I finally made my first pistol purchase and I decided on the P14 LDA. After my first range experience, I only have one complaint. In all of my eagerness, I seemed to have glossed over one very important aspect when researching this pistol, it is DAO. Since I shot it, I have gone back and reread a lot of the posts dealing with LDAs and saw where it was clearly stated in each that this was a DAO pistol, but I somehow missed out on this fact.
The most confussing thing is that when I fire a shot and release the trigger, I can feel the trigger resetting, like a DA/SA pistol.But unlike those pistols, I have to ride the trigger out until the second click to be ready to fire again. All of my training has been on a Beretta M9, so I will need to work on conditioning myself to release the trigger completely.
Also, this being the first time that I have shot a .45 since I joined the military, I have become way to accustomed to 9mm recoil. The .45 recoil had me flinching after a few rounds, so more shooting is in order
I found that it shot decent when I took my time with the shots, but in rapid fire, my groups went wild. Just to check to make sure that I hadn't lost it, I grouped a Glock 17 into a nice tight group, that recoil was just kicking my butt.
That being said, I have so far found this to be a nice gun. The only mechanical faults that I found had to do with the first round not feeding correctly, but as this only happened when my brother in law chambered it, or when I chambered a mag loaded by him, I think that it was user error.
I am not dissatisfied with my purchase in anyway. I just know that now I will have to spend even more time at the range getting used to the feel of it, oh darn.
The most confussing thing is that when I fire a shot and release the trigger, I can feel the trigger resetting, like a DA/SA pistol.But unlike those pistols, I have to ride the trigger out until the second click to be ready to fire again. All of my training has been on a Beretta M9, so I will need to work on conditioning myself to release the trigger completely.
Also, this being the first time that I have shot a .45 since I joined the military, I have become way to accustomed to 9mm recoil. The .45 recoil had me flinching after a few rounds, so more shooting is in order
I found that it shot decent when I took my time with the shots, but in rapid fire, my groups went wild. Just to check to make sure that I hadn't lost it, I grouped a Glock 17 into a nice tight group, that recoil was just kicking my butt.That being said, I have so far found this to be a nice gun. The only mechanical faults that I found had to do with the first round not feeding correctly, but as this only happened when my brother in law chambered it, or when I chambered a mag loaded by him, I think that it was user error.
I am not dissatisfied with my purchase in anyway. I just know that now I will have to spend even more time at the range getting used to the feel of it, oh darn.
