2. Restrain the slide, turn the safety down to off-safe position, and ease the slide forward until it is even with the frame at the rear. Depress the grip safety and pull the trigger to drop the striker to fired position. The cocked indicator will disappear from its aperture at the rear.
3. Move the slide assembly off the frame forward, and remove the recoil spring and its guide.
4. Remove the striker assembly from the slide. The striker spring is easily detached. Late versions will also have a small hollow sleeve/guide at the rear tip of the spring.
Beretta Model 418 field-stripped
Detail Strip:
5. Drifting out this cross-pin in the slide will allow the extractor and its coil spring to be taken out upward.
6. The safety lever can be lifted out of the frame.
7. Remove the grip screws, and take off the grips. Drift out the magazine catch limit pin.
8. Drift out the magazine catch pivot pin.
9. Remove the magazine catch downward, and take out the catch and grip safety spring, and its plungers.
10. Note that the spring plungers are not identical. The larger flat one at the top powers the grip safety, and the smaller rounded one powers the catch. Also note that in earlier pistols with the “hump” grip safety, each part has its own separate spring.
11. Drift out the grip safety cross-pin.
12. Remove the grip safety toward the rear. In pistols with the “Hump” type, the part is moved forward, into the magazine well, for removal.
13. Drift out the sear cross-pin. The other cross-pin, below, is the sear limit pin. It does not have to be removed in normal takedown.
14. Tip the sear forward into the magazine well, and move it slightly to the right to clear its side-lug for removal. Note that the coil sear spring may or may not come out with the sear. It will be released, so take care that it isn’t lost.
15. Remove the sear spring.
16. Drift out the trigger cross-pin.
17. Move the trigger assembly toward the rear, lifting the rear tip of the trigger bar very slightly, just enough to clear the side of the frame. Take out the trigger assembly.
18. The trigger bar and its spring and plunger can be removed from the trigger by drifting out the cross pin. CAUTION:Control the plunger and spring.
Reassembly Tips:
1. Re-installing the sear will be easier if the lower end of the sear spring has a coil expanded, to seat and hold it in its recess in the frame.
2. Be sure the sear cross-pin is well-centered, so that either end will not protrude into the slide track.
Beretta Model 950BS
Similar/Identical Pattern Guns
The same basic assembly/disassembly steps for the Beretta Model 950BS also apply to the following guns:
Beretta Model 950
Beretta Model 950B
| Data: | Beretta Model 950BS |
| Origin: | Italy |
| Manufacturer: | Armi Beretta S.p.A., |
| Gardone (Brescia) | |
| Cartridge: | 22 Short and 25 ACP |
| Magazine capacity: | 22-6 rounds; 25-8 rounds |
| Overall length: |
4 |
| Height: |
3 |
| Barrel length: |
2 |
| Weight: |
10 ounces
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