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9mm Glock or a 45 ACP 1911 is what I do my best work with. I don't like wheelguns because I can't fire them as quickly or accurately as an auto. I also have lots more practice with autos. But there are guys and gals that dress up like Wyatt Earp who can draw their old Teddy Roosevelt horse pistols and get rounds on target faster than me. The AMU competitors are surgical with their M9 pistols (another gun I don't like). I just know what works for me. Another caveat, is that when I was an instructor, striker fired pistols like the Glock were easier to train students with that had less (or no) experience with handguns VS other designs.
 
22lr. because i started shooting it 58 years ago and likely will be all that i can handle at the end. i can hit with it, again and again and again. i’m frugal and it’s cheap. it’s fun.

38sp. because it reliably feeds a single/double action snubbie revolver, which those of us of a certain age know is the best civilian personal defense handgun.

the best caliber is the one that you financially and physically enjoy practicing with the most. until handgun ammo incapacitates with near-miss shock waves or shrapnel from a proximity fuse, only reliable and consistent hits count. i’m not a soldier, big game hunter or cop so better to hit with rimfire than miss with centerfire rounds.
 
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Oh, and clearly the handgun world will be blighted until it creates an 8x20 (and, of course, a 15x25 :) )

Same as the rifle world desperately needs a 7x40 (having danced all around that proportion with .276pedersen, .280ross, .276enfield, .280nato, 270win, and .280rem--and, now, the .277furry/6.8x53) o_O
 
I'll be able to shoot 32 H&R magnum out of my wife's old Undercoverette long after I'm done with 38's and 9mm. It will shoot 32 S&W long just fine, too. The magnums have barely more recoil, though.

All absurdity aside, a revolver chambered in 32 H&R is a very good SD handgun for someone who doesn't shoot much or handle recoil well. Its operation is intuitive. If you've shot it a few times, you know how. The recoil is the next step up from a 22, and it's not that big a step.

IMHO, 38 special and 9mm semiautos are much worse choices for recoil-sensitive people.

My wife wanted a 32 revolver with a good trigger. The pink color was a coincidence. No one else was bidding on that one and I figured she wouldn't mind. (She doesn't.)

The 6.5" Single Six is a tack driver. It would be very good for small game or varmints.

32 H&R magnum "should" be more popular than it is, also MHO.

Charter Arms 32 Magnum

Charter Arms 32 Magnum


Ruger Single Six 32 H&R magnum

Ruger Single Six 32 H&R magnum

 
All these straight wall cartridges...

Step up to a bottle neck round like 357/44 Bain & Davis, or 30 Herrett, 357 Herrett, 30-30, 222, 223, 221 FB, or 22-250. Thats where the POWER is RRRR (in my best Tim Taylor grunt)
 
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