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My favorite is still the lowly .22 lr. I never realized it until I was out shooting with a few buddies. None of us were good shots with a handgun, but we had set up bowling pins and one of the guys walked to about the 30 yard line and started shooting at them. I had a Glock 23, a buddy had a USP 45 I had sold him that day, and I think the other one was a Glock 19. Hundreds of rounds were shot between 3 of us at those pins and we only hit a few, we were horrible! I think an unspoken “man card” rule meant that none of us dared to take a single step closer when it was our turn. For some reason I decided to try my old High Standard Double Nine, and subsequently knocked down 9 pins in a row from that same distance. The next month I bought a Buckmark and didn’t pick up another handgun for a year. When I started shooting centerfire again, I bet my group sizes were 4 times smaller, if not more. Years later I probably still shoot 1,000 rounds of .22 for every 50 rounds of centerfire.
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