Madcap_Magician
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... brought my fiancee to the range. She has shot with her father several times and with me a dozen or so times over the years, and once or twice with a female friend of ours.
She is learning the fundamentals, but yesterday she really surprised me. I took a Beretta 92 with us this time, and as it turns out, some shooters just take to DA/SA guns like ducks to water.
All the common wisdom I've ever heard suggested that DA/SA guns were harder to master because of the trigger transition, and they're outdated in a world where the gun trends are diverging toward striker or single-action guns, and that DA/SA is the evolutionary dead end. And of course everyone knows Beretta 92s are fat.
But, as it turns out, she really loved it. The DA trigger gives her time to focus on the trigger pull and helps her avoid that errant first shot, but the SA follow-up is short and crisper once she's settled into her shot string. Granted, this is a Langdon Beretta with all the options, so it's as nice a DA/SA trigger as you can get and has the great Ameriglo Spartan sights, both of which help tremendously.
She's still got a ways to go, but she's an apt student, and was shredding 4" bullseyes at 7-10 yards. Quite proud of her! She impressed the OFWG RSOs quite a bit. Moral of the story - don't assume you know what the new shooter in your life is going to like, they just might end up picking a gun you never thought they would.
She is learning the fundamentals, but yesterday she really surprised me. I took a Beretta 92 with us this time, and as it turns out, some shooters just take to DA/SA guns like ducks to water.
All the common wisdom I've ever heard suggested that DA/SA guns were harder to master because of the trigger transition, and they're outdated in a world where the gun trends are diverging toward striker or single-action guns, and that DA/SA is the evolutionary dead end. And of course everyone knows Beretta 92s are fat.
But, as it turns out, she really loved it. The DA trigger gives her time to focus on the trigger pull and helps her avoid that errant first shot, but the SA follow-up is short and crisper once she's settled into her shot string. Granted, this is a Langdon Beretta with all the options, so it's as nice a DA/SA trigger as you can get and has the great Ameriglo Spartan sights, both of which help tremendously.
She's still got a ways to go, but she's an apt student, and was shredding 4" bullseyes at 7-10 yards. Quite proud of her! She impressed the OFWG RSOs quite a bit. Moral of the story - don't assume you know what the new shooter in your life is going to like, they just might end up picking a gun you never thought they would.
