-> as for the dreaded 'transition' from DA to SA in
-> subsequent shots, all I can say is "What transition?".
My personal experience with this type of sidearm is extremely limited.
I ran across the following on the Internet.  It's an excerpt from a
monthly  newsletter of comments by Jeff Cooper.
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I enjoy controversy, and I am annoyed by the fact that those who agree
with me are the ones who write to me personally, whereas those who wish
to discredit my preachings write to the editor of the magazine, in the
possible hope that I will not take on their arguments personally.
Fortunately the editors usually send the hostile communications right
on to me, and I enjoy getting my teeth into them.  When I am wrong I
wish to learn about it, as only thus can I improve my awareness of the
subject.  On the other hand, when someone chooses to denigrate me when
I am in actuality right, it is rather fun to deflate his hostile
arguments with the rapier rather than with the axe.
In this line a correspondent recently complained to the magazine (not
to me) about my mention of the "shot-cock" system as a means of
operating the trigger-cocking pistol.  This shot-cock system, in case
you have not caught the argument, is a firing stroke by which the
shooter plants his first round as quickly as he possibly can from the
hammer-down position, cocking with the trigger.  He pays little
attention to precise control of the shot, but concentrates on getting
it off as rapidly as possible so that he can place his second shot from
the cocked position -- with accompanying precision.  The correspondent
in this case claims that I must be out of my mind in that such a
procedure is an invitation to negligent discharge.  In the first place
it is not, since the shooter fires his first shot in the general
direction of his adversary.  It may actually hit, though it usually
does not, but it is not a negligent discharge.  Certainly I do not
teach this system, since I consider it a sloppy answer to an
unfortunate mechanical contrivance, but to deny that it exists would be
foolish.  I have seen it work on the range, and I know of a case where
it was used on the street in Phoenix with decisive success.  On the
range I once saw a student place second in the shoot off, though not
once did he hit his target with his first shot.  I had not taught him
this but he had worked it out for himself, and I cannot condemn him for
that.   Our critic goes on further to say that the thumb-cocking
system, by means of which the pistol is cocked with the left thumb as
it comes up on target, is technically unworkable.  In class work I
always permit any student who is stuck with a trigger-cocking pistol
either to thumb-cock or to use the crunch-tick system, whichever seems
best to him.  Thumb-cocking wins almost every time.
It seems that my correspondent is operating from an unsound base, not
having had the experience to see what works in practice, but rather
worrying primarily about the deadly danger of negligent discharge.  I
have taught thousands of pistol shooters, and I cannot remember the
last time we had a negligent discharge on the range.
Curiously enough, the hostility I detect expends itself in personal
insult rather than attention to the facts.  One does not win arguments
by casting aspersions at one's opposition, but rather by careful
presentation of the pertinent facts, but then we do not teach debating
skills in schools anymore, as far as I know.
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