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Just handling a gun is not really sufficient. You really need to be able to shoot a variety.
Brit, true enough. But just picking them up, feeling, hefting, pointing, holding, finding and working the controls, all help to eliminate the ones that just "won't work". Your mates took to the Glocks really well.... good on them. I can't even get my hand comfortably round them, so I never was interested in HOW well they work.
Sort of like shopping for a new motorcar to replace the weary ancient dog..... kick some tyres, sit in the seats, find the controls, look round to see how well you can see.... if it's not comfortable enough, no amount of performance, features, Connely hides on the front buckets, aluminium alloy roadwheels, will make the thing "work" for ME on long journeys, dodging through the roundabouts in town, nipping round the corner in monsoon rains...... a LOT of the "playing field" can be sorted out before ever putting one round in the chamber and asking it to say BANG.
I'd also have to agree a hundred percent with the idea of starting out with a small calibre, the .22 LR being a great option. A friend of mine has two daughters, 14 and 15, they've been out shooting together a few times. He's recently got a Ruger .22/45 (the angle of the grip suits him far better than the old design.. and I find the same thing, had considered getting one, but found a Browning Buckmark on offer too cheap to believe...) and he's used that to get them acquainted with it all. They both took to it like ducks to a pond..... then they wanted to fire his Springfield XD 40... and they both love it. He says they're dead on accurate, too. Excellent shooters, the pair of them. Its particularly fun because they're both VERY feminine and girly, but LOVE outside activities, and now shooting Daddy's pistols is high on their list....... he's now considering saving his sheckels to get a Ruger Super Redhawk in /44 Magnum...... any wagers on how those girls will take to that one? I know which square I'm putting MY bet on.....
that rental wall sounds like a day's worth of fun, smoke, and noise......
Brit, true enough. But just picking them up, feeling, hefting, pointing, holding, finding and working the controls, all help to eliminate the ones that just "won't work". Your mates took to the Glocks really well.... good on them. I can't even get my hand comfortably round them, so I never was interested in HOW well they work.
Sort of like shopping for a new motorcar to replace the weary ancient dog..... kick some tyres, sit in the seats, find the controls, look round to see how well you can see.... if it's not comfortable enough, no amount of performance, features, Connely hides on the front buckets, aluminium alloy roadwheels, will make the thing "work" for ME on long journeys, dodging through the roundabouts in town, nipping round the corner in monsoon rains...... a LOT of the "playing field" can be sorted out before ever putting one round in the chamber and asking it to say BANG.
I'd also have to agree a hundred percent with the idea of starting out with a small calibre, the .22 LR being a great option. A friend of mine has two daughters, 14 and 15, they've been out shooting together a few times. He's recently got a Ruger .22/45 (the angle of the grip suits him far better than the old design.. and I find the same thing, had considered getting one, but found a Browning Buckmark on offer too cheap to believe...) and he's used that to get them acquainted with it all. They both took to it like ducks to a pond..... then they wanted to fire his Springfield XD 40... and they both love it. He says they're dead on accurate, too. Excellent shooters, the pair of them. Its particularly fun because they're both VERY feminine and girly, but LOVE outside activities, and now shooting Daddy's pistols is high on their list....... he's now considering saving his sheckels to get a Ruger Super Redhawk in /44 Magnum...... any wagers on how those girls will take to that one? I know which square I'm putting MY bet on.....
that rental wall sounds like a day's worth of fun, smoke, and noise......