Got to get a little range time yesterday, for the first time in a long time. My spine is wrecked and I'll pay for it for another few days but it was fun and worth it. Shot my Beretta 92A1 for the first time in around a year and, damn, that gun shoots sooooo well. It's so accurate and sweet to shoot I frickin' love that thing! I've not shot any other in the 92 series, maybe they all shoot that well but the 92A1 is just a fantastic gun. Granted it's tweaked a tiny bit with the addition of the "D" spring to decrease the double action trigger pull but otherwise it's completely factory mechanics-wise.
My STI Elektra has considerably more recoil, being a .45acp, but it's just as accurate and insanely sweet to shoot. I tried two consecutive instinctive shots without aiming at 15 yards and put both shots directly in the middle of the bullseye!! It was absolutely amazing!! Probably couldn't do it just once again if my life depended on it but was pretty awesome at the moment lol. I don't know if all STI's guns shoot that well but I suspect they do. I can't imagine even more expensive 1911's shooting any better and that's high praise considering how well those other guns shoot.
Finally got to test fire my M&P40 after installing the Apex Tactical DCAEK kit. I was both impressed and disappointed. I was impressed how smooth the trigger was not compared to the crapstick it was before the DCAEK but very disappointed how heavy the trigger was. The gun definitely shot better but that's not saying much since it was horrible to start with. Even with the smooth trigger the pull weight was so high it made shooting accurately difficult. I really hoped that the kit would fix all the guns problems it's just not performing anywhere near it's actual potential. Next project is to find out how to lighten the trigger significantly and see if that improves the guns accuracy. It's a great gun, excellent ergonomics and great potential but those boneheads at S&W really released the original with a truly shitty trigger. They should have recalled every stinkin' one of them and installed a redesigned trigger system in them
. Hopefully after I lighten the trigger it will shoot as it's supposed to.
To end the day I took out the HK MP5 SD 22 for the first time in at least a year and half. It had been so long I was considering selling it. Since I already have three .22LR long guns, without the MP5, I decided to bring it, shoot it and decide whether I wanted to keep it or not. Just a few shots into the first mag and I was smiling ear to ear. I remember why I love that gun so much again! Mines equipped with a top rail where I have a Vortex Strikefire installed (Gen 1 with the magnifier and the red or green dot). It is AWESOME to shoot!!! The Umarex/Walther model (which mine is) has the same weight/balance etc as the real thing except caliber and is more fun than flogging frogs!! I'm definitely not selling
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Anywho...not exciting stuff but as dead as this place is it surely counts as riveting reading lol.