It’s not a sad story, in fact it has a happy ending.
So yesterday I had to leave work early to pick up my Suby from the body shop, where it was undergoing repairs after being rear-ended a couple of months ago. Well, that took less time than expected, so I ended up with about an hour to kill before I needed to meet Mrs. Ahab.
Being an industrious chap, I figured that I’d head over to the local Gander Mountain and peruse the goodies. BIG MISTAKE. I walk in the door and see that they’re having huge firearms blowout sale; which for the sake of my wallet should have been SIGN NUMBER ONE to turn around and go kill time in a Barnes & Noble or something. But, I didn’t, because I thought to myself “Self, you could just maybe see what they have”.
That would have been mistake number 2. Mistake number three came when I saw the Beretta 92D Centurion and didn’t walk away; instead I had to notice that it was marked down to $380 for a brand spanking new Beretta with 2 15 round magazines.
Somehow (and I’m not sure how) there is now a Beretta 92D Centurion sitting in my Gun Closet, just waiting to be taken to the range this weekend. Like I said, I’m not entirely sure how it happened.
As a side effect, I now have just as many Berettas as I have Taurus guns. I sense jealousy in the Gun Closet.
Don’t sweat it, sounds like a great deal if it’s in good condition (you’d expect nothing less)
Besides, they’ve got great resale value.
Yeah, it’s in NIB condition, brand spanking new. Still has oil all over it from the factory.
There isn’t a whole lot of demand these days for DAO wonder-nines, which makes sense to me; but this is essentially the perfect carry Beretta. All the simplicity of a wheelgun with 10 more rounds.
Those are supposed to be LE-only guns, but sometimes Beretta distributors wind up with too many on their hands and blow them out at fantastic prices.
Plus, Beretta makes a Cx4 Storm version that accepts 92 series magazines; or I could get a Kel-Tec Sub-2000 for about half the price of that.