Well, 1911 guy, what about a 9mm 1911. There can’t be many guns sweeter to shoot than a 9mm 1911.
And specifically the EMP.
I used to feel the same way. Experience has changed my thinking.I don't recommend a 1911 as a carry gun for someone unfamiliar with them. My carry instructor, a former cop, felt the light triggers tend to get set off by those unfamiliar with them, under stress. He also told many that some people under stress forget to click off the safety. That said, I'm a 1911 guy.
S&W 3913 Lady Smith. I have the non-Lady Smith 3913 and love it. Sadly, S&W stopped making them but you can still find good used ones.
Those were good guns, including the 908 and the 3913. Never understood why they stopped making those guns.
Laura
try the xde. slide easier to work, single stack 9mm.So my wife found a pistol she likes. Springfield XDS 9mm with 4 inch barrel. 3.3 inch was a little hard for her to work the slide. Then Springfield, in their infinite wisdom, stopped making it. The one she handled, and the last one at a local shop, sold before we got back there. The very next day. I know my google-fu is weak, but I'm not finding any showing up for sale online, either.
With this pistol as a baseline, throw more options at me so I can have my wife check them out. She is beginning to show interest again after a few years not shooting. In fact, she sold her last pistol quite a while ago. I want her to get shooting while the interest is there. Hopefully, she'll stick with it this time.
Remembering that her dislike of the 3.3 inch was based on working the slide, what can be found similar in feel to the now discontinued 4" XDS?
I don't recommend a 1911 as a carry gun for someone unfamiliar with them.
I'll probably get a bunch of boos for a suggestion I'm going to make but here goes anyway. The Walther CCP is a very nice pistol. [...]
Walther CCs fiddly take down? Not a problem anymore. Walther has just made the pistol tool less take down.
Too many noobs just plain shoot better with a 1911 than with other pistols.
Sig P239?
P210?
Unless she is carrying it, I would get one that weighs the most and has the longest slide.
Shorter slides are harder to work (springs have to be stronger).
God, no. Trying to get wife to engage the safety when she grounds a 1911 is like dragging the proverbal horse to the water an making her drink. I had enough trouble making women point the muzzle downrange, I don't want to deal with the safety too. Glock all the way.
Your power relationship with the noobs in the club is entirely different. They do what you tell them or else they leave the club or find another instructor at least. If wife fails to deal with the safety and throws a tantrum when you repeatedly remind her, what are you going to do? Divorce? Or buy a Glock?
Smith Sheild... I doubt there would be a better choice, of course it's arguable but I've never held an auto that small yet can still be used to fight well like the shield.