s&w 442

[Jasper]

FWIW, my girlfriend HATES my 642.

i've gone as far as handloaded mousefart loads, and put on Houge monogrips (the biggest ones i could find!), and she still hated it.


she LOVES my full size 1911 though. its a comfort level thing. recoil + size/weight = tolerable. recoil + no weight / barely fits in your hand = no go for her.

 

[Mike-Mike]

My GF shoots my airlight with +p ammo. She says its "jumpy" but she can deal.

 

[Radio]

You guys just need to find LARGER women!!!!!

 

[jar]

Check out Jim and Mike's article "Buying a Fire Arm for the Woman in your life": http://neshooters.com/buying.pdf. My main takeaway from the article is picking out a gun FOR her is going to lead to a bunch of safe queens. The key is to pick out a gun WITH her.

Having her try before you buy will save you a lot of money. One of the best ways to do that is to become a green NES member and come out to a member's shoot.

 

[WaldoOneFive]

M&P 9mm Compact is what mine "took" from me after trying many different models.

She had a Glock 23 for the longest time, but after some good training she took at the Sig Academy she realized the gun as too large for her for that "natural point" with point shooting. I had my M&P9c with the Small backstrap.. she tried it and I havent seen the gun since.

I knew it was final when she brought me a FA-10 form to fill out for that gun...

 

[S&WMan]

congratulations the 442 is a nice revlover.
As others mentioned the .38 wadcutter would have the lowest recoil. After she is comfortable with that she can move up from there. .38 SWC, .38 RN, .38+P etc.

 

[STANLEY0789]

Thanks for the interesting comments to my post. I will try the wadcutter and let you know the outcome.

 

[Executive]

 

[drgrant]

That's the original post. I added the bold to show you what the intentions of the purchase was. I was arguing with another poster who said that the 442 is a bad choice for a woman. My argument was that in relevance to CC (remember, the thing that was the reason that the gun was purchased?), the 442 is a great choice. If she is a novice shooter and wants to learn to shoot, she should be shooting a .22. If she wants a good cc gun, the 442 is an excellent choice. Novice shooter or not.

For some people, frankly, in the words of that guy talking to mccarthy about the barrel shroud.... "No, It's not".

Lightweight J-frame snubs have a considerable learning curve, for starters. In some people's hands, they don't even point naturally, which takes some un-natural, trained
correction. The sharp recoil will also end up inducing or prolonging a flinch in a lot of novices.

Am I saying they're bad guns? No. Some people will like them, and some novices will even like them, but the odds are sharply against that. They're excellent guns, for people who know what they're getting into. Newbies generally don't. This isn't a gender thing, either.

I agree with Jar. Someone needs to pick their own CCW. When you pick it for them, usually it ends up unused. People lose interest in things they don't like to shoot. No interest=no practice, and no practice=no competency or confidence in the gun chosen. It may even lead to them not carrying it, which kinda defeats the purpose.

-Mike

 

[PATRON]

I just love this forum.