best, at the price of two less rounds on board, and tucking the pinky tightly under the butt still affords a solid firing grasp. The flanged mag came halfway down my pinky finger - not comfortable at all. All testers of both genders preferred the long magazine for shooting because it gave a firm purchase for all the fingers. ![]() Recoil wasn’t bothersome for anyone who shot it, including female instructors. The front and back of the grip-frame are aggressively stippled and the gun never moved in our hands when we shot it. The sights were decent: big and blocky with a single non-illuminated white dot up front. Trigger reach was perfect for my average-sized adult male hand, too. ![]() Stern was right about the “ergos.” The old Nano pointed low in my hand, something of a deal-breaker for me but the APX Carry pointed where I wanted it - if I closed my eyes and brought it up to the target, it was spot-on when I opened my eyelids. and includes a nice little nylon carry case for the pistol an eight-round extended mag a six-round magazine with a pinky rest and a flush floorplate for the latter to give a third configuration option. This little pistol comes out of the box weighing just under 20 oz. The APX Compact was a little chunky we wanted the APX Carry to be pocket size. ![]() Feedback on regular APX has been wonderful. You have more purchase with the hand on the frame. We changed the shape to bring the hand up significantly in the back of the grip. The Nano has been around since 2011 and was good in its time, but the APX is better, primarily with ergonomic issues. Stern says, “The APX Carry replaces the Nano. I asked Erik Stern, Beretta Product Manager for Tactical Products and Pro Shop, about how much of this pistol’s design DNA came from the Nano series, and how much from the service-size APX. The slide is pure APX in appearance with its distinctive wide-apart grasping ridges running the entire slide length except for flat spots by the ejection port, but the rest of the pistol harkens to an earlier Beretta pocket 9mm, the Nano of 2011. It uses what might be called a “semi-single stack” magazine, à la GLOCK’s recently introduced G48 and G43X. But the concealed carry/off duty gun market has an insatiable desire for smaller, slimmer 9mm pistols, and to satisfy this large niche now comes the Beretta APX Carry. ![]() Beretta included a chopped and channeled version - still with a double-stack magazine - they call the APX Compact. Beretta came relatively late to the polymer striker-fired “service pistol” market, but their Apex in this format has drawn raves from most reviewers. ![]()
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