SD9 Magazines

For a very reasonably priced gun, magazines are silly expensive.  $40 a pop.  I tried the gun show today but struck out.  Found a total of four at local sporting goods stores.  All of the mags I found are for Sigmas but other than a slightly different floor plate, they are identical to the SD mags.  The Sigma floor plate blends right into the gun.

SD9 at the range

It was a blowing blustery day at the range.  Probably 30mph winds and a brisk 25 degrees.  The SD off the rest at 25 yards put together some 4 inch 10 shot groups for me.  I think it's capable of more, but not in those conditions.  At 10 yards I had no problems keeping 15 shots inside a two inch circle off hand.  I also stopped by the store and tried the gun in a Serpa M&P holster (size 25) which fits it like a glove.  I'm betting most holsters for the M&P will fit the SD9 with no problems at all.

Pictures of the SD9

Hopefully it will go to the range tomorrow.  I did about 200 dry fires last night.  I really like the way it feels in my hands.  The trigger is just fine, it's no STI but I like it.  For a budget gun it sure has a nice finish.

New Pistol Smith and Wesson SD9

A S&W SD9 followed me home this week.  I really like the trigger.  It's better than a Glock trigger and certainly better than a Sigma trigger.  I've never had a chance to shoot an M&P so I can't comment on that.  Overall I like the gun to start.  It's grip angle is slightly different than my P95 so I'm a little slower getting on target.  The front night sight is great, very easy to pick up in low/no light.  It appears the magazines are Sigma mags with a different base plate,  $40 a pop is bit expensive, but that's S&W for you.  The grip frame is very comfortable and surprisingly slim for a double stack gun.  I've got a nice holster on the way for it and I'm hoping that the Serpa M&P holster will fit it.  Pics and a range report to follow.

My first pistol match

Yesterday I bit the bullet and entered a USPSA club match.  I've had exactly two practice sessions with the club and I was hooked.

Here is the blow by blow:


First stage.  This stage was called confusion and I wish that I could have come at it a little later in the day.  From the start box there were two stacked targets on the right and two side by side targets on the left.  When that buzzer went off I was so hopped up I managed to miss one target completely and Alpha/Charlie the other three.  After the first two you run through a doorway and there are four more targets, two left, two right.  Somewhere in that group you've got to do a mag change.  I should have shot left first, then it's easy to do a safe mag change when switching to the right hand targets.  I failed at that and almost got a DQ for muzzle breaking the 180.  Then you procede through another doorway and engage three more targets, two left, one right.  I did ok on these and then it was time for another mag change.  Then there are four steel targets to shoot through a low porthole.  I took two shots on each before I got them all down.  The second row of targets were all A/C while the three before the steel were A/D, A/A, and A/C.  Third row were all C/C  An absolutely dismal performance.

Second stage.  This stage started in a chair facing a porthole with three targets.  I did really well on these getting A/A on all three.  Then there were two more groups of three targets that I believe were all A/C and then three steel targets that had to be engaged through the porthole.  I missed the steel quite a bit and that hurt my time as well.  I went slower on this round but those C hits really hurt.  Some people may be able to miss fast enough to win this game, but I can't.  The range officer warned me that I had my finger in the trigger guard during my mag changes.  This is a first for me.  I'm usually very careful about that but when concentrating on everything else it appears that I slipped.

Third stage.  Steel Qualifier.  With only six targets 36 feet away, you'd think this one would be easy.  So they but a board right in front of you and make you shoot around it.  When I practiced this, I placed one foot on each fault line and used that extra wide stance to get low and lean around the barrier.  When I shot it for real, I tried a left foot back stance.  I really had to crane around to shoot at the targets and it took me twelve rounds to put those six targets down.  After the stage, the range officer told me that I was missing left.  That was a real eye opener two me as I though I was missing high.  On further examination my middle finger was tightening with my trigger finger pulling the gun to the left.  *Sigh* Yet another thing to work on.

Fourth stage.  A texas star.  Hunt youtube if you want to see what this is.  I did pretty well on this stage making my goal of under one minute.  Of course par time would be 12 seconds so you know what my score was like.

Fifth stage.  I'd gotten another warning about my trigger finger so the only thing I worked on during this stage was trigger finger placement.  I ran it really slow and got some awesome hits through out the stage.

Moral of the story?  Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.  If I'd fired all my stages like the last one, I would have finished much higher in the standings.  I'll have to remember to come read this before my next match.

Religious Fanatics

The little punk ass preacher down in Florida?  How come this makes the news?  Burning books, what is this 1810?  The guy is a complete nut job with an invisible friend that talks to him.  The only people who should be paying attention to this guy are the ones with the nicely tailored jackets and rooms with upholsterer walls.

Hippie

You are 35% hippie.

 

You're in the middle, leaning towards the non-hippie side of things, but you're not afraid to try out some hippie philosophies.  Good going!  An open mind is all a person really needs to lead a happy life.

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