Meet Samantha

This is Samantha, my Sig Sauer SP 2022. 

It takes a 15 round (9mm) magazine. The mechanisms are very simple: pop in the mag, chamber a round, start shooting. There's no manual safety. The first trigger-pull is double action, so just a little harder than the next 14 (unless you cock manually--which sounds dirtier than it is), but not much (unlike my husband's Ruger P95).

I haven't used a whole lot of pistols, so take my opinions with a grain of salt, but this is both the lightest stock and the least recoil i've experienced so far. Granted, the only other things i've shot more than once are the Ruger P95 and a Czech 1911-style pistol (can't for the life of me think of the model number).  The Ruger P95 is so clunky it won't fit in a normal holster, so this feels sleek in comparison.

Doesn't shoot too bad either; this is the result of my first mag (with very little previous experience with any pistol):

11/15 rounds made it on the paper; i'll be honest, my arm was tired for the last four, if that tells you how inexperienced i really am.

Welcome to The Gun Show

I went to my first gun show today--what an experience! 

First of all, this is clearly the only event hosted on the fairgrounds during which there is no line to the ladies' room.  None!  This is spectacular in itself.  I wondered if there was a line for the mens' room, but no one would tell me.  No one.

I wish i had photos to share, but cameras were prohibited.  Suffice it to say that there were far more guns than i could have looked at and fondled over the course of the afternoon, and more ammo than i could have shot in a month.  Ok, maybe several weeks, and that's counting all the once-used brass.

We did come home with our prize though: a Ruger P95 to replace the Sig Sauer SP 2022 that i "took" from my husband.  We also found a nylon holster to temporarily hold the cumbersome beast of a pistol.