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How is she racking the slide? Once I showed my wife a better way to do it, she can do it with just about any gun, where she could barely do it her way.

Assuming a right-handed shooter, here's how I do it: Hold gun in right hand, about 6 inches from the chest. Put the left hand over the slide, with the heel of your left hand on the left side of the slide, and as many fingertips as you can get on the right side of the slide, preferably just forward of the rear sight where the inside web of your hand is touching the sight. As much as you pull towards your chest with your left, you should be thrusting the pistol straight out with your right hand. When you get the slide back, let it go with such a snap that your left hand continues back and hits you in the upper chest (careful, ladies!).

If she's pinching the slide at the rear between the pointer finger and thumb and "slingshotting", it will be much harder!