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I am a small woman with small hands and I prefer a colt 45 with a short barrel(officer's) and short trigger. I find I have less recoil with the shorter barrel length in 45 than with a 9mm. A trick I learned about racking the slide. I hold the slide steady with my left hand and push the gun forward with my right hand. I find is much easier and quicker than pulling the slide back. I am a right handed shooter so a left hander would need to reverse the above. Try it and I think you will find that is easier to rack the gun rather than the slide.

Good luck to your wife and I welcome another woman shooter. If possible before you decide let her try a short barrel Colt 45 or something built on that frame with the short trigger and I think that you will find that it will be a great fit for a small hand. I can even manager a double stack para-ordance 45. Hope this helps.

"... I am a small woman with small hands and I prefer a colt 45 with a short barrel(officer's) and short trigger."

My kinda gal.

Carol, leave the 9mms alone and get the .45 ACP model of whatever you prefer. The Sig you tested is going to be hard to beat, I think. Sigs have the best stock sight-picture and natural 'pointability' out of the box over any other pistol.

Like hd5574, I have a M1911-A1 Government clone. It's a 1990-vintage Springfield Armory with no modifications on it except for a 3.5 pound trigger and the 1911 original-style (straight-backed) mainspring housing.

However, if I were to buy another pistol now to *replace* my 1911-A1, it would certainly be a Sig-Sauer .45 ACP.

As far as throwing knives are concerned, I can't recommend them. I *do* have some well-balanced throwing bricks for sale that are quite a lot more effective.

Become and expert with them, and 'one-shot-stops' are commonplace, particularly from behind.