A P238 is my wife's preferred carry gun and she now enjoys our range time together, I love it when she asks "are we going to the range tomorrow?" She has settled on appendix position for carry in a Betty holster - it's very comfortable for her and she now carries everywhere it's legal, I'm very proud of herLionman13 wrote:I love my M&P shield 9mm, and my wife learned on it too, but after trying many she just chose a Sig Sauer p238 380. It set me back more than the Shield, but felt best in her hand. Hope you enjoy the hunt for yours.
.Everybody had great advice, just a couple of random comments - I will say that for a very small gun, the recoil is very gentle with the P238, but larger frame guns shooting larger caliber ammunition can also have manageable recoil. My wife's favorite gun to shoot is our large frame Ruger SR40 (.40 caliber.)
I have an M&P 22 pistol and from my experience 22 handguns can be picky about ammo, once in a great while the M&P won't cycle (eject the discharged casing and load an unfired round.) There are probably 22 pistols that are 100% reliable (like an old Walther), but I certainly wouldn't trust my defense to a rimfire round (my wife's cousin worked undercover as a Border Patrol agent doing drug busts in southern California a few years ago and carried a small .22 derringer as a last resort weapon.)