"With a DAO revolver you don't have to remember if one is in the chamber or how do you get the safety off. You pick it up, point it at the bad guy and squeeze the trigger."
I agree 100%. I've been shooting semiautomatics for decades, so it's second nature to me. For someone who basically never shoots, a revolver is more intuitive, IMHO.
My buddy and I take our daughters shooting with us sometimes, if they want to go along. (They usually get bored after 90 minutes or so, then they chit-chat and play with their phones while he and I finish up our normal two hours.) They've both been able to easily shoot a full-sized 38 special since they were 11 or so... I think it was more like ten. My daughter dislikes recoil and didn't want to try a 38, which was fine with me - I never pushed her to shoot anything she didn't feel like shooting. But when her friend shot 38's out of her dad's Model 66, my daughter was NOT going to be shown up and immediately wanted to try it, too. After a cylinder, she looked at me and shrugged and said it was no big deal. She's been shooting them ever since.
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