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Would you let your Wife CC a .22 pistol? (Educated opinions only please)
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<blockquote data-quote="ProBusiness" data-source="post: 1676737" data-attributes="member: 6145"><p>- carrying any gun is better than nothing</p><p>- a lot of my remington .22 cartridges misfire</p><p>- bullet placement is important</p><p>- per a study i read, about any caliber, it did not mention .17, but .22 thru .45, a bullet to head or spinal column, or heart pretty much kills - one shot. a bullet anywhere else then predictions are hard to make. </p><p>- A guy who i trust told me that recently a tulsa LEO shot a guy 9 times and he lived. That is 9 times with a Glock 22, 40 caliber HP. So a larger caliber does not ALWAYS mean protection. </p><p>- Women sometimes are different than men. Some women, even with training and understanding of the risk, just do not want to shoot anything bigger than a .22. I have seen it and cannot fully understand it. I think some women place being comfortable above anything else. Until you have seen a student start shaking so bad that they cannot shoot or put down the pistol, even at a paper target, or a women student come to you while shooting and say, "I just can't do this, i have to leave." and hand you the gun, it is hard to understand the complexities of a woman. Now, I am not privy it they got more training or not, probably if they would except more training they could work thru this, but my point is that i believe that you have to let a woman make up her own mind. If a woman is carrying a larger caliber and really does not want to shoot it, not confident with the gun, cannot hit the target, then what good is it? On the other hand, a .22 with several cartridges and she can handle it and hit the target and <strong>wants to carry that gun</strong> - hard call. </p><p>- My advice is have your wife shoot as many guns as she can. I have found that many can handle a 9mm pretty accurately and don't mind the recoil.</p><p>- I have a class called Firearms For Women where women shoot 14 diff sizes and calibers of handguns with other women. When they are done with the class, a woman can tell you what gun they don't want to shoot and what gun or guns they think they can handle. <strong>Sometimes a woman seeing other women shoot and manage a larger gun will encourage them to try a larger caliber and then find out they can shoot it.</strong></p><p>- If you are interested in my classes - go to my web site <a href="http://www.firearmsontarget.com" target="_blank">www.firearmsontarget.com</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProBusiness, post: 1676737, member: 6145"] - carrying any gun is better than nothing - a lot of my remington .22 cartridges misfire - bullet placement is important - per a study i read, about any caliber, it did not mention .17, but .22 thru .45, a bullet to head or spinal column, or heart pretty much kills - one shot. a bullet anywhere else then predictions are hard to make. - A guy who i trust told me that recently a tulsa LEO shot a guy 9 times and he lived. That is 9 times with a Glock 22, 40 caliber HP. So a larger caliber does not ALWAYS mean protection. - Women sometimes are different than men. Some women, even with training and understanding of the risk, just do not want to shoot anything bigger than a .22. I have seen it and cannot fully understand it. I think some women place being comfortable above anything else. Until you have seen a student start shaking so bad that they cannot shoot or put down the pistol, even at a paper target, or a women student come to you while shooting and say, "I just can't do this, i have to leave." and hand you the gun, it is hard to understand the complexities of a woman. Now, I am not privy it they got more training or not, probably if they would except more training they could work thru this, but my point is that i believe that you have to let a woman make up her own mind. If a woman is carrying a larger caliber and really does not want to shoot it, not confident with the gun, cannot hit the target, then what good is it? On the other hand, a .22 with several cartridges and she can handle it and hit the target and [B]wants to carry that gun[/B] - hard call. - My advice is have your wife shoot as many guns as she can. I have found that many can handle a 9mm pretty accurately and don't mind the recoil. - I have a class called Firearms For Women where women shoot 14 diff sizes and calibers of handguns with other women. When they are done with the class, a woman can tell you what gun they don't want to shoot and what gun or guns they think they can handle. [B]Sometimes a woman seeing other women shoot and manage a larger gun will encourage them to try a larger caliber and then find out they can shoot it.[/B] - If you are interested in my classes - go to my web site [url]www.firearmsontarget.com[/url]. [/QUOTE]
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