What is best gun for arthritic hands
Colleene Answers Questions (Ep.87): Best Gun for Arthritic Hands
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hi this is Kohli from keeping the peace
and welcome back to another episode of
choline answers your questions today our
question comes from red rice three I'm
probably butchering the pronunciation
I'll put it here and it came in the
downbar of choosing a handgun episode
six
physical challenges and I'm going to
summarize some of it
this gentleman is trying to find a gun
for his mother she's in her 70s and she
has arthritis in her hands and she
initially tried semi-automatic but was
turned off basically because of the
weight and she liked the sights of the
semi-auto but wasn't real crazy about
having to manipulate the slide which is
really common with not only older people
but people who struggle with arthritis
in their hands
okay she then tried several different
revolvers so he had her try the Smith &
Wesson Model S P 101 the weight was
perfect with 38 special the weight
helped mitigate the recoil the sights
were not to her liking so she doesn't
like those typical revolvers sights I
agree they're difficult to line up and
hard to see on a dark target so she said
can you find that gun but with
semi-automatic sights basically so she
likes that squared off miss of
semi-automatic sights he searched and
found the widely Clapp version that had
perfect sights they went back for
another shooting session but the second
time she shot it the trigger bothered
her very common for revolvers have very
heavy triggers okay so he's not sure how
to deal with getting her something with
a lighter trigger you're not really
gonna find a revolver with a light
trigger unless you have something done
to it and then that's a whole nother
ball of questions there so basically are
there any arthritis friendly revolvers
is what he wants to know do I just take
a bunch of snap caps and let her dry
fire at the store
she finds one that feels good or do I
call her around and pray that someone
has one to rent
thank you for your vice definitely go
somewhere where you can rent handguns
and out of all the revolvers I've shot I
also have arthritis in my hands
especially my thumbs and my trigger
fingers probably because I use those the
most especially with loading magazines I
think I've kind of done some damage
there and I cannot handle shooting
double action on a revolver for very
long without severe pain in this joint
hurts terribly I also have the same
problem with really small micro pistols
like the Ruger LCP or the Smith & Wesson
little teeny what does it call a little
380 little MMP 380 Cal Tech P 380 that
one all those little teeny ones with
that really long trigger after you know
50 rounds I've got some severe pain in
this joint because of arthritis so I
totally understand what she's talking
about with the trigger out of all our
revolvers I've shot the Ruger LCR in my
opinion has the best trigger it doesn't
it's still heavy but it doesn't have the
same kind of feel as all the Smith &
Wesson's that I've shot I like it if I
were to ever go back to carrying over
water which I probably won't but if
Howard to buy revolver that's the one
that I would get I enjoy the way the
trigger is now the sights they might be
a tiny bit different than you know the
one that she shot the Smith & Wesson
that she shot but you're not gonna find
one of those with the big squared off
sights it's just it's kind of a balance
you know you might be able to maybe
paint a white dot that might help or get
fiber-optics put on there or something
like that but in my opinion that's the
easiest revolver to shoot now if she's
willing to try another semi-automatic
the one that I always will make the
recommend for people with truly weak or
with arthritic hands is the Sig sawyer p
238 it's in a 380 acp calibre it has an
extremely easy action it's very easy to
manipulate the slide it's very easy to
and
our magazines and cycle around into the
chamber the safety is fairly easy
however when my arthritis and my thumb's
is really acting up sometimes I have to
use the thumb of my non-dominant hand to
come up and thumb off and on the safety
it kind of depends because arthritis
goes in cycles sometimes you're really
flared up and sometimes you're not so
she'll probably find that that issue
also if her arthritis is causing
deformity in the hands which some people
do some people have hands that are so
wrecked by arthritis that there are
actually bending of the digits and
things like that then you have other
issues so if that's an issue please let
me know because I'm not referring to
that in this video if that's an issue
tell me down below and we'll we'll try
to figure that out but I would have her
try the Ruger LCR and the six sawyer p
238 and then let me know
what happens and hopefully you can find
a place where you can rent both of those
because that makes the world of
difference before you lay down the cash
to buy something it's definitely good to
rent if you can so hopefully I answered
your question if any of you have
arthritis and you have found a perfect
solution for yourself or if you have an
aged parent and you're trying to find a
gun for them and you have found the
perfect thing for someone with arthritis
please I'll leave that down below in the
comments I love to learn from you guys
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