Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting 9mm or 40 for the wife

[southpaw]

Let her pick it. The 40 is loud loud loud. and ammo $ but many law agencies use it . The 9 its an easy shooter. My take on an in house defense mechanism would be a 44 spec revolver stainless 3inch . Why, scatter gun with buckshot won,t go thru walls, will cover a rather large area, you don,t have to aim so carefully if you wake up excited , it,s dark, the degenerate on the recieving end oh well. Hit him again and again. I was afraid for my life. I think Hi standard makes one as others. ,

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

I've waded thru several other similar threads in the recent past - and it usually helps to know if the gun for the gal under discussion are for carry, or purely home defense. Since other guns already in existence were mentioned and available for home defense, it would at least appear that a carry piece is what's discussed - and if so, the relative size and strength of the gal remains the single most logical pivotal point on what might be best choice - and that pretty well leaves out 1911's and Mossberg 500's!



The earlier discussion of disadvantages of 9mm and ball ammo is pretty moot - as AKaiser points out, limitations of the military don't apply to us civilians - and if ANY here doubt the "fright ability" of looking down the barrel of my 9mm Makarov from the nasty end - or doubt the "stopability" it can produce with the Hornaday HP's I have it loaded with, why not swing on by, and we can put both to the test! :-laf



Yeah - I have a Browning . 32, and several nice versions of . 22's - as well as the 1911 - but for all around use and features, the Makarov works well for me in a carry situation - but that's just me, and probably NOT what most ladies would want in their purse.



Point is, fit the GUN to the person - AND to the intended purpose!



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[jgillott]

I'm making this reply for my wife who is sitting beside me reading this thread. She has become an avid shooter and is an excellent shot... . admiditadely, much better than I could ever be. In my opinion, what has made her so good is that she shoots all the time. Lately, it has been at least once a week and probably goes through 250-300 rounds every time out.



Anyway, what she wanted me to tell you is that she prefers a little heavier handgun, regardless of what the caliber is, over a smaller sub-compact or pocket size pistol. With her smaller hands, a unit with some mass to it is a little easier to control, especially on the second or third round in a group. She absolutely hates our Beretta 21A pocket 22's because they are so small, that the recoil is unpredictable in her hand. She was shooting our Smith-Wesson 457 45 ACP today, and she can place 2-3 round groops very consistantly. Her next purchase, which she is going to order in the next couple of weeks, is likely going to be Smith 908S 9mm. It will be her next carry gun.



She doesn't care for the idea of a revolver as an daily carry gun. She much preferrs an auto with a positive safety of some type. Since whatever she carries is likely to spend time in her purse, she doesn't want to run the unlikely rist of someting snagging the trigger.