First try with a 1911 - me like.

As many of you know already I'm a new shooter on a bit of an acquisition spree to see what I like. Started with a revolver and a Glock and my performance with these is "godawful" and "fair to poor" respectively. Added this 1911 - SW1911PD in Commander size for those who haven't seen one before just this week and even though it's early days yet I see a significant improvement - heck may even be decent! The performance below may not be great to many of you - I have no illusions of being a competitive shooter or bullseye maven for quite some time - but to me after a total of 5 range sessions it is a whole new level and unless I suddenly got a lot better it's down to the weapon.

This thing is very repeatable. If I get the same sight picture it hits the same hole. I suspect the very crisp SA trigger is preventing me from screwing up the shot like I often do with my oither guns.

These are 4" targets at 25' or so. BTW ironically - and believe it or not - the much poorer performance on the target under the grip was when I tried to use the laser sights. They need a slight adjustment and I forgot to take the little Allen wrneches to the range with me. The good - again good as in good for me that is - groups on the other targets were just using the Novak sights.

Well Fran you beat me on photograpjhy as usual - and on aesthetics of the gun too - quite a handsome piece there. I deliberately took my pic from the other side so the "idiot scratch" from reassembling the slid stop wouldn't show - I see you managed to avoid that yourself.

Thanks guys - I'm still feeling my way as a shooter with everything but in my limited experience I'm best with this one (decent), then the Steyr S9 (not bad), then the Glock (fair to middling), then my lamentable accuracy or lack thereof with the 686 (godawful).

I really think the correlation is in the length of the trigger pull - I am clearly not maintaining good control as I squeeze the trigger and will continue to work on that. That's the good thing about the 1911 - short light trigger pull gives me less time to screw up!