First 9mm?

[strife]

Well, the vague plan originally was...

Get a smaller caliber handgun to re-warm up to shooting, and start becoming a regular at the range, while not breaking the bank on 80$ Days of shooting.

Whatever you decide on, you may want to get some snap caps. They will allow you to practice your trigger pulls and gain some muscle memory for free while at home. Also, useful if you do any work on your gun once you get it back together to verify that it's functioning w/out putting live ammo through it. They are relatively cheap. I bought a box of 5 on ebay for about $7 and got my moneys worth after replacing the trigger on my SR40. It would dry fire fine, but the trigger would get stuck in the back position after using the snap caps which turned out to be a n issue with one of my springs when I put it back together... having the snap caps saved me a lot of frustration of going to the range and figuring out the problem then.

The guns I was originally eyeing was a Beretta M9 in 9mm, a Sig p226 in 40S&W, and the Sprinfield 1911 "Loaded" (I LOVE this gun, but don't want to spend ~1100 on my first pistol, to be stuck shelling out the cash for 45's). reading more and more about the S&W 5906 though, I'm beginning to sway from the Beretta...

My next gun will be a 1911... I'm in love with them. I just love the history of them, I love the way they look, the way they feel, the way they shoot. I have a man crush on them.