Preffered Carry Weapon and Stlye

[duckman1911]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

I could never shoot the smaller or lighter guns as well as I could the Sig P229. Maybe it's all the practice I did back in the day, but it became sort of an extension of my hand. It points where I want it to point and makes holes where I want the holes to be. A lot of the steps that are conscious and mechanical with smaller guns are ingrained, unconscious, automatic. Some of the other med to full size guns, I can do very well with by conscious focus on the fundamentals, steady sight picture, gentle trigger squeeze, but it is slower.

But my groups open up much more with the small pistols, even with careful application of the fundamentals. And recoil recovery to regain the sight picture is tough (slow). I can do much better with a Sig P229 in .40 S&W or .357 Sig than a Sig P232 in .380 or a Glock 26 in 9mm. In 9mm, the Sig P229 is just awesome.

As I've gotten into my 40s and my eyesight just doesn't focus as well quickly in multiple planes any more, having a gun that just points where I want is even more an asset. Used to have a training game: point the gun without the sights, turn on a laser, see how close. I've never carried pistol with a laser, but it's a great training aid.

I can see the training applications of a laser sight but do not like the idea of them for self defense. People are complacent and a laser sight makes it worse. Buy it, mount it, sight it, and forget it. Right? No need to practice anymore. Right? Two years later your door gets kicked in at 2 am you grab your lasered super gun and realize the batteries are dead. You havent shot your gun in two years because you didnt need to. That laser sight was supposed to take place of practice. Right?. Your gun and a good light and shoot at night with your light.Complacency will get you killed.