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That, my friends, is match-winning accuracy. It’s built in at the plant in Italy. The trick is getting that accuracy out of the pistol.

David explained that he shot his at a seminar that Beretta held for the writers at the company he works for, Primedia. He described his test pistol’s trigger pull as follows: “The trigger was a bit heavier, 4.5 pounds, than I like. Don’t get me wrong. It was crisp with zero creep, no overtravel, and only took 3/16 inch of forward travel to reset.” ⁽¹⁾

I re-read that. “Huh? No over-travel? How come David and his buddies at Primedia rate? Where do I get an 87 like that?”

Apparently, the test gun provided had been specially tuned at the factory. Much more overtravel, resulting in backlash, is present in every out-of-the-box Model 87 Target I’ve run across.

Now, by the time I read David’s article, I had been shooting a test sample Model 87 Target provided by Beretta for this book. It was certainly a sweet-shooting little gun, but I wasn’t getting nearly the five-shot groups David was. I was using the iron sights, not a 7X scope, and that could have been part of it. I’ve seen David Fortier shoot, and I can tell you he’s a superb marksman, and that could have been a part of it. But after fighting with the trigger group after group, while the “best three shot” clusters were indicating tremendous accuracy potential, the fact that his pistol had no overtravel and mine had enough overtravel to qualify for frequent flyer miles probably also had something to do with the less than stellar performance.