Posted by NCWayne on December 14, 2012 at 17:50:59 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Self Protection posted by rustacres sd on December 14, 2012 at 13:44:24:
While many make recommendations for 'personal protection for the ladies, none think to take certain other factors into account. In my case I bought my wife an LC9 Ruger with the factory installed Crimson Trace laser. The way it'd designed the laser activates when you grip the gun, and it's a DA only, so it's basically safety off, point, pull the trigger, and you'll hit close enough to where the red dot is to get your target. Loaded with hollow points, and having 7 shots it's going to stop anyone that isn't on a drug induced rage.
Now for the problem, my wife has carpal tunnel from years working on a computer at the bank. Given that the LC9 has an extreemly stiff recoil spring, and, it takes both hands to both rack the slide as well as release it. To release you have to pull back, just like you were chamering a round, to make the slide stop release on it's own. This is necessary any time it catches, even when it holds open on it's own when a clip empties and a fresh clip in inserted. This proceedure is instead of using a thumb to do it like on most I've ever fired. As far as things go for my wife, she didn't have the strenght to do it. So, I let her shoot my old Colt 380 Government. She fell in love with it and wanted me to 'give' it to her....not going to happen...LOL.
Ok, she loved the Colt but I convinced her to get a .22 so she could practice with it alot cheaper than she could with any of my other pistols. Next gun show we found a Walther P22 for a low price so we got it for her. It's a single or double action first shot and offers ten shots from a full clip. Very easy pistol to work and shoot. Even my 9 year old daughter had no problem with it the other day when we let her shoot it for the first time. Wife now loves it too and after putting every shot in a decent sized pattern at 20 feet I moved her back to 50 feet. There she could put all ten in a circle less than 5 inchs in diameter. Nice thing is that she's just a natural as she had only shot a handgun a handfull of times in her life until I really got her interested in them.
Forward a few more weeks and at the last show we ran into a guy who had a Colt Government that is the twin to mine. We had passed on one the same guy had at a show two weeks earlier, but this time he was priced about $75 lower and the wife talked him down another $25. Needles to say with what he was asking vs what they are selling for on Armslist, Gunbroker, etc, I jumped on it with both feet. For anyone not familiar with the Colt Government model, it's a single action only first shot, carries 7 rounds, and the action on it is light enough for someone, like my wife, with severe carpal tunnel to work, down to being able to work the slide release with the thumb without alot of unecessary effort, or having to use both hands, like is necessary, by design, with the LC9.
For home defense nothing beats a shotgun, regardless of guage. At the close ranges involved inside a house the intruder is going to be just as dead from a shot (be it shot, slug, or buckshot) from a 410 as they are from a twelve guage. To that end I just bought my daugher her first gun. It's a single shot, break action, Rossi youth model with a interchangable .22 and 410 barrel. Good for her to shoot with the .22, and good for my wife to keep by the bed with the 410 barrel when I'm away from home.
On top of that we have both a Chihuahua and a Black lab that stay in the house for early warning....and the wife has decided she want's to look into getting a crossbow to learn to shoot too........
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