I took my new M9 with the 2 mags it came with and 300 rounds of Winchester White Box 9mm to the range with me this morning.

I was shooting at 75 feet.  I normally like to shoot at around 50 yards, but since this was a new gun I wasn't sure I'd be used to it enough to shoot at that distance.

I put up a regular 8.5 x 11 inch white sheet of paper and was just aiming for anywhere I saw white.  Often times firing as fast as I could reacquire the sights.  My first 10 shots were low.  After getting used to the gun and trigger, all my shots were on the paper.

Some obsevations:
- The gun has a nice size and weight to it.  Recoil with the 9mm is minimal.
- Double taps and fast firing are about as easy as it gets.  Much easier than my G19 (but my G19 is lighter and slimmer)
- The double action trigger pull is long and pretty hard.  It felt like it was loosening and lightening up a bit as the session went on, but this could just be me getting used to it.
- The single action pull and rest is beautiful and makes for a sweet-shooting pistol
- The gun is incredibly accurate
- With 15 or 17 rounds mags and 1 in the pipe this thing is a fine defensive arm
- I love it and want to carry it, but aside from during the winter I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to conceal it.  It's just huge!

I had no undesired functions or stoppages during the 300 rounds.  In fact, I enjoyed myself so much and found the gun to be so accurate that I can't wait to shoot it some more.  This gun will be shot and shot very often I think.

This is one fantastic firearm!  Now I just need to get a good holster for it and figure out how I can conceal it.  How do you guys do it????  

Overall, I consider this pistol to be a MUST OWN

I just fired 32 rounds through my Beretta M9 today!
Of course no problems at all with the Winchester Whitebox. Will hit the real range tommorow and give it a workout.


Really light recoil, follow up shots were super fast. I fired mine at about thirty feet, and aimed for some plastic water bottles as well as a large plastic orange juice bottle. Filled with water, the effect wasn't something to shout and brag about, but I could easily put more rounds into the target quickly. Recoil compared to my Beretta 96 Vertec is next to nothing, but so was the effect of the water bottles. All in all I really like it and being able to have 16 rounds in the pistol is pretty neat, since I am used to the .40 S&W, .45 ACP, and the 9mm in a single stacked Luger P-08.



Also, Fifty yards seems pretty extreme. I have shot at fifty before but it sure is an awful long way out. I usaully try to stick at about eight yards and then only rarely do I shoot out past fifty yards.

I can keep ike 90% of my shots on a paper plate at 50 yards with guns that I've practiced with extensively.  Not too had.  The best part about doing that is that shooting at "real" distances seems like a joke.