Pretty much any revolvers in general. I'm apparently not a wheel gun guy, be it da or sa. Have several, but I've just accepted that I don't shoot them well at all. Push comes to shove, I'm probably reaching for a Glock, a 1911 or a third gen Smith. Likely in that order.
For me.. M9 great gun, doesn’t work for me S&W Sigma’s. Quick story Local Cop shop had a field day when they came out to promote them. Yes it was a while back.. Had a board with balloons all over it, think fairgrounds and darts. Come try it!! I know the guy running it fairy well, we have competed against each other, both decent. I try S&W Sigma, five rounds aimed, NADA! Ball busting occurs. I draw my HK M13 that I was carrying as a duty sidearm at the time. Five balloons disappeared very quickly
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Posts: 698 | Location: New England | Registered: October 01, 2000
Glocks I have tried several different models and just don't care for how they felt in my hand. I will admit I have only shot a few rounds out of borrowed guns, never owned one.
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Posts: 4136 | Location: Metamora MI | Registered: October 31, 2003
I have a Thompson Center Contender with many barrels. I have a .35 Rem barrel and that is the most awkward caliber to shoot. After 3-4 rounds, I start cringing like a newbie. That and the 7mm-08 are the toughest rounds to shoot!!
Glocks / revolvers. Even after owning a couple of each, I just cant get used to the grip angle when drawing and firing. Not to say that there is anything wrong with them, they were definitely reliable and very accurate. I'm just used to, and more comfortable with taller grip angles (1911's) for drawing and quick firing.
Posts: 2039 | Location: Atlanta, GA | Registered: February 24, 2010
A thread earlier this morning got me thinking about why I started this thread in the first place. I have taken shooting lessons/classes with about a half dozen or so instructors over the last 30 years. Sometimes, you get the “ah ha moment” and what the instructor tells you makes complete sense and everything clicks into place. For me that happened while taking a OpSpec class with Jerry. The concept of prepping a trigger and running a gun made sense. 20 years of inconsistently slapping my trigger around a course or range session made sense. So I believed him when he said “I could teach you how to shoot a Glock” and when he said “I can teach you how to shoot a red dot”.
With all that said, I have more productive rounds down range in the last 5 years than the 15 previous. I feel like I can pick up just about any handgun and shoot it faster and more proficiently than ever before. I successfully set out to master Glocks, red dots, and DA/SA guns. Along the way I gained an appreciation for what Grayguns, Cajun Gun Works, Langdon Tactical, and Apex Tactical can do to a trigger system in many cases with drop in parts. My goal is tightly clustered A zone hits at combat distances.
So while I believe a good trigger and good practice can make someone shoot any gun proficiently well, the Beretta M9/92FS and the HK USP9SD Tactical continue to humble me and attempt to disprove the above theory. These two guns drive me nuts!
There were a lot of expected answers, but also as many surprises seemingly as baffling as my own.This message has been edited. Last edited by: dking271,
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Posts: 2961 | Location: Middle-TN | Registered: November 05, 2003
My first concealed carry gun was a P250 Subcompact and while I could hit the target, I was not what I would consider accurate. I could shoot it's bigger brother the FS satisfactorily, but the smaller size & DAO trigger combined to make my targets appear more like a shotgun outing. Once I got the P365 it went back in the safe. My son purchased a Wilson Combat grip for his P365 and convinced me to get one for the P250 Subcompact. Whoa - it was like a different gun - all of a sudden I was putting ragged holes where I wanted. It still gets too much safe-time, but responding to this post reminded me to take it out the next range trip.
Posts: 247 | Location: Central Florida | Registered: December 09, 2011
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
Almost anything smaller than a Glock 19 sized pistol. I have a tendency to pull left on small (read 365’s Hellcats, etc) guns, and yes, this can be trained out by practice, but in a (god forbid) stress situation, I want something that I don’t have to think about. Just my 2 cents.
My main carry is a Wilson EDC9 or a Bul Sas ul2
Posts: 8 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: April 16, 2015
9×18mm Makarov followed closely by the Beretta Cheetah. The best place for a bad guy to hide if I'm presenting one of these guns is right in front of me.
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
-D.H. Lawrence
Posts: 11524 | Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: February 07, 2007
Classic Sig P-almost-anything. Beretta 92/M9. Basically any full size DA/SA pistol, and most compacts. My hands are just too small to maintain a good SA grip and still manage the DA trigger pull. I have to shift the gun around in my hand to get the first shot off, then back again for the rest. I owned, at various times, an M9, a P-220, P-245, P-228, P-232. The 232 was the only one I could shoot worth a damn. I absolutely loved that P-228, I just couldn't shoot it. I finally gave up and sold them all. Add the G-21 to that list too - not DA/SA, just toooooooo damn big.
I'm a 1911 guy. I'm not a Glock hater, I owned a G-21 for a while. My regular shooting buddy is a Glock guy and kept trying to convert me, but the way they fit in my hand forced me to adjust my wrist angle to get the sights to align. Now if I was shooting Glocks exclusively, or even mostly, that's something that would have resolved itself fairly quickly. I didn't do it because I was already invested in 1911s. I do have one Polymer-80 G-19 equivalent that shoots reasonably well for me. I'm occasionally tempted to pick up a Gen 5 G-19 or -17, but as much as I shoot handguns anymore I just can't justify it. I'm also a .45 guy more than a 9mm guy, but that's a discussion for a different thread.
[ETA] I did at one point own a P-220 SAO, and it shot reasonably well for me. But the trigger was heavier than those on any of my 1911s, so it went away to fund something else. That said, if I came across a good deal on one (or a 229 or 226 SAO), I wouldn't be adverse to jumping on it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Expert308,
Posts: 7269 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007
