How do get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. My point being either gun is a fine starter gun. The merits of either are listed in previous posts. When I met my future wife she had an off brand low rent revolver in 32S&W Long. I took her to the range to see how she and the gun would do. Frankly, while I believe she could have effectively defended herself, the two index fingers on the trigger pull kinda freaked me out. Not that she was a wimp, she could wrangle 90# bales of alfalfa as well as any man. In a round about way, I eventually got her a 442. She liked it. I knew she might be sensitive to recoil, so we practised with wadcutters eventually graduating to std velocity ammo. Now she can do an occasional cylinder full of +p, but complains alot. I did notice her preferred choice of ammo for carry is +p.

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