What is the most accurate pistol you have ever shot?

[Ron H.]

What is the most accurate pistol you have ever shot with iron sights. Fixed or adjustable is fine.

Sir, interesting question, and also kind of hard to answer. I imagine I've owned a lot of very accurate pistols over the years, but couldn't demonstrate their accuracy at the time. It's taken me many years to get more than halfway accurate with a handgun, and I'm still no great pistoleer. I can only guess which was the most mechanically accurate.

The handguns I've shot my best groups with have mainly been .22s and 1911s.

I shot my first honest-to-goodness 2-inch offhand group at 25 yards with a lovely mid-'50s K22 Masterpiece; sadly, I had to sell that gun because of a layoff. My Browning Buckmark can be surprisingly good, even with junky ammo. I once put five shots into a 1-5/8" offhand group with it at 25 yards--my best group with a pistol so far.

With a 1911, I'm generally doing well to hold five shots in about 3 inches offhand at 25 yards. I had a Les Baer and a series 1 Kimber that were almost certainly capable of better than that, but I couldn't prove it at the time. Both are long gone now, again courtesy of the afore-mentioned layoff. My old Colt is downright rattly, but usually will put five shots into 3 to 3-1/2 inches at 25 yards offhand if I do my part. I suspect that fitting a tighter barrel bushing would improve this somewhat.

What would be really neat is if I could have every handgun I've ever owned back for just one range trip. It would be interesting to see what I can do with them now compared to back when I used to own them.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

 

[bushmaster1313]

By far and away above anything else.......

That looks mighty darn close to one of them thumbhole assault pistols.

 

[deadin]

That looks mighty darn close to one of them thumbhole assault pistols.

Yeah, and its rate of fire is 60 rounds in 2 hours........
(Standard Free Pistol Match rules.)

 

[mafuta54]

1946 S&W M&P .38 Special!

 

[NCTexan]

My Model 41 with 5.5" barrel and Burris Fastfire or the 7" iron sights is my most accurate rim fire.

I used to say that my S&W 952-2 was my most accurate center fire.

However, now I shoot a CZ 75-SP01 the most accurately. This pistol was amazingly accurate out of the box and I sent it to the CZ Custom Shop for their trigger job and tweak. A real shooter at a good price.

 

[fltbed]

What is the most accurate pistol you have ever shot with iron sights. Fixed or adjustable is fine.

Keith beat me to it.

Hands down, T/C Contender 10" in 7mm TC/U. I used one of these back in the 80's for metallic silhouette. That gun would easily shoot ½ MOA with SMK.
(Sadly, in competition, I was only capable of about 15 MOA…on a good day. Unless I was shooting at the turkeys, Then I was at about 100 MOA.)

Jeff

 

[DWFAN]

For a .22 this,


In .357 my 15-2 Dan Wesson.
DW

 

[Kinman]

Model 41 S&W was a very accurate pistol, I think one of my K-22s is nearly as accurate. As far as centerfire pistols I did not own it but I shot an old Ruger Blackhawk in 30 carbine that was the scariest accurate pistol I had ever fired.

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

Most accurate ones I've ever shot:
1. Ruger Mark II (.22)
2. Smith & Wesson model 67 (4" barrel)
3. Ruger GP100 (6" barrel)

 

[nicky4968]

I have never had the opportunity to shoot some of the fine .22 autos here.

But since the question was the most accurate pistol with iron sights I have ever shot, it has to be a Benelli B76 in 9 mm. Breathtaking.

If accuracy were all that mattered, I would have it still. There were other reasons I traded it off.

 

[model70hunter]

An old pre-war 22 masterpiece and a Python I carried as my duty gun. I squirrel hunted with both. Either one would head shoot a running squirrel. Both made one hole in the black at 25'.