{"id":102858,"date":"2019-01-08T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=102858"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:30:15","slug":"the-perfect-noob-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-perfect-noob-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-102859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FromThePages_12.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The following is a syndicated article by author Tamara Keel that first appeared in USCCA\u2019s Concealed Carry Magazine Volume 13, Issue 3, April 2016 under the title, \u201cThe Noob Gun: What Handgun Is Right for the New Shooter?\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am shopping for my first handgun and I\u2019m a complete newbie to shooting. What should I buy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This question has been asked in gun stores, on internet forums and of the designated Office Gun Person more times than there are grains of sand on the seashore. Traditionally, there have been two different answers.<\/p>\n<h2>Get a .22!<\/h2>\n<p>The first answer is \u201cGet a .22 pistol.\u201d There are sound reasons for this. If a new shooter is going to develop proficiency with a gun, then it would be hard to think of a better implement with which to develop this proficiency than a full-size .22 plinking pistol. A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?Keyword=ruger%20mark%20III\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\"> Ruger Mark III<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?Keyword=Browning%20Buckmark\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\">Browning Buckmark<\/a> has an easy-to-manage single-action trigger and is mild to shoot with minimal recoil and muzzle blast to interfere with learning trigger control or cause the novice to develop a flinch.<\/p>\n<p>The ammunition, while not as cheap as it once was, is still a fraction of the cost of even the cheapest centerfire ammo. These days, one can get .22 pistols that replicate most of the popular centerfire service autos, as well as compact .22 plinkers, like the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?Keyword=Ruger%20SR22\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\"> Ruger SR22<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?Keyword=Smith%20%26%20Wesson%20M%26P22C\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\"> Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P22C<\/a>, that make these guns excellent \u201cunderstudies\u201d for more serious defensive pieces. All these are on the positive side of the .22 ledger.<\/p>\n<h2>Get A Centerfire Service Pistol<\/h2>\n<p>However, there\u2019s another camp that recommends going ahead and buying the defensive pistol, under the theory that most people aren\u2019t going to take up shooting as a hobby. Rather they want to buy a pistol for defense and they\u2019re going to seek out a minimum of training, if they even bother to train at all. They\u2019re going to buy that one handgun and they\u2019re going to throw it into a sock drawer or purse or glovebox, and that\u2019s the only one they\u2019re going to have if and when the balloon goes up. Under those circumstances, the second theory goes, shouldn\u2019t they have the most effective one possible?<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/why-girls-need-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-perfect-noob-gun\" title=\"The Perfect Noob Gun: The Handgun That Is Just Right for the New Shooter\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Girls Need Guns: Teaching My 12-Year-Old Daughter to Shoot<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Having the chance to be in a retail\/range environment again, where I get to see a bunch of new shooters and first-time buyers in action, I\u2019m starting to wonder if there might not be something to both these camps. I see lots of people experience a first range visit with compact defensive pistols and .22 autos, and I have to wonder\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>And The Answer Is&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>There are some shooters who, for reasons of size, infirmity and\/or plain old general trepidation about guns, just have a hard time with the typical defensive pistol. The double-action revolver or compact auto that can be mastered by 90 percent of shooters remains, for whatever reason, beyond others\u2019 ability to manipulate well or with any degree of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>And yet often I see this same sort of shooter doing great with one of the smaller .22s, like the aforementioned M&amp;P Compact, and I wonder to myself which would be more likely to deter a bad guy: someone reaching a trembling hand for a gun that they\u2019ve hardly ever fired because they are almost as afraid of it as they are the criminal? Or someone reaching for a little pistol that they feel confident in using to make little .22-inch holes all around the middle of the target? Is confidence enough of a force multiplier to outweigh caliber?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know that I know the right answer to that question, but it\u2019s something worth thinking about.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discover how you can join nearly 300,000 responsibly armed Americans who already rely on the USCCA to protect their families, futures and freedoms: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" campaign=\"USCCATop5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">USCCA.com\/gunsamerica<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am shopping for my first handgun and I\u2019m a complete newbie to shooting. 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