THE Centurion is Beretta’s version of a compact pistol (similar in size to the Glock 19) with a 15-round magazine capacity. Apart from the Centurion and a full-size pistol, Beretta also has an APX Compact which has the same slide as the Centurion but a shorter grip with a 13-round mag capacity.
In the March 2019 edition of Magnum, Paul Scarlata introduced us to the then new Beretta APX pistols – Beretta’s attempt to win the US Army’s Modular Handgun System competition. The APX is a chassis-based design with a focus on modular features such as interchangeable grips and ambidextrous controls. Another article on the full-size pistol and the Compact appeared in the May 2020 edition.
I’m not going to recap any of the technical information available in the previous articles except to make mention of the APX interchangeable frames which are similar to the system used in some of SIG’s
