At local indoor range today I shot a hundred rounds from a Beretta 92fs 9mm. In the past, I’ve just banged away and congratulated myself on fair to middling results. Not today. This time I wanted to fire repeated shots from de-cock, double action. It occurred to me maybe late in life (I hope not too late) that the FIRST shot [in DA] is THE MOST important shot - so let’s focus on that.
Am I surprised, frustrated, and seriously pissed off? YES, DAMIT!!!!
Apparently, from SA I’m not too shabby [well . . . you know, for ME] but from DA - WHOA! Hitting the paper was an event, let alone hitting the target. I guess I’d been in denial before by firing the first shot DA and the remainder of the mag SA. So the blinders are now GONE.
Questions: (1) CAN first shot DA proficiency be seriously improved? Keep in mind that I'm looking at 70 for my next birthday in October(2) If so, HOW? (3) If so, how long would it take the average shooter to see some improvement? I mean, if I can’t do better than this, I’ll be moving over to cocked and locked or striker fired. I don't want to become a corpse because I screwed up the first DA shot.
HELP!!!