Wow, I am such a bad shot with my new pistol it is obscene. I could do better throwing the bullets at the target. I am a great shot with a rifle or a bow, but I just cannot get the hang of shooting with a pistol.
I just bought the gun yesterday..
I brought 2 guns with me, a scoped .357 magnum revolver and the new 9mm stoeger cougar.
Observations.
Wow, the 9mm round is tiny! The case length looks like less than half of a .357 magnums.
Loading the 15 round magazine took me about half an hour. My thumbs are incredibly sore still. I never managed to fully load one. At the end of the shooting session I was resorting to loading a single round, shooting it, dropping the magazine, inserting another single, repeat . When I got home, the only way for me to load the magazine was to push the rounds down with a pencil, then push in the cartridge. Otherwise, the bullets slide off each other, or I just can't get enough leverage to push them down.
The recoil of the little Cougar is actually much stronger than the revolvers. Probably because the scope/rings/scope mount/revolver together amounts to something like 6 lbs. Shooting 158 grain soft noses at 1400 fps was significantly easier than shooting the 115 grain UMCs.
I am also a much better shot with the scoped revolver. I can put 8 shots within 3" of each other at 25 yards standing. I can also do this with an iron sights pellet pistol.
With the cougar, I can barely get the shots on paper at 25 feet. I am aware that the problem is a bad flinch. I just can't get rid of it. Most shots grouped about a foot low and 7" to the left. I am certain that it's a flinch causing this because the same thing occurred with the revolver before I scoped it.
The guns shot very reliably and I am pleased with that.
I just bought the gun yesterday..
I brought 2 guns with me, a scoped .357 magnum revolver and the new 9mm stoeger cougar.
Observations.
Wow, the 9mm round is tiny! The case length looks like less than half of a .357 magnums.
Loading the 15 round magazine took me about half an hour. My thumbs are incredibly sore still. I never managed to fully load one. At the end of the shooting session I was resorting to loading a single round, shooting it, dropping the magazine, inserting another single, repeat . When I got home, the only way for me to load the magazine was to push the rounds down with a pencil, then push in the cartridge. Otherwise, the bullets slide off each other, or I just can't get enough leverage to push them down.
The recoil of the little Cougar is actually much stronger than the revolvers. Probably because the scope/rings/scope mount/revolver together amounts to something like 6 lbs. Shooting 158 grain soft noses at 1400 fps was significantly easier than shooting the 115 grain UMCs.
I am also a much better shot with the scoped revolver. I can put 8 shots within 3" of each other at 25 yards standing. I can also do this with an iron sights pellet pistol.
With the cougar, I can barely get the shots on paper at 25 feet. I am aware that the problem is a bad flinch. I just can't get rid of it. Most shots grouped about a foot low and 7" to the left. I am certain that it's a flinch causing this because the same thing occurred with the revolver before I scoped it.
The guns shot very reliably and I am pleased with that.