Never shot a P89 but I picked up a P85 for $200+ that is plenty accurate for me and while I'm no competition shooter I'm still a pretty fair shot. The wife was shooting minute of pie plate with it and I was able to shoot the quarter inch stick that was stuck thru the pie plate at 30 feet. That said the best I could do off hand rapid fire was minute of pie plate but that's more than adequate for a pistol made in 1986. The guy I bought it from used it to teach his kids to shoot and they now own P95's and I will use it while teaching my Grandsons gun safety along with their shooting lessons.