Most accurate autoloader?

ironworkerwill said:

I Know the nature of this topic is rather unprofessional, informal, and subjective. It was supposed to be all these things...and fun!

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For me it was the Smith and Wesson Model 41. It felt like I was thinking the bullets into the target.

The S&W 41 never saved my life, but the bond was hard for me to explain in purely material terms. It just fits, somehow.

Out of all my rimfires, I believe these to be the most accurate.

Beretta 102, Hammerli 212, Smith & Wesson 41, Bernardelli P010, Beretta 89, Hi-Standard Supermatic Trophy, and Browning Medalist

Coonan 357.Its not just accurate It makes bad shooters accurate .

My .22LR HS Victor of the early 1970s. Runner ups are either a mourned Gold Cup or my custom worked .45 1911.

When I bought my 3913 I wasn't blown away by the accuracy with the 124gr loads I was shooting. Being the pistol was made at the height of the 147gr craze I decided to reserve judgement until I fired it with the heavier bullets. This gun is magical with the heavier bullets. Its probably the most accurate pistol I have ever shot.

Browning Challenger, the Belgian made one, and then probably my Dan Wesson Heritage 1911.
9 fingers

I was in a newly opened gun store several years ago and noticed a Ruger semi-auto with the price tag upside down so I couldn't see the price. I didn't pay it much attention until I was just about ready to leave and asked the clerk what the price was. It was a tapered barrel MKII and had a price tag of $200.00. I bought it for $200.00 out the door and installed adjustable rear rights and an ejector as the factory ejector was terrible. It shoots better than any pistol that I've ever owned. My best 5 shot group measured just under an inch from a hand rest at 25 yards.

My best shooters are.
Ruger SS MKII bull barrel target .22 with a couple trigger mods and new springs.
My mostly stock S&W 645, it has been massaged internally a bit and shot a lot. Like a laser beam with hand loaded 230 grain ball. Almost as accurate as the .22 at 15 YDS. Often a four or five shot group that is about a cloverleaf. I have Star BM 9MM that is also surprisingly quite accurate once you learn the trigger.

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WOW internet triple play. Hope the whole year is not like this!!!

My friend is creepy accurate with my Glock 21 (converted to 460 Rowland). Myself it was a Sig 9mm I shot 15 some years ago.

Wilson CQB. It has a written guarantee of 1" at 25 yds. With my handloads, it sometimes grouped 5 shots into 1/2 inch.

Production gun, a Woodsman also, my uncles, it had to be from the 50's as this happend in the 70's and he had it a long time. He was a nationaly ranked shooter with several custom pistols and Hammereli Comp guns. But regular guns, it's hard to say unless you benched them and really did a test. Some days you just shoot beter than others otherwise. also Combat Masterpiece, or Target Materpiece. I no longer at 68 can shoot as well as I did as a young man, but can hang in there for a while when in the groove. I enjoy 1911's but rarely shoot much other than my 9's just for fun.

Unsupported, I shoot a plastic pistol with a mediocre trigger best. My (GFs) Gold Cup feels thin and top heavy and I have to hold my mouth just so and wait for the trigger to break to be in the same neighborhood in accuracy. If I wanna bust a coke can unsupported at 30-40 yards, I will take my G21SF any day and twice on Sunday. Double that if I want to hit a moving target and/or shoot quickly. Part of it is maybe the big grip, and part is the predictable trigger that "breaks" on the way to firing. But for w/e reason, the closer I get to the break and the tighter I grip the gun, the steadier my sights gets and opposite is true for the 1911 - With 1911, I feel like I need to relax more and more and wait an eternity as the trigger is about to break to keep the sights still. I have no problem following thru and holding on target with the spongy Glock trigger. There's no flinch in my game - with the Glock, anyhow; at least not until round 100-something... and the tight grip I'm sure helps. So with the Glock, I don't need surprise break. Bracing for the recoil and aiming and following thru and breaking the trigger are all one and the same.

If I was hunting from a rested blind, I'd give 1911 a notch up. This is where the trigger would be better for me, not to mention the sights.

*Edit: I had the same problem with my Stoeger Cougar, only much worse than with a 1911. Probably cuz the grip angle is even straighter and the trigger at least double the weight. What happens is I could hold the sights still. I could break the trigger without jerking it. But I found it quite a struggle to do both at the same time. I gave that gun to a good friend.

By leaps and bounds the most accurate pistol I've ever fired.....and smooth. Like Butta! This is the 5.25 XDM competition model. I love this pistol!

This is the first 3 rounds I ever fired from a Remington 1911R1S at 20 yards (60') The one low and left I call the fouling round. When I walked up the the target I said "thats good enough". I was using my front porch railing as a rest.

Heh. I remember first 6 shots I put thru my P64. I was only maybe 7 yards, but I was focused on accuracy to see what I had. Shooting unsupported I put rds 2-5 thru the same hole. The first hand-racked shot is sometimes slightly different, IME, so the fact that this very slightly ragged hole was half inch away from the first shot didn't lower the pressure. I felt it by the 6th shot. It was a good inch and a half off... 6 shots, 3 holes.

Goes without saying, this was SA. I am merely mortal.

Who said God created all men , Sam Colt, mad em equal, he Lied, didn't know bc1023.

1. SIG-P-210
2. H&K P7M8

I could make head shots at 50 yards with those two pistols.

I also had an older Sig Sauer P-220 ( West German with the folded and welded slide) that would keep all the shots in the chest area of a combat target at 100 yards with quality ammo. ( I had to aim at the high neck area.)