StrikeFire83
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But, why did you stick with it for that long?
Did you just not know that you shoot something else better?
This, pretty much. My first pistol was a Ruger P345, and I shot it terribly. So I bought the Glock 17, and I could get all of the shots inside the 6" circle at 7 yards, and I said "oh, maybe I'm not an AWFUL pistol shot" and I shot just the Glock for YEARS. And I bought a Glock 26 to carry. I shoot them adequately. I know the Glock groups aren't stellar, but they were better than what I started with. So I shot and shot and shot and they basically stayed the same. Then, last year, I picked up an XDm and shot it SO...MUCH...BETTER. And now I'm trying other guns, like my dad's Browning HiPower and my buddy's M&P 9, and I ALSO shoot them better than the Glock.
It's a tool. You don't owe an inanimate object anything. Since 2006 is just not that long. If it were granddad's Winchester model 12 that's been pulling HD duty for the last 70 years, then sure it has sentimental value as a family heirloom. But 7 years?
If you've put THAT MUCH ammo downrange, and still can't shoot it better than the other guns, that really tells you something, ragardless of which sights are on it. If the XD shoots better after 600 rounds, than the Glock at 15,000, and you still want to keep the Glock over the XD, you're letting sentimentality get in the way of the practical defense of yourself and your family.
I can't imagine using anything other than my best shooting gun for a situation where consequences really do matter. I would not want to be the guy who has to say "sorry I couldn't stop the threat, but hey, at least I got to use my most favoritest gun in the whole wide world!"
I'll add that your groups with the Glock aren't bad, but if the chips are down, accuracy is going to be degraded no matter which gun you use. May as well use one that shoot the most accurately to begin with so that even with degraded accuracy, you're still on target.
Yeah, I'm feeling this. I will keep the Glock 26 because nothing has 10+1 and pocket carries quite like it. I'm thinking of selling the 17 and picking up either a M&P or an XDm for my full-size 9mm.
Also, thank you to everyone for your responses. And for the few of you who said my shooting sucks, I find that everybody on the internet shoots 2 inch groups at 25 yards, but almost nobody posts pictures of their targets. Although I'm never going to win a competition, I'm usually one of the better shots of the people I encounter on the public ranges I visit: shotgun patterns at 3 yards with lasers, etc.