PX4 Carry - Full Size 9mm

Received my Full Size Carry last week and after about 500 rounds, it's everything I expected, save for one minor problem which will be covered towards the end of the review.

This is an Italian made (as expected) pistol. I opted for the gray Cerakote slide which was applied professionally and flawlessly, and an LTT trigger job. The pistol comes with 2x 17 round and 1x 20 round extended magazines. Like the Compact Carry, it comes with Ameriglo sights (blacked out rear, tritium front) which are pretty good sights for quick sight picture acquisition, although I personally feel the front sight could be a little narrower.. Like its little brother, the FS Carry comes with rubber Talon grips sized for the medium/large backstraps. I left the medium backstrap (as it ships from the factory) on. I've found that I prefer to only have the Talon grips on the sides of the grips, where there is no stippling present. I cut the wrap around grip into 2 pieces to facilitate this. Overall fit and finish is very good. Slide to frame fit has a little play, but this doesn't detract from the accuracy of the pistol at all. The trigger job is very slightly better than the Trigger Job in a Bag I installed in my Compact Carry, but not by a lot. You could get very, very close to the a full LTT trigger job by installing the TJIAB on a stock PX4.

Shooting the FS Carry I found it to be plenty accurate. Shooting standing off hand, I was able to keep 20-30 shot strings all within the 0 zone on a standard IDPA target at 25 yards with Speer Gold Dot 124gr +P. The sights came zeroed appropriately from Beretta/LTT. One of the aspects I appreciate about the PX4 line compared to Browning action type pistols is the difference in recoil impulse. Subjectively, the recoil on the rotating barrel seems to be milder and less snappy than other pistols I shoot regularly with a tilting barrel design. Coupled with the excellent single action trigger thanks to LTT, it makes shooting accurately and rapidly a breeze. That being said, having had the opportunity to compare shooting my Compact Carry with the FS Carry, I definitely think the Compact is ever so slightly the better shooter In my hands.

Now to the minor issue - After a few hundred rounds through the FS Carry, I began to notice that the front sight began to work itself to the left under recoil. Supposedly Beretta stakes the front sight from the underside (there is a relief cut on the floor of the dovetail through the slide, so you can basically see the bottom the front sight if you turn the slide over), but I did not see any staking on my particular pistol. I ended up re-centering the sight and applied some loctite. I have not yet been able to take the pistol out since to re-zero it and ensure the adhesive holds, but I have had success with securing sights on other pistols in the past with this method, but this is the first NIB pistol I've owned that had such an issue. I suppose it is a better problem to have than sights that are so tight they are impossible to adjust with standard sight adjustment tools. If it were not for this minor problem, I would have given the pistol 5 stars.

Overall a great pistol, and LTT has always been great to work with. The Full Size Carry would make an excellent duty or competition pistol, while its little brother the Compact Carry has been a reliable carry pistol for me.

love the gun - its soft shooting, feels great in the hand and has well regulated sights.

I can't give it a max rating because of two things:

1- grips are to slippery to use without the talons installed.
2- the gun wouldn't feed from the magazine when hand racking the slide. I had to de-burr and break the corners on the extractor and the face of the slide to make it feed reliably.

Oh wow....just shot this. Incredible. Nicely done Mr. Langston!!

I am a fan of the PX series and carried one for years as my chosen duty gun. I'm not sure why it did not get more love, I thought it was a great platform and an improvement on the already great 92 series. Mine never had so much as a single hiccup when other guns on the line were having double feeds and FTF/FTE, my PX4 just ate everything I gave it and came back for seconds.But when I treated myself to a LTT PX4 with the NP3 and LTT trigger job, I realize just how great this pistol can be! Groups shot right out of the box were phenomenal and the trigger press was a great improvement - even over my duty gun with over 5000 rds down the pipe, the smoothness and reset were just amazing. I had the folks at Langdon install the 92 style decocker levers and that was a great choice, perfect for the gun and my thumb finds them exactly where they should be.
I can't say enough about this pistol - thank you to everyone at LTT and Aimee, who got the levers installed prior to shipping. If I had to design my perfect gun, this is it! It's already found a spot on my hip and the rest of my collection just pales in comparison (this from a guy who has 2 Wilson Combat 92's!). You hit this one out of the park, Langdon Tactical - you have a customer for life here.

Excellent!, Beautiful! More than I expected. Anxious to go to the range to use it!

Just received the PX4 full size in gray today and headed to the range to test fire. This gun is amazing, the trigger work is phenomenal and the gray ceracote is sexy as a Ferrari or Lamborghini. The fit and finish is incredible and the single action trigger rivals some of the best high end 1911s I've shot. I venture to say I like this gun even better than any of my model 92s. Do yourself a favor and buy this gun. If you're worried about the wife being angry then buy one for her too. The folks at Langdon Tactical ate awesome! Thanks so much!

Has rapidly become my favorite carry gun. Double action pull 6 and 3/4, single action pull 2 and 3/4. Both smooth and reset is fantastic. Langdon Tactical was a joy to work with. Thank you Aimee!!