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Gary, I am pretty happy with my G43, its about the right size, the trigger does not bother me that much, I like the Trijicon big orange front sight dot and the U shaped rear, the pistol comes out of the holster and seems about in the right place in front of me when it goes bang. Of course I am certainly not near as good a marksman as many here, but I do get a hit occasionally.

Well, if it means anything, just took a new G40 out the box and the trigger pulled around 7 pounds +/-. Detail strip, cleaned, oiled, dry fired the trigger a bit. Now breaks 6 pounds 1 ounces, no polish, just clean and oil. I never fired the pistol, but imagine when I run it a bit, the trigger will settle down about like my G43. This gun, however, is not a carry gun, it is specifically for hunting. Depending on what type of accuracy I can squeeze out of it, and I am even prepared to change barrels, I likely will likely run a drop in trigger before it is done. Not looking for light, but looking for crisp break.

I dunno, it depends on what your definition of "the top" is.

I'd say that if there's more than 25-30 then you can start refining your definition of "the top".

There are lots of really good shooters that can shoot very well, but a very small percentage are exceptional.

Only when nobody is watching.




Dave

I started building my hand strength around age 12.






Dave

I have tried the 10mm twice now, both in G20's, of course now that they have the 40 released I am sure that I must waste more money proving to myself again that I cannot shoot a Glock with enough confidence that I would try to hit a deer at 40 yards

Yeah, I guess it depends on the definition.

I've shot against a lot of really good shooters at various levels in a lot of different classes & with a variety of guns.

While your number might only encompass the very elite professional full time shooters, my number would include most of the really high level competitive shooters that are more than just really good; they are really, really good.........some of the consistently very best that I've seen are, either currently or past, military team shooters.

MM

Good shooters in the sport/comp world are abundant while great shooters are rare. The best shooters are able to shoot w/out missing while discriminating the bad guys and not shooting through or around innocents. They can do so in the dark while wearing a respirator and may have arrived via parachute or submarine.


mike r