My wife has been shopping for a pistol and is having difficulty finding one that she likes that is comfortable and fits her well. It would be mainly used for defense, both at home and possibly as a concealed carry gun.
She has two things that are not helping matters. First, she has small hands, with shorter fingers. On many handguns, she can't reach the trigger without twisting the gun in her hands. The second issue is that she has fibromyalgia, with makes her more sensitive to recoil, and she also has a tough time racking the slide on many semi-autos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia
Currently she has 3 handguns, a Beretta 950 Jetfire and Colt 1908 Vest Pocket, both in .25 ACP, and she's got a Taurus 85 revolver in .38 Special. She likes them all but has the most difficulty with the Taurus, mainly because of the long double-action trigger pull. Probably the one that fits her best is the Colt, but I'm not even sure how safe they are to carry with a round in the chamber?
We've found that larger semi-autos, especially blow back types (vs locked breech), have very stiff recoil springs. She shoots them well but needs help to chamber the first round. On larger frame double action revolvers, she can't reach the trigger at all.
So we might be looking for something that doesn't exist. Does anyone know of a pistol that has an easy-to-reach trigger, that is light (preferably single action), and if it's a semi-auto, has a soft recoil spring that is easy to manipulate?
So far the closest thing we've found was the Kahr PM9, it fit her had almost perfectly, but she still couldn't work the slide.
Another possibility might be to somehow modify her current .38 revolver to make the trigger easier to reach. Not sure how one might do that? Different grips?
Worse case scenario, she sticks with a .25 ACP that she is comfortable with, but we'd like to go with something that shoots are larger caliber bullet if we can find one. Even a .32 would be a step up, .380 ACP or 9mm Luger would be great, as would .38 special or even .32 H&R
Any info and / or advice you guys could provide would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
She has two things that are not helping matters. First, she has small hands, with shorter fingers. On many handguns, she can't reach the trigger without twisting the gun in her hands. The second issue is that she has fibromyalgia, with makes her more sensitive to recoil, and she also has a tough time racking the slide on many semi-autos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia
Currently she has 3 handguns, a Beretta 950 Jetfire and Colt 1908 Vest Pocket, both in .25 ACP, and she's got a Taurus 85 revolver in .38 Special. She likes them all but has the most difficulty with the Taurus, mainly because of the long double-action trigger pull. Probably the one that fits her best is the Colt, but I'm not even sure how safe they are to carry with a round in the chamber?
We've found that larger semi-autos, especially blow back types (vs locked breech), have very stiff recoil springs. She shoots them well but needs help to chamber the first round. On larger frame double action revolvers, she can't reach the trigger at all.
So we might be looking for something that doesn't exist. Does anyone know of a pistol that has an easy-to-reach trigger, that is light (preferably single action), and if it's a semi-auto, has a soft recoil spring that is easy to manipulate?
So far the closest thing we've found was the Kahr PM9, it fit her had almost perfectly, but she still couldn't work the slide.
Another possibility might be to somehow modify her current .38 revolver to make the trigger easier to reach. Not sure how one might do that? Different grips?
Worse case scenario, she sticks with a .25 ACP that she is comfortable with, but we'd like to go with something that shoots are larger caliber bullet if we can find one. Even a .32 would be a step up, .380 ACP or 9mm Luger would be great, as would .38 special or even .32 H&R
Any info and / or advice you guys could provide would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!