Originally Posted by
YVK
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I still don't know if it is shooter-induced, or pistol's propensity;....
2 years ago or so - I picked up both a G17 and an MP 9 - wanting to compare them to the 1911s I'd shot for the past 40 or so years. I WANTED to switch to a 9mm weapon - but I had to shoot it well enough to make it worthwhile. I also knew up front that there would be teething problems. At any given distance - the Glock was 2x the grouping of the 1911s, and to the left. The M&P (which I eventually sold) was 2x the group size of the Glock - but at least IT was centered like the 1911s. Well - teething pains were more like oral surgery - because I REALLY wanted to switch to the Glock. I could deal with the fact that - for me - it isn't as accurate as the 1911s, as it was still fine in terms of "combat accuracy" (whatever that truly is:). OTOH - the "left" thing bothered me - to the point where I slid the rear sights to "correct" it.
Well - have since found a shooter-based solution (and have picked up yet another G17:). FOR ME - instead of pressing the trigger with the distal phalanx of the trigger finger like I did on the 1911s, I simply switched to using the intermediate phalanx! Problem solved!!!!!!! I seem to now "know" when I pick up a 1911 (more & more rare these days) to use the distal pad, and to use the intermediate pad of the finger when shooting tupperware. As usual - YMMV.
As I did not have this problem with the "other" plastic pistol, I'm leaning towards saying that there IS something (don't know exactly what) about the Glock design that "brings out" the shift to the Democratic side of things:)
john - trapped in Illinois:(
jmoore (aka - geezer john)
"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides
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