Going back to a minor rant I did on airlite .38s (
not the "wife a hangun" one) and how the newbie old guy came in to the range with one last week along with some super hot rounds they sold him with the gun at Cabelas and how he probably wasn't going to like the recoil. A LOT of shops around here are pushing these on newbies.
Anyhow he came back this week with milder run of the mill plated factory reloads that he could shoot at our place. I had him warm up with his Ruger MK III and then told him to start with the .38 by only loading one round at a time. I watched him pop one off just to be sure he was going to be safe and then I left him alone. He came in the office about a half hour later and said, "I don't think I want to
ever shoot that gun again! It's tearing my hands up!"
It makes me sad (or maybe mad) to see a guy like that spend what, $600+ on a gun, and not like shooting it right out of the box. I told him to take it back to Cabelas, give them a bunch of crap about it and see if they'll give him at least most of his money back so that he could spend it on a steel .38 instead. He said, "What's the difference?" I explained aluminum vs steel and weight vs recoil. I said, "That gun is made out of aluminum." He said, "It
is?" He had
no idea.
Makes me mad,,, just sayin'.