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A few days ago I told you that I had a hard time shooting my beretta and Sig P220. On the beretta I seemed to always be hitting low and to the left, while with the sig I seemed to spray all over the target, especially compared to my 1911. After my last range session with those two problem guns, I was all set to sell them to a friend. No sense in keeping a gun which I couldn't shoot well with when I had others which I would much rather run expensive ammo through.
I gave my guns a glare that was the equivalent of me going "Bad dog! Bad! Bad!"
well, apparently they're trying to appease me because last night
, I took them to the range to give them another chance, and lo and behold, I'm hitting where I aim! I'm now so pleased with my guns that Im going to disappoint my friend who I had promised to sell to when he scraped together the money.
"Good dog!"
seriously, though, I think my main problem with the beretta was the much shorter trigger reach than the one I'm used to with my cz75, which has a long, somewhat spongy trigger almost like a revolver. With that muscle memory in place, I'm pretty sure I was pulling the gun downward and to the left before the hammer fell. In he case of the sig, I think it's simply because, as a lighter gun with a shorter sight radius and a higher bore axis, it has a snappier recoil than a 1911 and I was flinching. Controlling that flinch is still hard, but focusing, almost trance-like, on the front sight, helped me do a lot better.
I gave my guns a glare that was the equivalent of me going "Bad dog! Bad! Bad!"
well, apparently they're trying to appease me because last night
, I took them to the range to give them another chance, and lo and behold, I'm hitting where I aim! I'm now so pleased with my guns that Im going to disappoint my friend who I had promised to sell to when he scraped together the money.
"Good dog!"
seriously, though, I think my main problem with the beretta was the much shorter trigger reach than the one I'm used to with my cz75, which has a long, somewhat spongy trigger almost like a revolver. With that muscle memory in place, I'm pretty sure I was pulling the gun downward and to the left before the hammer fell. In he case of the sig, I think it's simply because, as a lighter gun with a shorter sight radius and a higher bore axis, it has a snappier recoil than a 1911 and I was flinching. Controlling that flinch is still hard, but focusing, almost trance-like, on the front sight, helped me do a lot better.
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