It's still timely. I love my Beretta M-92FS, and my son used the M-9 very successfully in Iraq. Succesfully as in six enemy KIA with it. He did have to shoot several more than once, but they were moving targets and the first shot didn't hit a vital zone.

I think the OP is asking too much of ANY service type auto to give a SA trigger pull like an S&W revolver has!

Try the sight pictures above and use Speer's Gold Dot 124 grain load or Federal's HST or Hydra-Shok ammo and I think the gun will serve you well, once you adapt to it and steady down and learn to pull a heavier auto trigger.