So the last time I did any live fire before last night was 6/6/17. I still haven't done any dry fire practice in over a week probably a week and a half now. This was because I had to go out of town and didn't have the time or opportunity to do any dry fire practice. With that, I used last night's range trip to test myself on how I shoot what I have cold and see what the results would be. I took with me my P220, SP2022 (.40S&W), and G19Gen4. I did some warmup with each and then did some 25yard shooting. Unfortunately, because the only magazine that I have for the P220 was an unmarked somethingorother I was only able to get 14 rounds total down the pipe because the magazine baseplate disintegrated while doing remedial action. This is why you buy good quality magazines, kids.
With the G19Gen4 I put over 50 rounds through it before I did any 25 yard shooting. Groups at 5 and 7 yards were roughly on par with what I'm capable of throwing down with it on an average day. Going out to 25 yards, I was able to lay down a ~5-6" 10 round group almost half of those rounds were pushed slightly left, which for me is somewhat on par if I'm not being super diligent. The G19 is what I consistently practice with both live and dry and currently have over 4,600 rounds through this gun.
With the SP2022 I put 50 rounds total through it. Group size at the same distances with the G19 were about the same, but maybe a little more open as I'm not used to the extra snap and different recoil impulse in general. With the last 7 rounds that I had I decided to push it out to 25 yards for shits and giggles. I threw down a 3.5" group that was dead center. The last time I actually shot this pistol was sometime in the summer or fall of 2016. The last time I seriously dry fired it was sometime before that.
So now the question becomes, what do I make of this? With a pistol that I consistently practice and shoot with I do more poorly than with a pistol that I hardly do anything with. I'm not sure if this is due to the quality of the trigger/trigger break, the ergos of a SIG vs. a Glock for me personally, a combination of those two, or something else entirely. Part of me wants to say that it's time to move to something that I don't have to fight against. Part of me wants to say that I should invest in a more consistent and less garbage trigger for my G19 or find a way to make the existing one less garbage. Part of me wants to say that within 1 week of dry fire I'll be back to where I was at 25 yards and with further practice I can shoot the existing configuration of my G19 as good as the SP2022.
I'm just a civilian, so I'm not bound to LE or .mil decisions on what I have to carry. I won't be selling any of my guns as that doesn't make sense here. My Glocks have been functioning great and I'll continue to carry them for now, so if I make a move, I'll still always have my Glocks to fall back on. The SIGs aren't going away as the P220 is a collector/fun gun for me and the SP2022 fills a special role in that it shoots .40S&W and .357SIG. If I were to move to something else other than a G19, it'd have to be G19 sized, so I'm looking at something like the P320 compact, PX4c, SP2022 in 9mm, or something else.
I just got a bit of a reality check and need to know if I'm thinking straight or if I'm drawing incorrect conclusions on this data. Or if I simply don't have enough data yet to draw any conclusions and I need to not worry about it.