On Accuracy…

I’ve long believed we get all wrapped around the axle regarding handgun accuracy for little good reason. Most any modern handgun will shoot far more “accurately” than the vast majority of us can shoot. Is it cool? Sure. Satisfying? Yes. But for a defensive handgun, arguably largely irrelevant. Here’s a great read on the topic…

So I shot the gun at the normal combat range of seven yards,” reads all too many lines, in all too many gun articles I see. Who says it’s seven yards, anyway? And I see this reader mail: “I didn’t see any accuracy testing at 25 yards,” generally in reference to an article about a pocket gun of some sort. It got me to thinking: What is accuracy, how much of it do we really need — and is it overrated?

Read: On Accuracy at American Handgunner