Vodoun da Vinci
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My Wife and I are older (50's) shooters. We have been inactive in shooting sports for some years but shot regularly 25 - 30 years ago. She's a Farmers Daughter raised around guns and shooting. She and I own several guns - some revolvers and some autos. Since Illinois is to allow concealed carry soon we have both decided to renew our basic love of shooting sports and have been shooting our collection regularly and relearning our skills.
I just purchased a Glock 26 9mm as this will likely be my carry choice and so I'm gonna get as familiar with it as I can. Finding a "comfort" gun for Kelly has proven a bit more difficult. She owns a Colt officers ACP and a Colt 1903 Model M and shoots them well *but* she has a problem dealing with safeties, mag releases, slide locks, racking the slide, changing mags, etc. Auto loaders are confusing and difficult for her no matter how much we train...she is competent but not comfortable.
Enter her late fathers S&W 19 with 4" barrel and .38 Special hand loads. She hits like a maniac instinctively with it double action and handles it like a pro. She is comfortable *and* competent. Her preferences and skills lean toward revolvers. She is her fathers daughter no doubt. Her mother (now 80ish) is the same way - easily overwhelmed with Auto's and instinctively deadly and competent with a revolver.
She handled and shot a Colt Detective Special (another of her late fathers revolvers that now resides next to her mothers bed...) this weekend and really impressed me. She loved the gun and wants one "just like it". So, what are you guys impressions of the various .38 special revolvers in 2" barrel lengths?
She can have anything she wants - I'll buy or trade for it but I need to offer choices. Colts, Smiths, Charter Arms? There's a lot of choices some good, others less so.
I love and shoot revolvers *but* I'm 6'3" and favor full house .357, .44, .45 revolvers and she's 5' tall and 120. She cannot manage full house .357 or even .38 +P gets her flinching as she has a little arthritis in the fingers.
I see that Charter Arms makes some revolvers that seem to match the profile of the Colt Detective she lusts for...then again, she can have a Colt Detective if I can round one up for her. We have several revolvers in the house and she likes S&W, Dan Wesson, Ruger, Colt, etc. so long as they are smaller frame sized and the grips are not blocky or chunky.
Suggestions please and *Thank You* in advance for any help you might offer.
VooDoo
I just purchased a Glock 26 9mm as this will likely be my carry choice and so I'm gonna get as familiar with it as I can. Finding a "comfort" gun for Kelly has proven a bit more difficult. She owns a Colt officers ACP and a Colt 1903 Model M and shoots them well *but* she has a problem dealing with safeties, mag releases, slide locks, racking the slide, changing mags, etc. Auto loaders are confusing and difficult for her no matter how much we train...she is competent but not comfortable.
Enter her late fathers S&W 19 with 4" barrel and .38 Special hand loads. She hits like a maniac instinctively with it double action and handles it like a pro. She is comfortable *and* competent. Her preferences and skills lean toward revolvers. She is her fathers daughter no doubt. Her mother (now 80ish) is the same way - easily overwhelmed with Auto's and instinctively deadly and competent with a revolver.
She handled and shot a Colt Detective Special (another of her late fathers revolvers that now resides next to her mothers bed...) this weekend and really impressed me. She loved the gun and wants one "just like it". So, what are you guys impressions of the various .38 special revolvers in 2" barrel lengths?
She can have anything she wants - I'll buy or trade for it but I need to offer choices. Colts, Smiths, Charter Arms? There's a lot of choices some good, others less so.
I love and shoot revolvers *but* I'm 6'3" and favor full house .357, .44, .45 revolvers and she's 5' tall and 120. She cannot manage full house .357 or even .38 +P gets her flinching as she has a little arthritis in the fingers.
I see that Charter Arms makes some revolvers that seem to match the profile of the Colt Detective she lusts for...then again, she can have a Colt Detective if I can round one up for her. We have several revolvers in the house and she likes S&W, Dan Wesson, Ruger, Colt, etc. so long as they are smaller frame sized and the grips are not blocky or chunky.
Suggestions please and *Thank You* in advance for any help you might offer.
VooDoo