Officers'Wife
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If the gun fits, her perception of recoil will be minimal; in test after test it seems the sound has as much, or more, of an effect on a person's perception of recoil. We have all seen the yahoos on you tube giving some wife/gf/sil a hand cannon and they filmed while she got the you-know-what scared out of her. Now she won't ever want to shoot again.
By the same token I've seen my sister take Dad's ancient pump 12ga shotgun & hit three clay pigeons on the fly with it. Her big macho husband whimpered and whined from the recoil after the first shot. TI tells a lot of guys that we mere women can't handle the "big boys" of the firearm world. Like all blanket statements they are all wet. Yes, I would probably turn to my "underpowered" 32-20 and don't have much use for a 12 gauge. But like the line in the old guy movie, I never once said I don't know how to use one.