This one sure was...
Anyone who thinks that conventional DA’s (as a group, and Berettas specifically) can’t be shot well under pressure, hasn’t seen them shine. Found this behind a file cabinet at the office the other day, from a ’99 department qualification shoot. The RO thought it was good enough that he peeled it off and gave it to me; it was shot with my old night-sighted, bone-stock 92G Centurion. The target is a reduced silhouette and the “X†ring was 3†in diameter; “K5“ zone was just under 6†across at its widest point. Course was 84 rounds total, and ranges were from 6-50 feet, 12 in the pitch black of an underground range, with a small dash-mount red light flashing from 20 feet behind us. The course was pretty fast with lotsa 2-3 taps from the holster, and an occasional “challenge†command (requiring you to hold fire & yell Police-Freeze, instead of shooting) just as you were ready to press a string off. Great fun, all told. I could have done better on the two head shots "on command".
This same little pistol would keep 5 rounds of 9BPLE inside 4.5†@ 50 yards when I’d do my part, and it never jammed the whole time I owned it- even with cheap hi-caps. As you might have guessed, it got shot a LOT.
Anyone who thinks that conventional DA’s (as a group, and Berettas specifically) can’t be shot well under pressure, hasn’t seen them shine. Found this behind a file cabinet at the office the other day, from a ’99 department qualification shoot. The RO thought it was good enough that he peeled it off and gave it to me; it was shot with my old night-sighted, bone-stock 92G Centurion. The target is a reduced silhouette and the “X†ring was 3†in diameter; “K5“ zone was just under 6†across at its widest point. Course was 84 rounds total, and ranges were from 6-50 feet, 12 in the pitch black of an underground range, with a small dash-mount red light flashing from 20 feet behind us. The course was pretty fast with lotsa 2-3 taps from the holster, and an occasional “challenge†command (requiring you to hold fire & yell Police-Freeze, instead of shooting) just as you were ready to press a string off. Great fun, all told. I could have done better on the two head shots "on command".
This same little pistol would keep 5 rounds of 9BPLE inside 4.5†@ 50 yards when I’d do my part, and it never jammed the whole time I owned it- even with cheap hi-caps. As you might have guessed, it got shot a LOT.
