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Guilty as charged, that's me. I'm only one of many shooters who firmly believed the 9mm Luger cartridge was a real dog as far as accuracy was concerned. All of us are wrong. This began with an assignment to go to the NRA PPC National Championship in Jackson, Miss. Back when I shot it, PPC was purely a revolver game but the change to autopistols by law enforcement brought change to the match as well. Now the National Champion is the guy who does best with both pistol and revolver.
Revolvers are pretty much the same as they've always been, but in the pistol portion the overwhelming majority of shooters used a 9mm of some description. Walking the firing line and checking holsters revealed a lot of folks were shooting a S&W Performance Center pistol. There were a few duty guns like Glocks or SIGs, but almost everyone else was shooting a Government Model from one of the major companies. An awful lot of those were from Springfield Armory's Custom Shop. Dave Williams, Springfield's ace custom 'smith was also there and we struck up a conversation. He was filling me in on the 9mm guns most shooters were using. I expressed the opinion that 9mm's didn't shoot. He fell for it.
"Let me send you a couple of guns to try," he said. I put up a good fight but finally let him convince me. Don't you just love it was a plan works? In the fullness of time two pistols arrived from Geneseo.
Do They Shoot?
One was...
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