Pistol for a small womans hands.
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And the other consideration is how much weight she can lift - what is her core strength level.
Just because she is small doesn't mean she is not jacked. There are small stocky strong girls, but there are also small thin petite weak girls.
If she is not strong, giving her a metal gun like shadows will not work - you are asking her to lift a 2lb dumb bell and hold it out for core strength challenge.
So metal guns may have less recoil, but she needs to the core strength to hold.
Just because she is small doesn't mean she is not jacked. There are small stocky strong girls, but there are also small thin petite weak girls.
If she is not strong, giving her a metal gun like shadows will not work - you are asking her to lift a 2lb dumb bell and hold it out for core strength challenge.
So metal guns may have less recoil, but she needs to the core strength to hold.
I actually will advise against G48 - I had a glock 48.
Glock 48 is NOT an easy gun to shoot. Yes, for the beef eating guys here with regular and above average grip strength it is no big deal, but women average 60% of men's grip will suffer. You will see shots start going low left.
It fits - but the trigger is stiffer and recoil is more vicious. This is a big warning not to jump on a G48 unless your lady has grip strength. Go measure it, compare yours against hers. You will get the point and gauge accordingly.
Glock 48 is NOT an easy gun to shoot. Yes, for the beef eating guys here with regular and above average grip strength it is no big deal, but women average 60% of men's grip will suffer. You will see shots start going low left.
It fits - but the trigger is stiffer and recoil is more vicious. This is a big warning not to jump on a G48 unless your lady has grip strength. Go measure it, compare yours against hers. You will get the point and gauge accordingly.
good advice but i will add most here do not even shoot their toys ...
Thanks again for all the replies. I think ill try and find a cz p10c as suggested by greentips and a hk sfp9 the other lady suggested.
Thanks very much. Her hands are super small and i agree with holding the large metal weight out in front. Wont happen.
Thanks very much. Her hands are super small and i agree with holding the large metal weight out in front. Wont happen.
Heavy steel gun = less felt recoil.
Much better for a novice, less likelihood of developing a flinch.
What’s her hand size? A short person could have long fingers. Grip strength and upper body / core condition is a matter of practice.
My daughter started with Shadow 1 w/ thin alu grips, those turned out to be too thin and slippery. Swapped them out for G10.
Her current blaster is Shadow 2 w/ Lok palmswell bogies. Although the kid can shoot pretty much anything reasonably well, she despises Glocks. I’ve seen girls running SVI Infinity no problem.
Any steel frame CZ or Tanfoglio will be a good option, easy to fine tune for the user.
+ get a 22 conversion kit.
Much better for a novice, less likelihood of developing a flinch.
What’s her hand size? A short person could have long fingers. Grip strength and upper body / core condition is a matter of practice.
My daughter started with Shadow 1 w/ thin alu grips, those turned out to be too thin and slippery. Swapped them out for G10.
Her current blaster is Shadow 2 w/ Lok palmswell bogies. Although the kid can shoot pretty much anything reasonably well, she despises Glocks. I’ve seen girls running SVI Infinity no problem.
Any steel frame CZ or Tanfoglio will be a good option, easy to fine tune for the user.
+ get a 22 conversion kit.
Late to the party but I’ll add my input .
My Glock 48 is great for grip size and is now my main range pistol , but I also really really like shooting the Browning 1911/380 . The Browning is quite a bit slimmer then the Glock and I dig shooting .380 . It’s not nearly as ….chunky to handle as the Glock .
If she can , get her to handle one of these baby 1911s , like me she might really like them .
My Glock 48 is great for grip size and is now my main range pistol , but I also really really like shooting the Browning 1911/380 . The Browning is quite a bit slimmer then the Glock and I dig shooting .380 . It’s not nearly as ….chunky to handle as the Glock .
If she can , get her to handle one of these baby 1911s , like me she might really like them .
