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txhighlander - thanks for the info and welcome aboard.

The main reason I was trying to get her shooting before the NRA class was that the NRA instructor said it would be probably good if she brought a gun with her for the class. He did say that he would have 2-3 guns that he would bring to the class for her to shoot. So maybe we will just take this route and let her shoot whatever he brings.

I appreciate all the good info from you all and TexasGal and JMP Jr thanks for the offers. I live south of Austin so pretty far from Dallas. Pretty close to Red's on 290. As a matter of fact took my last renewal there. This NRA instructor is also a CHL instructor and he only lives a couple miles from me so my next renewal in Oct. will be real convenient for me. My wife will take her CHL class from him also if she decides she can shoot. Hope she can because right know she is pretty hot about getting her CHL.

Thanks for the good info fellows. I wondered about the 642 even with light loads. No 22 and the 45's are Glocks. I do have a G19 that is a nib late model gen3. I know there have been problems with some of them. I will have to see if it works and if it does, maybe that will be a better option. Thanks again.

My wife is getting real serious about getting her CHL and I would like to take her out and shoot a little bit with my 642. It has been years (like 40 or so) since she last shot a gun and at that it was a rifle when her daddy was in the Border Patrol. I have lined up an NRA instructor to teach her gun safety and such but she would like to go out first and take a couple shoots to just get the feel of shooting. I need a recommendation on a really weak (as in recoil) 38sp load for her.

Also, as an aside, she wears glasses and I was wondering about those eye protection glasses you can buy at Lowe's that they sell when using a chain saw or whatever. This would be something that she could wear over her regular eye glasses that she need to wear to see.

By the was I say 642 because my .40's and .45's would probably be to much initially for her.

Thanks