 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're going to talk about snub-nosed revolvers. I actually left my snub-nosed revolver downstairs. However, the one of the things that I want to talk about today is that we need to stop selling, offering, insisting on snub-nosed revolvers for new slash inexperienced slash female shooters. I don't understand where this thing started or where it came from, but here's what happens, right? A woman wants to get into guns. She goes to a gun store and nine times out of ten, they lead her over to the air weight J-frame revolver section, right? Sometimes they have cute little pink grips on them or whatever and they pull out all these little tiny revolvers and she doesn't know so she starts holding them and whatever and then decides to buy one, right? And then she goes to the range and shoots it and she's like, Good God Almighty, this is a terrible experience and this is painful and this isn't fun and why does anybody like to do this anyway and then never shoots it again, maybe carries it, maybe doesn't, who knows? But there's a problem here which should be pretty apparent. Okay, let's start at the basics. New shooters don't know how to manage recoil very well by nature of being new shooters, okay? Secondly, you're going to take a air weight revolver which is known for their heavy recoil, their difficulty to aim and their difficulty to use that carries maybe five or five, maybe six rounds and you're going to give that to someone who's never shot before. This is the definition of stupid. I have no idea where this started but it needs to stop. Stop selling revolvers to new female shooters. It's a terrible idea. Physics, okay? For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction so as the bullet exits the barrel all that energy is going to get translated and pushed back to you in the shooter. If the gun has a lot of mass it's able to absorb more of that velocity before it really moves into your hand, right? If it doesn't have very much mass in the case of air weight revolvers all of that velocity gets translated directly into your hand and is physically painful to shoot, not hard, not hard to grasp this concept. So again, don't know where this trend started. Don't know why it still exists but we need to stop doing that. If you want to start someone new on shooting start them on a .22 or you can start them on something like a full size 9 like a Glock 17 or even like a Beretta 92 would be really good. Those absorb recoil really well or 19-11-9 something that's going to absorb that recoil really well so they can learn what they're doing before they have to worry about these things. I don't shoot stub nose revolvers very much. I suck at shooting them as a result. It has a very short sight radius and again you're only having maybe five rounds in the thing before you have to dump it and then stick five more bullets in there. Conversely when this is out of bullets I take a box out, I put a box in and I can keep partying. All I want us to do is shoot real guns. Okay? So that's it. That's my public service announcement. Thank you for bearing with me on this rant. If you're going to buy your girlfriend or your wife a gun don't buy them a crappy stub nose revolver. Buy them an actual gun that they will enjoy shooting so they can learn how to shoot effectively so that if their time comes they'll save their life. Do brave deeds and endure.