Before you try to turn your Shield into a range pistol consider what the Shield is designed for. It a defensive (Garlic breath distance if history is considered) handgun so the design engineers put a defensive trigger pull on these.
It's only, '
garlic breath' if you've been reading all THE WRONG published reports. First, it needs to be determined whether or not the combatant is involved in a CQB pistol AMBUSH, or in a CQB pistol GUNFIGHT. The one is NOT equal to the other!
Current street combat statistics clearly indicate that the old NYPD, and FBI gunfight incident reports were all written in error, and consequently produced incorrect conclusions that far too many IGF board members continue to accept as, '
gospel'. Here's a truism about CQB pistol gunfighting that, someday, just might save your life: (Ready?)
THE CLOSER TWO PISTOL GUNFIGHTERS ARE TO EACH OTHER THE MORE LIKELY IT IS THAT EITHER ONE, OR THE BOTH OF THEM WILL END UP BEING SHOT.
Your best solution? Don't allow a protagonist who's armed with a gun to get too close to you. (Which is the principal reason, '
Why' I've trained with a pistol for the past 15 years at distances of: 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, and 22 yards.)
At and inside Tueller's infamous distance of 7 1/2 yards I don't even use my sights. Here, survival depends more upon speed; and, with sufficient practice, most pistoleros should be able to do quite well by simply pointing the muzzle at the target. Remember, when an opponent is this close to you, and at or inside 7 1/2 yards, speed (hand speed AND draw speed) can make a critical difference!
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Jailhouse interviews' have proven that, AT CLOSE RANGE, pointing the pistol, and firing rapidly can often be more effective than hesitating and taking the time to aim; BUT, the ability to produce accurate hits remains important.
Too many new owners immediately think they need to re-design a pistol. My wife chose the Ruger LC9s Pro. I feel it's trigger pull is far too light for a defensive pistol.
Oh, really! Are you aware of what MOST PEOPLE, who are NOT heavily practiced with a pistol, will do in a CQB pistol confrontation? An inexperienced, or only lightly practiced, right-handed shooter will fire his bullets to the low left-hand side of the target, and will also frequently, '
miss by a mile'.
(Which is a common complaint I hear - especially from female shooters - about early model Ruger LCP's, as well as the reason, '
Why' Sturm-Ruger has so significantly improved on their early LCP triggers.)
I've been in these situations. When pulling that trigger you won't notice it if its even a TWENTY POUND PULL when your stress level is high. Poli Viejo
So have I. More than once, and against more than a single shooter, too. You know what you will notice? THE TARGET not going down in front of you as your pistol goes: Bang! Bang! Bang!
Which continues to be my one greatest fear - NOT being ambushed or caught by surprise, but missing the target instead! The possibility of exactly this sort of event is the principal reason, '
Why' I so very much detest all of these little, '
pacifier pistols'; and would, personally, never carry one as a primary sidearm; but, hey, that's just me!
(Yes, I know small handguns are, '
all the rage' within the self-defense community, right now; but, fortunately for the people who own these little things - and before Hillary Clinton takes them all away - only a very few people will ever have to actually defend their lives with one of these cute little, '
pacifier pistols'. Me? Regardless of caliber I ain't going any smaller than a compact size frame. )
