[Myrddin]

My wife handles a 1911 just fine. She prefers the single stack P225 Sig in 9mm. The double stack mag models are too fat. As for recoil aversion...she handles the Ruger .454 Casull with Corbon 300 gr at 1500 gps/1500 ft-lbs muzzle energy just fine. She doesn't care for the N frame S&W 629 because the reach from fingertip to the web of her hand is such that the Hogue MonoGrip nibbles flesh off the joint at the base of her thumb. L frames are just fine.

[1035rep]

The Ruger .454 Casull with Corbon 300 would be comparable to shooting a VW out of a cannon