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- From: chrisb@wang.com (Chris Bennet)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for small hands
- Message-ID: <199301261834.AA04783@elf.wang.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:37:46 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- hancock@iex.iex.com (David Hancock) writes:
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- #In article <c61802wv32X.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> mws20@ccc.amdahl.com (Mark Sechrest) writes:
- ##
- ##I am in the market for a 9mm handgun, and I would like to hear some
- ##suggestions about what guns fit well in smaller hands. A friend has a
- #[snipped for brevity]
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- #I suspect this will be echoed several times (if *this* isn't already an
- #echo ;-). Consider a Browning High Power. I have fairly small mitts,
- #and it fits my hand better than any other high-cap 9mms. Were I in the
- #market, the HP would be in the race. Having shot a SIG P226 at the range
- #a couple months ago, I would have to consider it, too, in *spite* of a
- #larger grip. It might be worth learning to compensate for it.
-
- ECHO, Echo, echo,... :)
-
- The BHP _is_ very good in the grip. The trigger can be a little
- far to reach. My finger touches the _side_ instead of the front
- of the trigger. The gunsmith is in the process of chopping the
- trigger off mine and welding it on so I can reach it easier - and
- take advantage of the trigger job. Even the SIG 226 is too large for
- those of us with really small paws.
- The Colt 1911 with the short [not the "target length/long"] trigger
- is even smaller but does sacrifice the large capacity of say the
- "new" wonder nines like the BHP [aka P35 as in 1935].
- Chris
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