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The Blazer, which I bought over the counter for $9.95 per brick, had actually given the best accuracy, beating even the Pistol Match by a very slight margin. The cheapest load coming out on top for precision isn’t something that happens every day, particularly in .22LR.

The first shot always going somewhere other than where the subsequent shots went was disappointing, but hardly a surprise. This is called “4+1 syndrome” and is widely documented. It occurs with semiautomatic pistols (and to a lesser degree with semiautomatic rifles) when the first hand-chambered round puts the parts in a very slightly different firing alignment, or “battery,” than what they go into during firing when the mechanism cycles automatically and auto-loads each subsequent cartridge. Interestingly, the standard Beretta 92 in 9mm does not seem to be particularly prone to this, certainly not to the degree I saw in the test sample of Beretta’s .22 conversion unit.

Does this make it useless? Not at all. Whether you’re shooting bull’s-eye, IDPA, or IPSC, you go to the firing line cold each time and then load for the string of fire. Thus, competition with a gun that suffers from 4+1 syndrome can be a problem. Remember, though, that Beretta does not market this accessory as a match gun, they market it as a practice gun. Since practice is less formal, it should be no problem to load the gun with one round extra (.22 ammo is cheap, after all) and fire the first shot into the backstop, then simply keep the magazine topped off. By running the range “hot,” every subsequent practice shot can be fired with a round automatically cycled into the firing chamber by the gun’s mechanism, allowing the shooter to take advantage of what is obviously an otherwise “match-grade” level of inherent accuracy in this unit.