What to get the wife?

41 magnums · #1 05-12-2010, 12:34 AM

I brought home my new M&P 45 tonight and my wife loves it, She has two S&W revolvers now that she likes to shoot, but now she wants a Simi auto. She likes the wieght of my M&P and the feel. What should I get her? Maybe a M&P 9?

Mel

ScottJ · #2 05-12-2010, 07:47 AM

Let her try the 45 and if she likes it get another.

goldwinghg · #3 05-12-2010, 07:56 AM

Buy her a M&P 40. You can change the barrel, and it will shoot 357sig. also. I bought my 357 sig. Barrel from S&W, or I believe Midway USA, has them also. I love my M&P 40.

novalty · #4 05-12-2010, 08:10 AM

She will probably like the M&P 45 just fine. I have rhuematoid arthritis and didn't have a problem with additional recoil from the 9mm to 45acp. However, the 9mm would certainly be cheaper to shoot in the long run.

Parker Phoenix · #5 05-12-2010, 08:19 AM

Have you thought about finding her a 3913?

gunlovingirl · #6 05-12-2010, 08:30 AM

I's suggest getting her her own M&P 45, and a M&P 9, and a LadySmith, and a K22, and..........

117 · #7 05-12-2010, 10:28 AM

++++ on the 3913

DCWilson · #8 05-12-2010, 10:37 AM

I think you should get her to a range where she can try out a couple of other autos side by side with the .45. Maybe a second .45 is in the cards, maybe a 9mm will be preferred. She'll let you know. Her opinion after a hands-on experience will be vastly more authoritative and reliable than any second-hand advice you pick up here.

Apart from this advice, of course, which is first-rate.

mlk18 · #9 05-12-2010, 12:06 PM

I agree, start at your local gun shop where she can handle numerous offerings. Then borrow models (if possible) that have been discontinued (like the 3913). Once she finds a gun or two that are ergonomically compatible then it's time to hit the range with rental guns and/or borrowed guns.

Maybe she should hold out until the new SD series hits the market in June. Looks promising.

BruceB · #10 05-12-2010, 11:33 PM

I just went through this with my wife on Sunday. We both showed up for an all-day range event, and she was going to use my Model 39 for the day. She's had some experience with it, but mostly not very serious paper punching days, and mostly in single action mode.

This day was a concealed carry class with lots of instruction and practice with shooting double action - draw and shoot from a holster, pistol de-cocked of course. She didn't make it 30 minutes before it was painfully (literally) obvious that the pistol didn't suit her small hands.

After she sat out the rest of the day while I exercised my newly acquired 5906, we spent some time in the shop looking at new pistols. We had spent the day a few weeks ago shooting a wide variety of handguns, from full-size autos and revolvers down to the smallest available .380 and 9mm autos. She liked the Kahr CW9, and a Glock compact 9mm with cut-down grips, and the 3913 and 3953 were right in there.

The shop had a M&P 9C there which neither of us had handled before, and that seemed to be quite a hit with the smallest grips installed. They didn't have one in rental, but now she's excited to go find one in rental somewhere to try out. Of course, I'm still lobbying for the 3913 or 3953, but I'm not the one shooting it, but I could certainly be willing to share the M&P and the interchangeable grips make it possible.

Of course, I could just get a 3913 and offer it for use...

RobertJ. · #11 05-13-2010, 12:16 AM

Buy her something you've always wanted!

41 magnums · #12 05-13-2010, 12:40 AM

Well were leaving tomorrow night for are get away place in the mountains. We will be shooting the M&P 45 and my 41 mags. Which she does not like to shoot. but I'll see how she handles the 45 and go from there. I reload so the cost of ammo does not matter. But she was so impressed how the 45 felt in her hand that she wants one, And as for me anytime I can buy a new gun with her egging me on I have to jump on it.

Mel