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- Sun Dec 09, 2012 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Looking for gun suggestions from women
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Re: Looking for gun suggestions from women
Lots of great ideas. Thanks for all the suggestions.
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Looking for gun suggestions from women
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Looking for gun suggestions from women
You guys can pipe in if you want to, but I'm really looking for a woman's perspective. I planned on buying my wife a Bersa Thunder 380 for Christmas. She shot one when we took Crossfire's pistol training class and seemed to like it a lot. She didn't have trouble racking the slide and said the felt recoil was much less than other 380s she had shot.
I even posted a WTB ad and negotiated a price for one from one of the forum members. She wanted to go to the range "just to be sure", so we went today. Now she says she's not sure.
She telecommutes, so she's home alone all day. She doesn't like my guns at all (Sig P226 in 9mm and Sig P239 in 357 Sig), but she'd like to have something she's comfortable with in case someone tries to break in while she's home alone.
She shot the Sig P238 and didn't like it. She shot the Ruger 380 LCP and didn't like it. (Felt recoil was too much for her with both guns.) She shot several guns at Crossfire's class, and the only one she really liked was the Bersa.
Today we shot with my boss. She brought her .38 special (an older revolver, fairly small), so I had my wife try that. She fired three rounds and said she didn't like it at all. (I thought it was a great little gun, but smaller than what I would like.)
Her hands are fairly small (she's 5' tall and wears size 6 shoes - used to be size 4), so big pistols and thick grips (double stack) are out.
I'm not sure where to go from here. Do I need to try 9mm? I don't think she'd like the recoil of anything larger. What's some guns that might interest her? Is there somewhere we can go that caters to women (not just says they do) where she can get some advice? (We live in the Dallas area.)
I even posted a WTB ad and negotiated a price for one from one of the forum members. She wanted to go to the range "just to be sure", so we went today. Now she says she's not sure.
She telecommutes, so she's home alone all day. She doesn't like my guns at all (Sig P226 in 9mm and Sig P239 in 357 Sig), but she'd like to have something she's comfortable with in case someone tries to break in while she's home alone.
She shot the Sig P238 and didn't like it. She shot the Ruger 380 LCP and didn't like it. (Felt recoil was too much for her with both guns.) She shot several guns at Crossfire's class, and the only one she really liked was the Bersa.
Today we shot with my boss. She brought her .38 special (an older revolver, fairly small), so I had my wife try that. She fired three rounds and said she didn't like it at all. (I thought it was a great little gun, but smaller than what I would like.)
Her hands are fairly small (she's 5' tall and wears size 6 shoes - used to be size 4), so big pistols and thick grips (double stack) are out.
I'm not sure where to go from here. Do I need to try 9mm? I don't think she'd like the recoil of anything larger. What's some guns that might interest her? Is there somewhere we can go that caters to women (not just says they do) where she can get some advice? (We live in the Dallas area.)