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Hey buddy😁 would you mind telling my wife that?
I would appreciate it. 😂😂

A thoughtful and sensitive husband would also order a gun for himself, so your wife's pistol doesn't make that long, lonely trip by itself.

Sure thing. Maybe you could help me out a little too!

My gun pusher said I am about #5 on the list for a new Equalizer.
So at least I can tell my wife that hers is ordered and will be here when they can get one for her.
😅

Sarge, earlier this week I picked up an M&P 40, so this one for her is just to even things up.

River Rider, let your wife know that I think you’re an ideal husband, and she should be happy to have you. Think that will work?

I kinda doubt it. Probably good for an eyeroll, though.



I appreciate the offer, though.

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IIRC, their response included, "all those grip safeties are going in PC models right now."

Maybe someday that will change. Hope so. Now that they've made it RDS ready, it is otherwise a great pistol.

With the EZ slide requiring less force to rack is there a noticeable increase in felt recoil?

Two Equalizers showed up yesterday at the shop.
They come with 3 magazines, a 10, a 13 and a 15 round. Smith includes an Uplula loading tool.
Since the gun’s niche is small people or those with limited hand strength, the inclusion of the loading tool makes sense. Shield Plus magazines are not the easiest to load and the Equalizer uses them.
Picking the pistol up, my first impression was how slim the grip was and how nicely rounded it felt in the hand. Good grip texture is “there”.
I didn’t have enough time to really examine it closely but we will be be back to buy at least one I’m sure.

Add a Holosun 507C and hand it over to the wife. She won’t take long to learn how to use the reflex sight and the enjoyment of shooting will be back. Iron sights aren’t age friendly and having the red dot allows one to continue shooting handguns for a good while longer.

I am anxious to shoot it and see how it performs. For me but especially for my wife.
I want to see how it compares in total to my Sig P-365.

A logical setup in my opinion.

Thanks. We are both watching the video you posted the other day. Excellent stuff, thanks for that.

If I thought my wife would carry it I’d buy one. I really don’t need the EZ pull slide. I like the Holosun idea. Because of my eyesight not being what it once was, I put a Holosun 507K on my P365XL and like it. There is a learning curve using an optic. Some good videos on YouTube about that. I was wondering how the lighter recoil spring affects the slide battering the frame with hot 9mm loads.

Ron

Well, it needs to come home with us 🙄first before I can let you know my thoughts and impressions.

Highly recommend 147gr., subsonic stuff.

Highly.

Duly noted.

I’ve had a lot of slender females use the EZs in classes and they’ve all had problems with the grip safety while firing.

Not every time, but at some point in the day they do. Their hands are too slender to reliably depress the safety under stress or keep it depressed during recoil.

A heavier girl with thicker hands did fine.

As I would expect from my experience. Blue, have you been around any of them using the PC edition? Does the bigger grip safety eliminate that problem? It seems to me that S&W knows there's a problem, or they wouldn't have bothered attempting a solution. And then I have to wonder why they wouldn't put that bigger lever on all of them.

Until they fix the grip safety so it fits the mission (weak hands), I can't get on board with the EZ line. I wanted to like the gun, but thus far, it's a fail.

The only PC I’ve seen was shot by the girl with thick hands.

I suspect it won’t make much difference if the safety has to be completely depressed.

Thanks, Blue. I suspect you may be right. The dang thing is upside down in the first place. The leverage and geometry all wrong. Idunno if it could have been done differently on that pistol, but it should have been.

My wife is rather slight, and she has had no issues with the grip safety, but that is good to know