Saddlebag Preacher
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My wife just turned 56 and uses a walker and has some arthritis in her hands. I've carried and shot firearms all my life both professionally and for enjoyment like hunting or competition. For the last couple of months I have been training her to shoot so she can get her CCDW permit, which she passed. I bought her a Taurus TCP (pink of course) for Valentines day a couple of years ago to keep beside her in her recliner when I'm gone. She can shoot it fine for living room distance, but of course there are no sights to speak of, I just taught her to point and shoot with it. I have to load it for her also because the slide is small and a little stiff.
I trained her for her permit on my S&W .22 compact. Even with her arthritis she can break it down, clean it, reassemble it and reload the mags. She is really pretty good with it and she wants to shoot with me now. She qualified with it.
Now that I want her to have a handgun with her as often as possible, I want her to have something she can articulate better than the Taurus when out of the house. My Shield's recoil hurts her hands, so 9mm is out, but it's funny, she can shoot the Taurus .380, just not pull the slide back to load very well or clear a jam.
I really don't want her use a .22 or .22 magnum unless that is all my options, so I'm looking at the Glock 42. If you have one, is the slide fairly easy to manipulate? No gun stores around here has one and I'd have to order one, so it's almost a buy before I try situation. I have a glock 23 that she can pull the trigger on easily, but she struggles a with manipulating the slide, and of course the .40 is too painful. Any info will help, Thanks.
I trained her for her permit on my S&W .22 compact. Even with her arthritis she can break it down, clean it, reassemble it and reload the mags. She is really pretty good with it and she wants to shoot with me now. She qualified with it.
Now that I want her to have a handgun with her as often as possible, I want her to have something she can articulate better than the Taurus when out of the house. My Shield's recoil hurts her hands, so 9mm is out, but it's funny, she can shoot the Taurus .380, just not pull the slide back to load very well or clear a jam.
I really don't want her use a .22 or .22 magnum unless that is all my options, so I'm looking at the Glock 42. If you have one, is the slide fairly easy to manipulate? No gun stores around here has one and I'd have to order one, so it's almost a buy before I try situation. I have a glock 23 that she can pull the trigger on easily, but she struggles a with manipulating the slide, and of course the .40 is too painful. Any info will help, Thanks.