Tallball
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I am 6'6" and my wife is 6'4". Our 6'5" son has been best friends with a neighborhood boy for about eight years now (they are seniors this year). His buddy is 5'6" or so. He is a nice kid and eventually we got friendly with his parents. The dad is 5'4" and the mom is barely 5'. We have become good friends. People get a good chuckle when they see us in restaurants and so forth, due to the extreme height disparity.
The father, Dan, heard that I like to go to the range to shoot handguns. He asked if he could come with me sometime, and so of course I brought him soon afterwards. He hadn't shot a firearm since he was in ROTC and enjoyed it very much. I have all kinds of small, light-recoiling handguns for my daughter to shoot, so I was able to break him in gently. His hands are small but not weak, and it turned out that his very favorite one to shoot is my Rossi 720 in 44 special. He ended up going with me about four times.
Recently he and his wife had a conversation and decided to buy a handgun to keep at the house. He already knew that he very much preferred revolvers to semi-autos, and asked if he could come over to examine some different revolvers. Luckily for him I have a bunch of them, so he got to hold just about anything that might have interested him. What he wanted was something that fit his hands well, was in an effective caliber for SD, long enough barrel to have fun at the range with, short enough barrel that it would easily fit in his glove compartment when they are on family road trips, and shoots ammo that is fairly easy to find and not too expensive.
After holding a dozen or more at my house he had a pretty good idea of what he was looking for. We went to a gun show yesterday and he looked at every single vendor. I was just along to buy some ammo. Dan is a very smart and decisive guy, so he didn't need me to help him make any decisions. Eventually he found something that he felt was perfect. There were several identical ones to choose from, so of course he bought the lowest-priced one.
At this point I thought it might be fun for the readers to figure out what they would have recommended, and take a guess at what he ended up buying.
He saw a used RIA with a 4" barrel and a nice trigger for $189. When he went back to look at it again it was already sold. He saw a 4" Taurus Model 65 for a good price, but he felt that the grip was just a little too large, and figured that the 4" barrel might not fit in his glove compartment. There was a very nice used S&W Model 10-6 with a super smooth trigger. The lady was asking $500 for it, and immediately offered it for $450 when he was examining it. I figured he could have gotten her down to $400 pretty easily, but he didn't want a 4", which is what it had.
In the end he decided on the one that I figured all along would suit his requirements best. He got a 3" Ruger SP101 in 357 magnum. He paid $512 for it. I guess that is an okay price. He didn't ask me to check that model out on GB or anything, and I had decided that I would give him plenty of room to make his own decision. I bought him a hundred rounds of 38 special target ammo as a "welcome to handgunning" gift. He is hoping that we can go to the shooting range next weekend so that he can try it out.
So what do y'all think? Was that a good choice for him?
The father, Dan, heard that I like to go to the range to shoot handguns. He asked if he could come with me sometime, and so of course I brought him soon afterwards. He hadn't shot a firearm since he was in ROTC and enjoyed it very much. I have all kinds of small, light-recoiling handguns for my daughter to shoot, so I was able to break him in gently. His hands are small but not weak, and it turned out that his very favorite one to shoot is my Rossi 720 in 44 special. He ended up going with me about four times.
Recently he and his wife had a conversation and decided to buy a handgun to keep at the house. He already knew that he very much preferred revolvers to semi-autos, and asked if he could come over to examine some different revolvers. Luckily for him I have a bunch of them, so he got to hold just about anything that might have interested him. What he wanted was something that fit his hands well, was in an effective caliber for SD, long enough barrel to have fun at the range with, short enough barrel that it would easily fit in his glove compartment when they are on family road trips, and shoots ammo that is fairly easy to find and not too expensive.
After holding a dozen or more at my house he had a pretty good idea of what he was looking for. We went to a gun show yesterday and he looked at every single vendor. I was just along to buy some ammo. Dan is a very smart and decisive guy, so he didn't need me to help him make any decisions. Eventually he found something that he felt was perfect. There were several identical ones to choose from, so of course he bought the lowest-priced one.
At this point I thought it might be fun for the readers to figure out what they would have recommended, and take a guess at what he ended up buying.
He saw a used RIA with a 4" barrel and a nice trigger for $189. When he went back to look at it again it was already sold. He saw a 4" Taurus Model 65 for a good price, but he felt that the grip was just a little too large, and figured that the 4" barrel might not fit in his glove compartment. There was a very nice used S&W Model 10-6 with a super smooth trigger. The lady was asking $500 for it, and immediately offered it for $450 when he was examining it. I figured he could have gotten her down to $400 pretty easily, but he didn't want a 4", which is what it had.
In the end he decided on the one that I figured all along would suit his requirements best. He got a 3" Ruger SP101 in 357 magnum. He paid $512 for it. I guess that is an okay price. He didn't ask me to check that model out on GB or anything, and I had decided that I would give him plenty of room to make his own decision. I bought him a hundred rounds of 38 special target ammo as a "welcome to handgunning" gift. He is hoping that we can go to the shooting range next weekend so that he can try it out.
So what do y'all think? Was that a good choice for him?
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