Pure accuracy incarnate!
Beretta 76. A .22lr target pistol that shot like a dream right out of the box. I bought it new in the '80s. I was in my early '20s at the time, and shot all the time on my dad's property. All kinds of guns, all kinds of calibers and loads. As much as I could afford...and then some more just for good measure.
No gun I've ever shot was more accurate right out of the box than that particular gun was. It was slick, sweet and
pure accuracy incarnate!
Back then, I was on a 1911 kick, so traded it off in my search back then for the "perfect 1911" (my university period funds were limited, so "gun money" had to be "recycled"). Damn all those gun magazine articles touting 1911s! They cost me one sweet pistol! (j/k)
Those 1911 supremacy touts
and the scar I got on the palm of my hand from the very square, very sharply cornered front sight of the gun while trying to separate the slide from the frame for cleaning.
Back then I didn't know about the simple trick shown in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG25sgWraLM
Using his method would turn the gun's only weakness -- the difficulty of pulling the slide loose from the frame -- into no weakness at all. Shame it didn't occur to me to try it at the time. Sharing this to keep anyone else from the same nasty flesh ripping my palm took from the gun's front sight back then.
A great gun. Super accurate. Wish I had it today. It was sweet to shoot!