For me it’s a Beretta 92SF.

Most recently: My Staccato R

Does mpx count as a pistol? I love that thing….

Umm but real pistol maybe fnx45 tactical. It’s a nice shooter

I don’t shoot it much but my P7M8.

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Originally posted by cslinger:
I don’t shoot it much but my P7M8.

That's because you have to let it cool down every so often

Lately, its my 9mm 320F.

PX4 full size. Burke did the trigger and it’s a laser beam. Hopefully this incoming 92F he did bests it.

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Originally posted by Dakor:

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Originally posted by cslinger:
I don’t shoot it much but my P7M8.

That's because you have to let it cool down every so often

Ha!

Honestly the heat on the “m” guns with the heat shield never really bothered me. I have heated up a J frame .357 pretty blazing hot though once or twice.

I rarely shoot more then 100 rounds through a single gun during a single session so the P7 isn’t all that bad with those parameters. Running a 500 round single day course could be “spicy” though.

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Honestly the heat on the “m” guns with the heat shield never really bothered me.

I had a P7M8 and the heat was definitely noticeable, if not uncomfortable during a range session where I only shot it and nothing else. I liked the pistol a lot, and had a custom leather holster made for it by a local holster maker, but after two firing pin bushings broke within a few thousand rounds, I got rid of it.

As far as this thread is concerned, I think I'd be as much interested in the why, as much as I'd be interested in the pistol. Personally, I've had fun with a whole lot from .22 to .50AE, including many in between. It is difficult for me to pinpoint the most fun pistol.

CZ Shadow 2, it has made me a better shooter and brought the joy back in shooting for me.

Suppressed Browning Buckmark and former-pistol-turned-SBR GSG-5PK.

It’s a toss-up between my Beretta 87 Target and my 9mm SIG P226 X5 Competition (with Robert Burke action job).

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CZ Shadow 2, it has made me a better shooter

Agreed!!!

Pistols I own, still my P320C. Feeding the 357Sig is less fun.

The Staccato P I got to have some trigger time with at a vendor event was pretty amazing, but it was a rental (and well out of my budget).
Same with the suppressed HK45 rental at a local range. Nice shooter & my first suppressor experience.

This is hard question to answer,because it really depends what I'm doing at the range.

Precision bullseye type stuff? It would be my Ruger MkII Target, hands down.

Static plate rack? Probably my SA Loaded 1911.

Shooting steel on the move or other dynamic drills? I'm really enjoying my new P320F Pro RX duty gun as the dot makes it way easier to acquire a sight picture under those conditions.

Drawing and firing from deep concealment? J-Frame.

Tigger press or timed draw drills? My P245 although I've been enjoying working with the new 92x Compact lately too. It's fun and challenging to try and master that initial DA pull and then the transition to SA, while trying to keep the accuracy standard the same for both on the clock. I've also been working on reset under recoil a good bit lately...I'm still slow, but getting faster, and it's improved my consistency.

Long range steel, 50 yards or more? My Ruger GP100 4".

Need to feel some recoil? Smith model 69 2 3/4"...and it'll produce remarkably small groups at the same time.

Been watching too many westerns lately? Ruger Blackhawk Convertible in .45 ACP...I actually enjoy the ACP cylinder more than the .45 Colt as it drops the empties easier and actually tends to be a hair more accurate.

Staccato P

Cimarron Frontier single action (made by Pietta) in .38 Special.

My Sig P229 in .40. I honestly don't shoot it very well, but there's something intangible about shooting it that makes me prefer shooting it to anything else I own.

And broadening the discussion a little, my Winchester model 63 is probably my favorite firearm to shoot. It's tube fed, so not the most convenient and I don't think I've ever made it through a range day without a malfunction of some kind. That said, it's still my favorite. Absolutely no recoil at all. It's built so solidly it might as well be suppressed, fire it and you get a little pop and hear the action cycle more than anything. It's deadly accurate for squirrels. I haven't hunted in 30 years, but I don't think I ever missed one with it. Part of my love for it might be nostalgia. My brother and I both had "our" .22s growing up and the Winchester was mine. We had one uncle in particular that had a lot of land we could shoot on. He had a concrete wall on one part of his property, and my brother and I would line up rows of spent shotgun shells and .22 cases on the wall. We'd go back about 50 yards, and take turns picking them off. The shotgun shells were easy, the .22 casings were quite a bit harder. Once we cleared the wall, we'd walk back out there and set them up again. We'd do it for hours and hours on end. I only wish I could afford to shoot like that these days.

Mostly draw/fire at speed from a holster. Wilson Pro (Cmdr size) .45ACP . Always go home with a rat hole on the target and a smile on my face.

Fun to see BIG holes sitting above the front sight.

My 10.5" 5.56 AR pistol by far.
The fudds who need 30 seconds of silence to squeeze off a shot with their Winchester .243's hate me but everyone else gets a kick out of it.

40 year old Model 41 Smith&Wesson.