Pistol for the Wife

Okie, RAE, please please please don't tell those stories to my husband. I'm lobbying for a Glock 36 for Christmas! :)

Runner, somewhere around here there was a thread on how to teach someone to rack a slide. Might be worth looking for it: the consensus was teach her to push with her gun hand while holding (not necessarily pulling) with her slide hand. And make sure that she uses a jerking motion rather than trying to slide the slide. Might help. FWIW, I had a hard time racking a slide until someone taught me how. Now it's easy. It is not an intuitive motion!

Coz, not all women are going to carry in a purse. Those women who want to carry a weapon in a purse usually will buy a purse designed for it, with a separate compartment for the gun and perhaps some velcro to hold the gun in place.

pax
 
runner, have you looked at the "personal" sized SIGs?? we got the wife a p232, she's got small hands and this was perfect for her. good luck and shoot well.


Adept
 
My wife simply loves her Sig Sauer P239 in 9mm. It is compact, reliable and racking the slide is smooth as butter. She shot a perfect 100 at her CCW course with it. Shane
 
Pax,

I, of course, was thinking of my bride...high maintenance, had to buy two guns (darn, guess I'll have to buy a ankle holster for the S&W airweight) before figuring out she likes the Ruger p95.
Can't load her clip w/out the loader helper....but once she's locked and loaded...Look out!

Having just "trained" my bride and son to shoot, I shudder to think of them with a pistol that has "no" real safety.

I think glocks are very well made weapons, I just have this safety problem with em...though I mentioned to Ms. Santa Claus how cool a 33 or a 36 would look under the tree this year...I mean, I don't wear lipstick.....and heck, I don't carry a purse, now that you mention it....

:D
 
Your wife is very well armed with a quality snub nosed .38, they are reliable, relatively powerful and safer than semiautos in hwat may be semitrained hands.

7th
 
Hey!
I haven't heard any plugs for the Kel-tec p32 yet. It's a fantastic little pistol. Although, with a .32 caliber, I think you should think about what it's being used for - especially when weighing it agains the 9mm or .40 (i.e. do I live in South Central L.A., do I carry a lot of cash, etc). I have the Kel-tec and am getting ready to purchase the Glock 26 or 27 (haven't decided yet).

any way you slice it, something is better than nothing, this is what is so nice about the Kel Tec. You really almost forget that it's even there, and it's so unobtrusive, that carring it is no big deal.

cheers!
t-man
 
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