Before we were married, sixty-plus years ago, I bought a brand new `9``-A1 from a mail order outfit and showed it to my bride-to-be. She wanted to shoot it as her father had carried one and shot it a bit during the late unpleasantness (WWII ). We took two boxes of GI hardball and some paper plates to the local sand-bank, and at 15 yards, she kept the whole magazine-full on the plate, while I always had one or more miss. She still shoots with me occasionally, I recently bought her a Rossi M-88 stainless (5-shot, 3" barrel, square butt)
