![]() Once I had mastered this holding technique, I was amazed at this little pistol’s accuracy. ![]() ![]() The pressure from my non-shooting thumb kept the other thumb away from the safety. The solution? I laid my shooting thumb over the left grip on a horizontal line with the middle of the trigger, then placed my other thumb over the shooting thumb at a 90-degree angle. I was holding the Micro 9 Rapide much like a full-sized 1911, with my shooting thumb riding up on the frame. With the recoil of firing, my hand came up on the grip and onto the beavertail, and the side of my shooting hand’s thumb engaged the ambidextrous butterfly safety. The one problem I had with the Micro 9 Rapide, early on, was gripping the pistol too high. In over 200 rounds, I experienced no loading or ejecting malfunctions. To answer that question, I used five brands of ammunition in the Micro 9 Rapide, including Winchester’s Train and Defend self-defense round with a 147-grain jacketed hollow point bullet. So, I had to wonder: can I hit anything with it? Range time But it was also small, fairly short with a 3.1-inch barrel, and weighed under a pound.
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