50,000 shot Beretta 9mm: One tough PX4 (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

How much is 50,000 rounds? “It’s multiple lifetimes of ammo,” says Langdon, shown here with his pistol. “A hundred years’ worth.” (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Marine, champion shooter and firearms instructor Ernest Langdon spent a year of his life running up the rounds on a Beretta 9mm that just wouldn’t die.
Showcased behind glass at the Beretta booth at the 40th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade show in Las Vegas this week is one gently used PX4, still in working condition after cycling through a literal pallet of ammo. Some 50,000 rounds of it to be exact.
“That’s a lot more ammo than most people realize,” Langdon, who was on hand at the company’s booth, told Guns.com on Tuesday, recounting how from last January to this one he dutifully put box after box through the handgun under all conditions — often a case or more a week — to make it to the 50K goal.

One of the team who helped guide the development of the PX4 Compact — one of which Langdon put 52,000 rounds through — the only modifications made to the specimen on display was the addition of a Wilson Combat silicon hammer spring, some stippling, and a set of AmeriGlo sights

Source: Guns.com