[expat2]

The problem with DA pistols is staging* the trigger after shooting them at targets for a while. The time used up in staging the trigger can be the time-delay that makes you dead in a combat situation.

* that is: first cocking the hammer with the initial, heavy-pull part of the trigger travel, then sighting, and finally firing.

[PowderMonkey]

"The problem with DA pistols is staging* the trigger after shooting them at targets for a while. The time used up in staging the trigger can be the time-delay that makes you dead in a combat situation."

Never was a problem for me or my colleagues when our standard issue sidearm was the S&W Model 19. All still alive. Those that opposed them still dead. One man became a living legend in fending off an attack by multiple aggressors armed with AK-47. He took a bullet through the neck, but survived, and left 3 dead. S&W Model 19. The right hand of freedom in the 1980s.

[riverrunner]

Not for good double action shooters.

Having fired tens of thousands of round through double action revolvers.

Tens of thousands of rounds through autos of all types semi autos.

There isn’t a time different for a well practice user.