Trying to make a charging handle for the Beretta CX4 Storm

TennJeep1618 · Jun 23, 2014

Here is the short installation/testing/review video.

http://youtu.be/vexy0wKwSo0

Marquezj16 · Jun 25, 2014

Makes me want to keep the one I have up for sale. Nice video!

DMCharginghandles · Jun 30, 2014

I have made a couple more out of the 4130 material. I think I have 6 or 7 already spoken for. I think everyone who has asked on this thread should have a pm from me. If this goes alright I will make a batch to see if they will sell.

Thanks

David

DMCharginghandles · Jun 30, 2014

It looks like Beretta has a large tolerance on the hole in the receiver where the charging handle fits into. I met up with bobinbusan this afternoon and his stock charging handle was a snug fit in his receiver. Needless to say these few I made were too big to fit. I asked to take his receiver home, took out my dremel and it took me about ten minutes to get my charging handle to fit into his receiver. No wonder why every one was saying the older ones were loose.

Ian has one of the new ones and I am putting two in the mail tomorrow to see how folks like them.

I want to thank everyone for helping with this project and IF(it's big) I can get this to work I will offer everyone here a deal on one.

Thanks

David

Gonedown · Jul 3, 2014

I met David earlier this week and was fortunate enough to get one of the prototypes. The fit was perfect on my rifle. And it feels very nice to reach up and grab a solid charging handle finaly. Thanks David for the opportunity to test this for you.

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bobinbusan · Jul 3, 2014

pass30 said:
It looks like Beretta has a large tolerance on the hole in the receiver where the charging handle fits into. I met up with bobinbusan this afternoon and his stock charging handle was a snug fit in his receiver. Needless to say these few I made were too big to fit. I asked to take his receiver home, took out my dremel and it took me about ten minutes to get my charging handle to fit into his receiver. No wonder why every one was saying the older ones were loose.

Ian has one of the new ones and I am putting two in the mail tomorrow to see how folks like them.

I want to thank everyone for helping with this project and IF(it's big) I can get this to work I will offer everyone here a deal on one.

Thanks

David

David & I met up and he saw we had some fitting issues and he took my weapon to make the corrections to the charging handle and brought it back to me, now I just need to get out to field test it and provide some feed back on how it worked out, will keep everyone in the loop on this project.
bobinbusan

Shipwreck · Jul 8, 2014

I have one of his handles now. He does a great job, and is very nice about it!

DMCharginghandles · Jul 8, 2014

I think I have heard back from everyone but HonkyTonk and Ian. Everything I hear has been good news about the fit and function of the handles.
Shipwrek asked for a handle to get around his honking optics.

That is my TRS-25 there. It is small for this setup. I will try to knurl the handle and see if I can do a better bend on the next one.

David

Shipwreck · Jul 8, 2014

U da man!

ilintner · Jul 9, 2014

I'm sorry to be late to the party... I will test fit mine tonight and let you know what I come up with. Work has been hell lately!

ilintner · Jul 10, 2014

I installed mine last night, it was extremely tight going in, but when it went in I was able to rotate it around a bit and now it seems to fit perfect, no wobble, but still loose enough to rotate. A drop of oil during installation was probably all that I needed to get it in there with less effort.

I racked the bolt hard a dozen times and it held together without an issue... love the feel!

DMCharginghandles · Jul 10, 2014

That sounds great Ian. I plan to make a batch of 50 or so in the next couple of weeks and will let everyone know when I have them in hand.

David

DMCharginghandles · Jul 25, 2014

Finally got these back today. If you want one PM me and I will give you a deal.

David

HonkyTonkHale · Jul 27, 2014

I apologize for not posting this sooner. I received my charging handle and it fit perfectly! When I say perfectly, I really mean it. I did not even have to sand it and it slid right in without any play. I could not have asked for a better fit or design. It is worlds better than the original, and I think it is the first upgrade anyone should consider if they own a CX4.

DMCharginghandles · Jul 27, 2014

Thanks HonkyTonk, Just have not heard from you since you said you received it and was wondering what you thought.

David

DMCharginghandles · Jul 30, 2014

Got them back

I bought some parkerizing solution off ebay, and all I can say is wow. Very easy to do and it looks outstanding.

Now I need to get a small bead blaster and this should look outstanding.

Have been playing around with a bent charging handle for the Beretta(Shipwreck is who turned me on to this). Seems some of you are running some pretty big optic packages on these things.

I saw what was being made for the Scar and sort of went that direction for the Beretta. The only problem I am having is the bend. Hopefully I can figure it out.

What do you'll thank??

David

Stuntmanmike · Jul 30, 2014

What you have now works great with my mid size optics.

DMCharginghandles · Aug 29, 2014

Got some of the bent ones together. I think they look awesome.

At the bottom is the factory charging handle along with my delrin composit and the new bent charging handle.

Shipwreck · Aug 29, 2014

That looks very good!

fleetc · Aug 29, 2014

That looks awesome. Are you selling them yet?

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