Shooting PPC during the time at the start of the semiauto competitions, the hunt was on for guns that would shoot 2" or less at 50 yards. Most of the PPC 9s 5" or 6" would hold sub 2",but were very ammo sensitive. I went through 4 before I found 1 that would hold 1 1/ 2" with the ammo I was using. I think S/W changed the twist around 2000/01 to favor the heavier bullets 124/147that became popular at that time. My older guns from the first runs shoot lighter 105/115 bullets best. A lot of times it was the first round that would spread the group by 1/2 ". Tried Springfield custom and found they could build using a barrel pretested to shoot my ammo the best . So it made things easier and the 3 built guns from them would all shoot sub 2" easily and held about 1.5 to 1.75 with any 124 gr to 147 gr bullets from Winchester or Federal.
As far as the comment about a Briley bushing gun being not good for self defense or EDC , its probably like everything else, depends who makes the gun and the care of the pistol. Heres my EDC and duty pistol, off duty match gun for 20 years or so, still groups 1" at 25 yrds and has way over 25,000 rds through it with out a hiccup. And its an alloy frame .CQB/ IDPA owners might add more comments to this I don't know.
Last edited by CALREB; 12-08-2019 at 03:38 PM.
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