You can get a lot of training value out of a sub $100 CO2 BB pistol.
Practice your grip, draw, presentation, sight alignment and trigger press in your backyard anytime you want without paying for ammo and range time.
The only thing you can't practice is recoil management.
But the recoil management is what makes me cry š
Thatās where good firearm selection comes into play.
Recoil is physics: force accelerating a mass.
One variable is weight of the gun: more mass, less āfelt recoilā.
Another is bullet caliber. If .22 is the most recoil you can tolerate, so be it. It is better than nothing and at least ammo is super cheap so you can practice a lot.
If you can tolerate a .380, thatās the next common caliber step up in terms of power and recoil. A lot of people who arenāt ok with a ton of recoil will go with .380 for that reason.
9mm is a little bit more than .380 but not much.
When you start getting into .40, 10mm, .45, etc. youāll get much bigger bumps up in terms of felt recoil so steer clear of those.
Thank you so much for the guidance š„° one day!
