Originally Posted by
Tattoonick
I don't know if I would say better, or less to think about when the mind is stressed. Sure, you don't have to make the small distinction between DA and SA, but how about when you have a light primer strike or something, and in the heat of things when your mind is stressed you now have to change gears and rack the slide and chamber another round versus having a DA action pistol and simply pulling the trigger again.
Perhaps I am just missing something, but I have never heard of "simply pulling the trigger again." Unless I'm just way off the mark here, how would you know if you had a light primer strike without looking at the primer. The other scenario in this situation might be a bad round, or failure to even chamber a round. In all my pistol training, I've been trained to perform immediate action (i.e. "tap, rack, bang/squeeze/fire/etc."). In a gunfight you don't want to risk your life on what may be operator failure.
OP, as for DA/SA transitions, my first real pistol training was with Beretta M9s. It's a concept that comes easy for some and hard for others. The more you train with it, the more you'll get used to it. My advice: perfect practice makes perfect.
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