David W. Harrison
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Some good advice here, though I don't agree with it all. To me a revolver is just plain easier to handle and keep maintained. Semi autos have too much to go wrong in them for a novice to have to deal with in an already stressful situation. And 9mm in the RIGHT hands may be a good round, but in an untrained hand of a novice....not so much. Too many people have walked thru a 9mm just to take the gun away and kill the weilder of it.
DEFINATELY GET TRAINING!! Training trumps gear every time. It sucks to have something you KNOW can save your life but you don't know how to use it. It is money WELL spent.
My personal .357 is a Taurus tracker I bought new for 300$ 2 years ago. 7 rounds and it came factory ported. Being ported means it barely kicks at all, it handles full .357 loads like they were light .38, hardly kicks at all. And I can put all 7 into a nice handsized group at 35 yards. Couple of speeloaders so you can reload it faster and all is good. Too bad these guns are like 450-500$ now. I wish I had 3 more of them.
My wife is 5-4 ish and ...overweight. She is a school teacher of 28 years now. She has MAYBE 2000 rounds of shooting experience now. Her carry pistol (We both have our carry permits) is the Sig Sauer 1911 c3 model. It shoots the .45 round and she handles it beautifully. She loves the weapon and she is very good with it. SO I recommend you go to a range that lets you rent guns, some of these ranges have ladies night where you buy the ammo and the rental is free. Try out SEVERAL and go with what feels good to you!
Even a well placed .22 can stop a person. But the lighter the round the better you will have to be to make it effective.
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DEFINATELY GET TRAINING!! Training trumps gear every time. It sucks to have something you KNOW can save your life but you don't know how to use it. It is money WELL spent.
My personal .357 is a Taurus tracker I bought new for 300$ 2 years ago. 7 rounds and it came factory ported. Being ported means it barely kicks at all, it handles full .357 loads like they were light .38, hardly kicks at all. And I can put all 7 into a nice handsized group at 35 yards. Couple of speeloaders so you can reload it faster and all is good. Too bad these guns are like 450-500$ now. I wish I had 3 more of them.
My wife is 5-4 ish and ...overweight. She is a school teacher of 28 years now. She has MAYBE 2000 rounds of shooting experience now. Her carry pistol (We both have our carry permits) is the Sig Sauer 1911 c3 model. It shoots the .45 round and she handles it beautifully. She loves the weapon and she is very good with it. SO I recommend you go to a range that lets you rent guns, some of these ranges have ladies night where you buy the ammo and the rental is free. Try out SEVERAL and go with what feels good to you!
Even a well placed .22 can stop a person. But the lighter the round the better you will have to be to make it effective.
Practice
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