Well I'm a John Woo fan, so I'd love to get at least 2 M92F for the sake of it...if I had the money

Even though it is useless and you won't hit anything, dual wielding guns and firing them is a lot of fun, I've done it with .22 handguns, .38 revolvers (two M&P Model 10s) and two 1911s.

The only time I can see wielding two guns as being effective is if you were in a tight space with multiple people on each side of you. Like people such as Wild Bill Hickock, who were ambidextrous and very professional with firearms. He had a gunfight in a bar where he used his Navy Colts to gun down four men, simply aiming deliberately and shooting. Of course reloading would be a bitch so bring holsters so you can focus on one at a time. Or buy those wicked awesome magazine loading things from Tomb Raider that allow for one handed reloads.

Police trade-in 92Fs are really cheap if you want to buy one.

On the other hand, the 92F is kind of an aging design nowadays. All-metal handguns without Picatinny rails just aren't in style anymore. Which is too bad, because I liked them way better than all the crappy polymer-framed pistols with multi-colored frames that dominate the handgun market today.

Personally, I miss the days when the 92F was the coolest, sexiest handgun in existence. :(

I never understood what made the beretta so special.....it seems fairly generic to me.

I dunno if it's special, but it's a very good design. The fact that it passed the Army's XM9 trials is certainly quite important, since many of the other "Wonder Nines" of the day didn't. The open-top slide was already proven on Beretta's older pistols - the 92 series were just the first high-capacity versions.

The only thing I've never liked about the 92 series is that they're a little too big.

Forgot to add.....Smith & Wesson 617 6" for target shooting/plinking. These are real accurate and well made. Will keep costs down with the rimfire ammo. Not to mention that there not as picky as semis as to what they want to eat.

I'm going to try and find a Browning BDM when I turn 21.
I hear it has some kind of Revolver style double action.

Id suggest against DA autos, the SIG DAK is smooth but long, i much prefer the ability to fire in SA. And the Beretta and SIG passed, just the p228 doesn't see as much use. I much prefer 1911s though, but not the old colts, the tolerances on those were too loose and they didnt shoot very accurately. A newer gun with just the right fit would be nice.

The Browning BDM has a revolver double action system which means if you just keep on pulling the trigger it will be like DAO but if you pull down the hammer that shot will be single action.

Do you mean the P226? The P228 wasn't in the XM9 trials (didn't exist back then).

I prefer SIGs over Berettas myself, but I do think that at the time of the XM9 trials, the 92F was actually the better choice. The P226 had issues of its own (breaking trigger bar springs, bending barrels, etc.), many of which weren't worked out until about the early-90s. Whereas the 92 series had been in existence for longer and was a more developed design by the mid-80s.