TexasCHLforum.com

LDB415 wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 2:00 pm Better to hit with a fly swatter than miss with a cannon.

Not if what your hitting is a 6'2" mid twenty's man, bent on your destruction.

SickSilverado wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 12:21 am

srothstein wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 11:13 pm If she can control the 380 she has, could a slide racking tool help? Here is one example:

The 380 she has comes with barely visible sights and I don't think they're able to be changed.

I have a Ruger LCP and the sights are horrible. The only times I have ever carried it was as a back up gun. I have stigmatism?, I think that is what they call it. I require lenses with three different prescriptions on the same lenses. The LCP sights are just terrible for me. I thought about putting a drop or three of florescent orange on the front sight but never did it. I think sometimes the smaller handguns can be harder to rack due to surface area of the slide. Years ago when my daughter was 21, I bought her an LCP. She hated trying to rack that thing. I then bought her a Glock 26 and made sure she racked it by holding the slide firmly and pushing the receiver forward. She liked it a lot better and IMHO the 9 mm G26 makes for a slightly better self defense platform. Once I got her using the hold the slide and push the receiver forward technique, she even got better with the LCP. She has MS by the way and one of the issues is extreme swelling and pain in her hands. I would never recommend any 22 caliber or smaller round for self defense. The BG may die but it could take a couple hours. Years ago I had a buddy who owned a Walther PPK in 380. If I remember right, it had slightly better sights and back then his seemed very dependable. It was also easy to rack the slide. I also have a KAHR P380 and it is and always has been a piece of junk. Jams, stove pipes and again, crappy sights and hard to rack slide. It makes for a better rock than a hand gun for self defense. I have a KAHR PM9 that has more than a thousand rounds through it. Dependable, great sights in a small handgun and again, not hard to rack slide. Bought it maybe 10 years ago. It was soon after it came out, when ever that was. Just some thoughts I had.