Well, well, well. My friend has had an XDS for a while now. When we go to the range I have a chance to shoot it. Every time I shoot it, I think that I should really get one. One of the last range trips, I figured it was probably time.
Have any of you played Battleship? You can get targets that have the game, and you have to shoot the other guys dots on the ships to sink them and win. We were at the Bountiful range and couple of the shooters next to us were using these targets. They gave us one so we could try it out. Immediately I was told that it was going to be me against my wife, friend, and his brother. I have more experience than all of them, but my wife and friend are pretty good shots. The brother doesn't have much shooting under his belt yet. Still, for every shot I had, they each got one shot. So that's one for me, and three for their team. I was a little nervous.
Since I was all by myself, I said that I should be allowed to choose which gun I was going to shoot. We had a choice between a Glock 19, 26, 35 and 30S, and two XDS pistolas. Both the XDS guns were 9mm. I went for my friends XDS with Talon Grips. It took me a little bit to figure exactly where to shoot to hit the dots on the ships, but I was hitting them fairly regularly. After many shots, I was hitting them almost every time. That gun is great. We started the game at about 20 or so feet. After a little while we decided to bring it in to maybe 15 feet. :thumbsup: The results of the game are below. I was shooting at green. For those who may be color blind, that's the left side of the photo.
I was pretty happy with the win. My friend and his brother shot maybe 10-15 rounds more after that game at their target, and they said they hit a couple more dots. They were shooting quickly, so the shots spread out a bit. While I do have more experience shooting than the others, I have to say that the gun really helped a lot. It is a fantastic little shooter.
I decided to sell the Shield so that I could buy one. My amazing wife allowed me to buy one before the Shield sold. I found one on UGE for an awesome price. I was able to snag it yesterday. Yes, my wife is totally awesome. :dancing:
My friend, the same one spoken of above, and I went to the range today to test out a couple new guns. The XDS and he snagged a S&W M&P CORE 9mm. That is a nice gun too. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the range session. The smaller group of shots was 10 shots at about 20 feet with target loads shooting slowly. The larger group I was shooting faster with 17 Federal HST's.
Yes, the Shield is a great little gun, but for me the XDS shoots better. This may or may not be the same for others, but this is what I have found for myself.
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Have any of you played Battleship? You can get targets that have the game, and you have to shoot the other guys dots on the ships to sink them and win. We were at the Bountiful range and couple of the shooters next to us were using these targets. They gave us one so we could try it out. Immediately I was told that it was going to be me against my wife, friend, and his brother. I have more experience than all of them, but my wife and friend are pretty good shots. The brother doesn't have much shooting under his belt yet. Still, for every shot I had, they each got one shot. So that's one for me, and three for their team. I was a little nervous.
Since I was all by myself, I said that I should be allowed to choose which gun I was going to shoot. We had a choice between a Glock 19, 26, 35 and 30S, and two XDS pistolas. Both the XDS guns were 9mm. I went for my friends XDS with Talon Grips. It took me a little bit to figure exactly where to shoot to hit the dots on the ships, but I was hitting them fairly regularly. After many shots, I was hitting them almost every time. That gun is great. We started the game at about 20 or so feet. After a little while we decided to bring it in to maybe 15 feet. :thumbsup: The results of the game are below. I was shooting at green. For those who may be color blind, that's the left side of the photo.
I was pretty happy with the win. My friend and his brother shot maybe 10-15 rounds more after that game at their target, and they said they hit a couple more dots. They were shooting quickly, so the shots spread out a bit. While I do have more experience shooting than the others, I have to say that the gun really helped a lot. It is a fantastic little shooter.
I decided to sell the Shield so that I could buy one. My amazing wife allowed me to buy one before the Shield sold. I found one on UGE for an awesome price. I was able to snag it yesterday. Yes, my wife is totally awesome. :dancing:
My friend, the same one spoken of above, and I went to the range today to test out a couple new guns. The XDS and he snagged a S&W M&P CORE 9mm. That is a nice gun too. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the range session. The smaller group of shots was 10 shots at about 20 feet with target loads shooting slowly. The larger group I was shooting faster with 17 Federal HST's.
Yes, the Shield is a great little gun, but for me the XDS shoots better. This may or may not be the same for others, but this is what I have found for myself.
Sent from iSnurd