Cooper's "Lupara" for Home Defense

[telomerase]

I know some female trap shooters... I also know a couple of women who quit shooting forever because they were "introduced" to light 12 gauges and were told to "hold the gun loosely". So I'm suspicious of any scheme to arm nondedicated personnel with heavy-kicking guns. There are lots of carbines that are shorter, kick less, and have a lot more firepower than a coach gun. While simplicity is good, a lever-action pistol-caliber carbine with an exposed hammer is pretty simple.

Of course if they DEMAND a coach gun, then expand the gun safe

I'd like to make one suggestion for whatever gun you get her: have the gun fitted to her by cutting the stock to her dimensions, and put on a decent modern-technology recoil pad!

+1 to Preacherman (as usual).

 

[AStone]

..."introduced" to light 12 gauges and were told to "hold the gun loosely".

I have two things to say about that.

1) They were instructed incorrectly, and that can be corrected.

2) My coach gun will be 20 ga. It'll be plenty.

 

[Red Tornado]

My coach gun will be 20 ga. It'll be plenty.

Of course it'll be plenty, but 12 ga. is even sexier.

 

[AStone]

I agree about 12 ga, RT, but for me, it's come to a trade off: recoil v power.

I want enough power to do what I want/need without so much recoil as to make it unpleasant/not fun to shoot which will discourage practice and training. That's particularly important in a lighter shotgun like a coach gun, and particularly if it's going to be used for SD.

For me, that spells 20 ga.

I just sold a beautiful 870P in 12 ga because even with RR rnds,
the recoil was stout enough for me - a smaller person - to discourage lots of shooting (thus, training).

YMMV, of course.