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[Some here are milk toast shooters.

Great about how not to teach. Nice loose hold with a cannon. LET IT ROLL!
Some here are milk toast shooters. I have had ladies here that can shoot anything. Instruction is what you do. Never hand anyone a huge gun without instruction. If a person is not strong enough in your opinion, don't do it. There is always a limit. I advocate large to start but you never want to inflict pain or fear. Some men are wimps with any gun but woman are tough as nails if taught. They are like clay to form. If you fear any gun don't stick it in a girls hands. Done right she will make you look sick. Just why would you put anyone in danger like that? It is just plain sick.

Ive got two S&W 500's Why piddle with something less powerful. That's not all Ive got either.

My ego doesn't need to be salved. It seems like your does. Or you wouldn't want to be arguing with me on something like this.

Recoil never bothered me. I was a kid and borrowed a side by side Ithaca to hunt rabbits. For fun I would yank both triggers to spin a circle. I had to quit when the forearm came off and the barrels hit the ground. I was 14 when I got my model 27 S&W. At 16 I got my Mark IV .300 Weatherby. I bought my flat top Ruger .44 in 1956 and shot the 429421 with 22 gr of 2400. I put silver inlays in the front sight for distance but to break rocks at 600+ yards on the RR bank took most of the barrel above the rear sight. I put masking tape on the barrel. I have owned 5 S&W 29's. I did shoot a 2-1/2" group at 500 yards with my BFR in 45-70. Had to aim 26 to 30' at a tree limb to hit steel.
My favorite guns to shoot today are the .475 and .500 JRH BFR's. Joe up town was here and I got him to shoot it twice and he hit paper. He kept looking at his hand after. John was here and both John and I shot less then 1/2" groups. I made the 440 gr mold for the .500 and it did a one hole group from Whitworths JRH at 50 yards. Joe says a revolver was not made for distance and was never made for hunting. Maybe you should ask Whitworth and JWP about THAT. To see Whitworth take little water bottles off hand from a tree stand at 100+ yards might change how you think. Whit was here when I shot an empty paint spray can at 200 yards with my 45-70 BFR from Creedmore.
Most recoil problems come from guys buying real short barrels and super light revolvers and yes they sting like mad. I have shot many .357 revolvers that are worse then the .500. My friend has a license and got me the .475, came to shoot and did not wear a cap for the sun. I held a cardboard to shade him and he hollered. He split his head wide open and got a shiner you would not believe. He said he likes to hold his guns loose. My fault for not instructing him. His comment was "I don't like your guns."
But if you think shooting a .22 will cure a flinch, forget it. When you get a beast in your hand you will be jello. I shot with the Cleveland police and seen them cry with .38 specials. I touched off my .44 mag and all the cops stepped back to see what in the world went off.
My neighbor is an air marshal and I would not want to be on a plane if he shot. .357 Sig. Joe, the marshal and the fireman down the road takes that "stance." 7 yards and can't hit a thing. Lean with a hunchback and it looks like they will fall on their face. Eyeballs like footballs if I hold my gun out to them
True I have run down unsafe practices but never the man. Safety is first and I don't care what you call me or say so if you told anyone to do wrong maybe you should stop and think. I only explain what not to do. You DO NOT put 25 gr of 296 behind a 320 gr bullet in a .44. Yet it is posted.
Maybe some of you should learn what a revolver can do.

It is in the mind.

How would you know when you don’t have one...

Mind over recoil. That's where its at.

I have enough mind to know it is mind over recoil. More than most have,

You can't shoot.

I have known a few folks who could be accurately described as numb from the neck up.

Much like a pit bull, unaware of pain and injury, until the Dr looks at an X-ray and asks "When did you break THAT bone?"

Uh, duh, I don't know.

I bet "mind over recoil" is easy for them.

But pain hurts most people.

You are like the other mental giants. You are right I cant shoot. I cause the gun to shoot. So there MG you are right I cant shoot and neither do the rest of you. What do you do to shoot hold the cartridge in your teeth and have your someone hit you in the back of the head with a ball bat to fire the cartridge? Do you have to poke your eyes back in their sockets because the bat or of the cartridge firing?
Do you clean your drawers each shot or do you wait till you shoot several rounds before you hose yourself off? Or do you stick the cartridge up your rectum like a suppository and have your boyfriend hit it with a ball peen hammer so the bullet comes out of your mouth?
So you shoot right?

Babble to your heart's content.

You still can't shoot.

Love those 100yd targets you post though. LMAO.