I managed to get my wife outdoors a couple weeks ago to do a little shooting. She was a little frustrated with her performance when shooting her little snubbie SP101. She switched to her red dot equipped Ruger MKII and started having a much better time, but the highlight for her was when I put my Ruger .223 Compact in her hands and told her to "bust those water bottles".
She raved about how handy the gun is, lack of recoil, what it did to the water bottles and what a confidence booster it was to shoot because it was so much easier to score hits with it than her pistols. In fact, now she's talking about making my little Ruger her own.
Well, to put a stop to that nonsense, we made a side trip last weekend to stop at an area sporting goods store to look at guns. She handled a 4" barreled SP101 in .357 that she really took a liking to. She also looked at a Ruger 77/.357 rifle that she really liked (as did I ). I'm thinking that for the kind of shooting she's most likely to do that the .357 rifle might be more useful to her than the .223 compact.
So my question is this-for anybody who has one of these guns or has shot one, what are your impressions? Recoil comparisons, accuracy potential, function, etc.
TIA,
Scott
She raved about how handy the gun is, lack of recoil, what it did to the water bottles and what a confidence booster it was to shoot because it was so much easier to score hits with it than her pistols. In fact, now she's talking about making my little Ruger her own.
Well, to put a stop to that nonsense, we made a side trip last weekend to stop at an area sporting goods store to look at guns. She handled a 4" barreled SP101 in .357 that she really took a liking to. She also looked at a Ruger 77/.357 rifle that she really liked (as did I ). I'm thinking that for the kind of shooting she's most likely to do that the .357 rifle might be more useful to her than the .223 compact.
So my question is this-for anybody who has one of these guns or has shot one, what are your impressions? Recoil comparisons, accuracy potential, function, etc.
TIA,
Scott