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Thought this could be fun and maybe useful to new shooters looking for a nice range gun
So here goes:
The 5 best 9mm range guns
Here is the criteria:
1) Must be 9mm for ammo price ( don't really need to hear how great .45 cal 1911's are or how you should start with a .22)
2) Must be readily available at a local gun shop (sorry this leaves out sig p210's and custom made guns)
3) Should be well balanced
4) Should have soft recoil
5) Should have a great trigger
6) Should be accurate
Things that are not really criteria:
1) Torture tests (you won't be packing this in sand and mud or dropping it from a helicopter)
2) 100% reliability 99% should be ok (we won't be pointing this at bad guys)
3) Bang for the buck (this can be a wish list)
4) Mag capacity
6) Consealabilty (we won't be packing them around all day in our waist band)
Here are my choices in no particular order:
1) Sig p226/p228
2) CZ 75 SP-01 TACTICAL
3) HK P30
4) SPRINGFEILD 9MM LOADED
5) S&W 5906
So here goes:
The 5 best 9mm range guns
Here is the criteria:
1) Must be 9mm for ammo price ( don't really need to hear how great .45 cal 1911's are or how you should start with a .22)
2) Must be readily available at a local gun shop (sorry this leaves out sig p210's and custom made guns)
3) Should be well balanced
4) Should have soft recoil
5) Should have a great trigger
6) Should be accurate
Things that are not really criteria:
1) Torture tests (you won't be packing this in sand and mud or dropping it from a helicopter)
2) 100% reliability 99% should be ok (we won't be pointing this at bad guys)
3) Bang for the buck (this can be a wish list)
4) Mag capacity
6) Consealabilty (we won't be packing them around all day in our waist band)
Here are my choices in no particular order:
1) Sig p226/p228
2) CZ 75 SP-01 TACTICAL
3) HK P30
4) SPRINGFEILD 9MM LOADED
5) S&W 5906
Although if you're a right handed shooter, the Glock 19 is the clear choice between the 2- value wise. The H&K is just too expensive unless nothing else works. The Glock felt very similar to me in feel when I tried both out. Just had trouble with the controls using my left hand.
