Well hello again. My wife and I meandered down to Doug's to test out the 42 not too long before we cruised down to the UCC dinner at Rib City.
So how did it do? It seems that with any new gun, or a gun that one is unfamiliar with, it takes a little getting used to. With this little fella, shooting quickly would bring the shots out quite a bit from center. When shot slowly, we could get nice accurate shots. I think that the quick firing will improve once we get used to the small size and it has some more ammo through it to help the trigger a bit.
It is an accurate pistol.We were using Walmart Winchester ammo and were able to get some good groups. For me it did shoot just a tad high at the range we were shooting. We didn't try any long distance shooting, and kept it to about 18 feet. The pictures below are 12 shot groups at that range. I didn't do any bench rest shots, so these are just run of the mill isosceles stance shots.
It did have pretty low recoil. Being a small gun and very light, it was nice not to have the thing buck too much. We didn't shoot it side by side with the Shield, so I can't give a review of the differences in recoil between the little 9mm and the mini .380. We will have to do that next time we head to the range.
Something of note, the trigger was an interesting beast. We tried two different finger placements on the trigger to see which was best. This was more of a test to see if it affected shot placement for my wife, but more of a necessity for me. Why? For me, while shooting with the regular finger placemtent (middle of the pad) was very painful. The trigger safety dig into my finger and shooting a couple mags that way made me want to poop my britches.
Has anyone ever shot a Kel-tec PF9? My friend had one and didn't have the same issue I did. But every time I shot it, the trigger felt like it wanted to take my finger off. It was one of the nastiest triggers I have ever shot. I tried different placements with the PF9, but it didn't matter. I had to stop shooting it.
Slightly different with the G42. While the first placement of my finger was painful, I tried a second. I moved the trigger to the joint closest to the tip of my finger. I usually shoot DA revolvers that way, and it works excellent. After the switch, there was no pain at all. I could have shot that baby all day without a problem. Changing to the other placement didn't change the point of impact for me either. Both shot in the same place. I'm not sure exactly what the difference was for my wife, but she shot it both ways and didn't have any issues with pain.
We shot 100 rounds of the Winchester, and also some Gold Dots to see how they would feed. Everything worked out except for one hiccup. I think it may have been due to a thumb placement because the slide locked back while there was still ammo in the mag. We didn't have any problems except for that one, and I'm pretty sure it was human error and not the gun itself.
My wife claimed this gun within seconds of me telling her it was available for us to go get. I'll just have to wait for the next one. So the gun was immediately Mickified. If you are not familiar with the term, it is the application of something that resembles Micky Mouse. You will see the Mickification in the photos below.
So, even though I had an initial issue with the trigger, I think this is a great gun. The trigger issue was easily worked out by switching my finger placement. My wife loves it. It's nice and small, has low recoil, and is easy to conceal. She wore it last night to the dinner, and said that she could barely even feel that it was there.

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