TargetTerror
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I had a revelation tonight. I shot at an informal action shoot at my club, and shot my Ruger P89 and S&W 686. We shot steel plate in a variety of configurations. I was shooting .38 special loads.
I did very fell with the P89, much better than I had expected, actually. But I was TERRIBLE with the 686. I can stack full house .357 mag loads on top of each other in SA mode, and I can see the sights moving around when I use DA. I'm pretty sure that my main problem was that the high force required in DA mode to pull the trigger messed up my sight picture enough to throw my shots completely off.
Distances were probably ~ 10-15 yards, so farther than a typical mugging distance but not necessarily out of the range of a gunfight. They were close enough that I would want to be able to accurately control my fire at the range in a reasonable amount of time.
Might it, in a way, actually be SAFER to have a lighter DA trigger pull on a CCW gun, as then when are in a sustained fire situation it would be easer to stay on target?
I did very fell with the P89, much better than I had expected, actually. But I was TERRIBLE with the 686. I can stack full house .357 mag loads on top of each other in SA mode, and I can see the sights moving around when I use DA. I'm pretty sure that my main problem was that the high force required in DA mode to pull the trigger messed up my sight picture enough to throw my shots completely off.
Distances were probably ~ 10-15 yards, so farther than a typical mugging distance but not necessarily out of the range of a gunfight. They were close enough that I would want to be able to accurately control my fire at the range in a reasonable amount of time.
Might it, in a way, actually be SAFER to have a lighter DA trigger pull on a CCW gun, as then when are in a sustained fire situation it would be easer to stay on target?