Well, I'm just not going by low price or "right time/place opportunity." I'm also fixin' to get yelled at by the OP for adding another. Anyway...
I'm still awfully happy how my blind swing at the EAA-imported Tanfoglio Witness Elite Match has worked out for me. I had wished and hoped for an accurate 9mm pistol. It seems (to me) that the lion's share of 9mm-chambered pistols on the market are built to 'combat-accurate' standards but I was interested in finding a handgun in this caliber that was capable of producing small groups on paper when I do my part.
For sure, I know there are some out there. Some Hi-Powers, some 9mm-chambered 1911's, the HK P7 series, and that's saying nothing of the true champion guns like the Sig P210, the S&W 952 and other extremely expensive guns.
What I wanted was a very good trigger, an all steel gun, adjustable sights, accurate, and in 9mm. The Tanfoglio guns certainly have a following in some competition circles, but are -far- more popular in Europe, with European competitors.
My only experience with one was handling a used Elite Match that was chambered in .45 Auto, and trying the trigger on that one. The trigger, the (apparent?) build quality and the feel of the pistol and the movement of the slide inside the frame rails said to me "take a chance on one of these."
So I'd been on the lookout for an Elite Match in 9mm and to this very day, I've never, not EVER seen one sitting anywhere I've visited.
Don't buy a lot of new guns, I'm far more the used gun kinda guy. And these things aren't really all too easy to find new, either. But I found a dealer in Minnesota that sells new guns via Gunbroker and I went for it.
The pistol has given me nothing but grins over the (almost exactly...) three years now I've had it, and four thousand rounds through it.
No picture... but it's not all that great looking anyway. But what a shooter.