My firt time firing my XD 9mm

[gr8johnson]

This is my first handgun and only the 4th time ever shooting one. I have much experience shooting in the Marines, but not handguns. I took a friend to the range after work. We split the range time and fee. I was a little nervous, but excited. I put the first target out about 10 yds. Loaded a single round. Got all line up and fired. Bullseye. I was impressed at how smooth the trigger pull was. So I loaded up 8 more rounds. Because my friend had a 7 rd mag in his Bersa 380 I didn't want to hog the lane with too many rounds in my mag. I fired the next 8 rounds. All but one in the black. Wow I thought. I rock. But I figured it was beginners luck. He got his turn. I put up another target. 6 out of 8 in the black with 1 in the red. Could have covered them with a 4 inch circle. A couple strayed out a couple inches. I shot on 12 targets most at about 10 yds and a couple at about 12 or 13yds. 90% of my shots were in the black and tight groups and quite a few in the red. But almost everything was left of the bullseye. Hmmm I shot to the left a lot. I couldn't believe how easy and smooth this gun is. I love it. The guy at the range was standing behind us at one point, I think because he knew we were beginners and I never shot the gun and he didn't want us to kill anyone. Well he said that was some nice shooting especially for a beginner. I noticed he had an XD strapped to his hip. I felt pretty good about that. I definitely feel that handling the gun at home while just sitting in front of the TV and getting the feel for it helped a lot. But I think that the gun made it easy. I spent a lot of time researching which gun to buy. I have no doubts that I made the right choisc. When I buy my carry I will look at the compact version. It felt good in my hand.

[agalindo]

Nice range report.

[EJ25]

Cool