Theres a place near here I discovered recently via radio advertisement called 22three. It's hands down the best gun store I've ever visited! I want to rent a room there!!! Seriously, it's cool, laid back, very friendly... you know how in small towns the old men hang out at local diners or whatever early in the morning and have coffee and just talk? That's how this place is. Only it's guns. Not coffee. But maybe they had coffe. And it's not just old men. They have a few tables inside and a porch outside with chairs. I mean it's really like a porch, rocking chairs, wood railing etc. It's a new building though.
I went with my youngest, she's 11 now. We were doing a sort of father daughter date day. I took her too a really cool old town and they were having a festival and car show with the streets closed off and everything. We stopped in a small chocolate shop and I bought her a plush/stuffed cat that she really liked. We got some coffee and snacks and headed to the gun store.
The purpose for going to the gun store was to see what handgun best fit her as she's getting more interested in shooting. Initially one of the guys suggested a couple .22s like the venerable Ruger and even a S&W shield or something. I told them that she's been shooting a 1911 but it's just a little big and that my wife has some ideas for a carry gun and that my hope was to find something to serve a dual purpose; carry gun for my wife as well as being something my daughter could practice with.
Now this place doesn't have glass cases full of guns. What they have is a wall of guns. The guns are on lanyards but held with a small clip. I asked the guy if my daughter would be able to handle the guns to check fit and make sure she could reach the trigger and they enthusiastically said yes! We tried out about 20 different pistols from Glock to HK to FN to Sig to S&W to Walther to of course Kimber and one that I'm very interested in, the Honor Defense Honor Guard 9mm. (I really like that one as well as the newer FN 509) The full size striker fired guns she couldn't properly reach the trigger. 1911s are a little easier just because the trigger design is different (and superior in my opinion)
She most like the guns that were more similar to my Ultra Carry, but there were a couple double action striker fired pistols she was ok with. (We were actually able to cycle each firearm and dry fire) The Glock trigger is disgusting. It's spongy with a lot of take up and the wall of resistance builds without being able to feel where it breaks. Some of the striker fired guns had a little take up, real smooth with no resistance, then the wall and a clean crisp break. Some were just too stiff for my daughter. The S&W was one of those. Her favorite was the smaller Sig .380 carry gun and the runner up was the Kimber Micro with extended magazine. Both are 1911 patterned guns with a wonderful trigger.
More later.
I went with my youngest, she's 11 now. We were doing a sort of father daughter date day. I took her too a really cool old town and they were having a festival and car show with the streets closed off and everything. We stopped in a small chocolate shop and I bought her a plush/stuffed cat that she really liked. We got some coffee and snacks and headed to the gun store.
The purpose for going to the gun store was to see what handgun best fit her as she's getting more interested in shooting. Initially one of the guys suggested a couple .22s like the venerable Ruger and even a S&W shield or something. I told them that she's been shooting a 1911 but it's just a little big and that my wife has some ideas for a carry gun and that my hope was to find something to serve a dual purpose; carry gun for my wife as well as being something my daughter could practice with.
Now this place doesn't have glass cases full of guns. What they have is a wall of guns. The guns are on lanyards but held with a small clip. I asked the guy if my daughter would be able to handle the guns to check fit and make sure she could reach the trigger and they enthusiastically said yes! We tried out about 20 different pistols from Glock to HK to FN to Sig to S&W to Walther to of course Kimber and one that I'm very interested in, the Honor Defense Honor Guard 9mm. (I really like that one as well as the newer FN 509) The full size striker fired guns she couldn't properly reach the trigger. 1911s are a little easier just because the trigger design is different (and superior in my opinion)
She most like the guns that were more similar to my Ultra Carry, but there were a couple double action striker fired pistols she was ok with. (We were actually able to cycle each firearm and dry fire) The Glock trigger is disgusting. It's spongy with a lot of take up and the wall of resistance builds without being able to feel where it breaks. Some of the striker fired guns had a little take up, real smooth with no resistance, then the wall and a clean crisp break. Some were just too stiff for my daughter. The S&W was one of those. Her favorite was the smaller Sig .380 carry gun and the runner up was the Kimber Micro with extended magazine. Both are 1911 patterned guns with a wonderful trigger. More later.
