I come from an extended Sig family. Everyone in my family owns and loves Sigs. Now it is time to buy my wife a Sig that she intends to carry in some type of gun purse. She has shot and can handle the recoil of my 229 .40. I want to buy her something smaller like one of the 239s, but I am concerned with the recoil from a smaller gun. Unfortunatly I have not had the pleasure of shooting the 239 in any calibre and I would like to know what type of recoil to expect. I have also read in a gun magazine article that the 9mm 239 has a very unpleasant DA trigger pull when compared to the .40 and .357 Sig 239s. Has anyone else had that experience or did that magazine just get an abberant gun? And although I am not a big fan of .380s, I need to make sure that the gun I get is shootable for my wife so I am also considering the 232.