I'm very new to this whole handgun shooting thing (300 rounds of 9mm, 100 rounds of .22, and maybe 20 rounds of .38spl), but I love it already.
I've shot 9mm in the Glock 17 and the Beretta Cougar, and to my dismay, I really didn't like the Glock's handling. Somehow my small hands and small frame (5'6", 140lbs) make it a pain to control -- not to mention the small slide stop never seems to catch right.
In particular, I don't like the grips. The recoil flip feels like it keeps jumping out of my hands, especially when they're sweaty. (Probably in the order of 30deg of flip... way too much.)
I also seem to limp wrist it. Ugh.
Then I shot the Beretta Cougar with their revolving barrel trick. My, what a difference! The grips feel better, the recoil is much more controlled, and 50 rounds really was just plain fun. It's a pussycat gun and it feels almost like a .22 to me. Almost no recoil flip, and my hands don't hurt.
So I handled the USP 9mm -- wow! What a joy! Everything else balances perfectly -- kind of just sits right. Almost as nice as the sig 226 (but the 226 also is $150 more). The problem is that my local range doesn't have one to rent, and being in NJ, I don't have much choice (i.e. the next closest range with rentals is something like 1.5 hrs away).
So my question is this: How is the actual shooting handling of the USP 9 vs the Glock and the Beretta?
Some people here say that the recoil is similar to the Glock and the trigger is really bad, but I dry-fired the USP, Glock, and P226 at the store, and the glock had a creepy trigger, the 226 had a gritty one, and the USP had the only long-draw clean-break one (these were all new).
Is that true while firing, or is it a different story?
Thanks!
-jon
I've shot 9mm in the Glock 17 and the Beretta Cougar, and to my dismay, I really didn't like the Glock's handling. Somehow my small hands and small frame (5'6", 140lbs) make it a pain to control -- not to mention the small slide stop never seems to catch right.
In particular, I don't like the grips. The recoil flip feels like it keeps jumping out of my hands, especially when they're sweaty. (Probably in the order of 30deg of flip... way too much.)
I also seem to limp wrist it. Ugh.
Then I shot the Beretta Cougar with their revolving barrel trick. My, what a difference! The grips feel better, the recoil is much more controlled, and 50 rounds really was just plain fun. It's a pussycat gun and it feels almost like a .22 to me. Almost no recoil flip, and my hands don't hurt.
So I handled the USP 9mm -- wow! What a joy! Everything else balances perfectly -- kind of just sits right. Almost as nice as the sig 226 (but the 226 also is $150 more). The problem is that my local range doesn't have one to rent, and being in NJ, I don't have much choice (i.e. the next closest range with rentals is something like 1.5 hrs away).
So my question is this: How is the actual shooting handling of the USP 9 vs the Glock and the Beretta?
Some people here say that the recoil is similar to the Glock and the trigger is really bad, but I dry-fired the USP, Glock, and P226 at the store, and the glock had a creepy trigger, the 226 had a gritty one, and the USP had the only long-draw clean-break one (these were all new).
Is that true while firing, or is it a different story?
Thanks!
-jon