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newTexan wrote: 1. Should be fun to plink with, yet still usable for home defense if that need should ever arise. If the lady of the house is going to plink with it too, then recoil needs to be pretty well-managed and not beat her up when she fires it.

2. Should be relatively easy to take apart, clean, and put back together.

3. Should be reliable.

4. At the ranges I'm going to probably be shooting (probably 100yards max), I'd like to avoid having to do/worry too much about separate optics. Decent iron sights are probably fine.