To answer your questions it is others around me lacking confidence. Most of all my husband. The only shooting experience I have is shooting a BB gun as a kid. Furthermore, I will become comfortable with handling firearms. ;) They don't scare me to hold them, I just need to get educated on...
Thank you for your response. I have decided not to start out with a shotgun but will go with a handgun first. Later will come the rifles and shotguns. I believe the Mossberg 500 will be my first shotgun, but first I am going to break in a handgun and get my husband to be comfortable with me...
Yes, I was looking at a 500 or a 510 for the smaller length and lighter weight. To be perfectly honest though I don't know what I want. I am trying to gather more info to discover what I want. I am getting info from friends family and then of course forums(who are less biased).
Everyone thinks I should get a handgun...I think more because of the lack confidence in my abilities to shoot a larger gun. This just makes me want a larger gun even more. What I'm looking at though is what should be my first gun something to go to target practice and defend my home.
Well I'll start off by saying hello. I am looking for a self defense gun but would really love to do some hunting as well. As far as for self defense I really have loved the pump action shotgun in the stores such as the 500 and 510. However, I read an interesting article online that suggested a...