Really? So ALL women are gun nuts like us,intimately familliar with every critical aspect of this very important decision (DA trigger reach,proper grip,bore axis height,etc.)? No doubt *some are*,but I haven`t met too many and if she were you wouldn`t be asking the question.
Left to her own devices my wife,who is at best an occasional shooter couldn`t tell a Raven Arms .25 from a Rohrbaugh R9 if her life depended on it. She picked out guns she was "interested" in based largely on how they *looked* rather than how they`d work for her. She needed some technical guidance,some education on various aspects,some range time with various guns. Then once we`d narrowed down the field to guns that would do the job and work for her from a technical standpoint her personal preferences came into play. She ended up with a Colt Gov`t Pocketlite .380,which wouldn`t have been either of our first (or even second) choice but it fits her perfectly and she hits really well with it. I have a number of guns I would have thought more suitable that she just can`t shoot worth a darn,mainly because she has a real problem with trigger reach and DA triggers (small,weak hands). She didn`t care for the looks of the Colt so we dressed it up with some custom grips to "make it her own". Basically I`m saying at the end of the day all that matters is that the gun selected really works for her but it would be negligent not to advise and help guide her on the technical aspects of the selection process toward that end.