Grip size is one piece of the puzzle, the other big piece is grip strength. I like the tennis racquet analogy again - the player can have a right size of grip, but it is counter productive to have too heavy a racquet because all the pros big tall guys use heavier racquet. Like wise, the pros are big guys have size of hands that of gorillas, you can't follow them if you have smaller hands than them. Everyone can pretty much air swing the heavy racquet a few times at the shop, but out on the court for 60 minutes back and forth with people throwing balls at high speed with top spin, all the cracks start showing. Weight, vibration....all hurting the performance, and it cliffs down instead of a steady roll off a slope.
The smaller the gun, the more vicious the recoil pulse( lighter slide and stiffer recoil spring). Compact gun with short grip means less fingers can wrap around - so the shooter have to use 1 finger to do the job of 2 or 3. The shooter gets double whammy'ed. A super big but here, for a strong hand over a certain strength level, it is just "harder" but the perceived difference is minimal. A good analogy will be that if you can lift 100 lb, 105 lb probably won't be much of a difference to you because it is only 5% more. But if you can only lift 50 lb 5 lb is 10% more. For someone with a grip strength that is just enough to handle a full size, any more incremental increase in difficulty means way more proportional to his/her ability. Get a grip strength measuring tool, you maybe cracking at 45kg, but she might be barely getting to 30Kg - you are 50% over her. Your 10% incremental change = 15% to her, your 20% incremental change is 30% to her. Performance is not linear. As "load" and "recoil" increase, difficulty increases at a faster rate and at one point it just goes rocket up - means complete failure in performance.
This is like buying any sporting equipment - skii, racquets, boards, bikes. It needs to go with size, strength, purpose and skill level. Right now, we have a lot of talking on size - but very little discussion on the other 3 factors.
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I've been saying this for a while- MUCH lighter gun, smaller grip, but same cartridge means a WAY snappier gun. If you buy it because your girl is small, has small hands, presumably not very stronk, she probably won't like it. You're better off with a heavy gun. The intimidation factor of a heavy gun is less damaging (And easier to overcome) than the intimidation factor of significant recoil.
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The Glock 48 grip will likely fit nicely, I have one and my average sized hands more than fill those grips up and I end up with a different part of my finger on the trigger than I do with my other full size guns like my M&P and CZ 75 SP-01. I agree with Greentips though, the light weight and snappy recoil impulse make this gun actually more challenging to shoot than my M&P 40. My daughters boyfriend(average sized grade 10 kid) said he prefered shooting the M&P 40 over the Glock 48 when I took them to the range a couple weeks ago.
Another consideration is slide manipulation, both my daughters are pretty short and tiny and they struggle to manipulate the slide on most of my centerfire pistols, the weak recoil spring on my M&P 22 is easy for them though. My one daughter yesterday could not even rack the slide back on my SP-01, never mind lock it back with the slide stop while holding the slide back. Few things to consider aside from grip size before buying, get her hands on as many as possible before deciding if you can.
Another consideration is slide manipulation, both my daughters are pretty short and tiny and they struggle to manipulate the slide on most of my centerfire pistols, the weak recoil spring on my M&P 22 is easy for them though. My one daughter yesterday could not even rack the slide back on my SP-01, never mind lock it back with the slide stop while holding the slide back. Few things to consider aside from grip size before buying, get her hands on as many as possible before deciding if you can.
*fixed it for you.
Calm down, it's a 9mm.
Have been using one off and on since 1978 and haven't had that misfortune yet.
You must hang out with some thick individuals. I’ve been shooting hi-powers for 19 years, never been bit in tens of thousands of rounds. Neither has anyone in my family, nor about 90% of those I’ve let shoot one. I’m not disputing that it happens, it’s absolutely a known issue. But it’s not nearly as prevalent as the internet makes it out to be.
I have a later model with the rounded hammer, it doesn't bite but it does tap me everytime. I understand why they came away from the spur style hammer.
