My wife shoots pretty good, but usually not this good. She's been working on IDPA, but today we went indoors, just the two of us for quiet time at the 50 ft range. She with her XD9, me with 3 22's in a 63, a 2206, and a 2206 red dot.
Her groups are all about 4" or 5" bouncing around the bullseye, with the first 3 guns. Pretty normal for her at this distance, but she's been trying, struggling, to get even better. Then for the heck of it she tried my 2206 with a red dot. First time she has shot it in about 10 years. It has a stiff trigger and is top heavy, but I did some bullseye with it years ago.
The left target was her first 10 shots with it. Offhand, 2 handed. We walked up to retrieve the target, and saw the 5 shot cloverleaf hole in the mix! The right target is her next 10, a 1 7/8" group centered in the bull. Then we had to hurry and leave to get somewheres.
With that right target, I'm thinking she can shoot as well as me now! But she must have been having trouble with open sights all this time. Maybe vision, or technique, or some problem. A red dot doesn't improve my shooting much at all, but it knocked her group size in half!
That cloverleaf has me scared. If she can do that again without the flyers from a trigger she wasn't used to. If she can shoot that right target again, but do it 1 handed. We've got to buy a better gun, like a 22/45. With a red dot, which she seems to need, I wonder if she'll be competitive at club level. Wonder if she can be better than me. Of course I want her to be better than me
So long story short, do you see potential in those two groups? We need a gun with a better trigger for this
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