Hmm.. we took a slo-mo video and it looks like it went straight back all three times.
It’s been mentioned a few times too - what’s a beaver tail?
My hands are pretty small, and I honestly wanted to go with a smaller one, but everyone I talked to recommended the 9mm as a compromise between power and size and home defense.
The beaver tail is the part of the gun that sticks back towards you, above the grip - on the back of the gun, "range guns" tend to have large beavertails, "concealed carry" guns tend to have little or no beaver tails. It prevents the slide from hitting your hand when the slide comes back if you have a proper grip on the gun. If you slide your right hand up as high as it can go on the grip, the webbing of your thumb should be touching the beaver tail.
You can grip anything with enough force to prevent it rotating... but it is EASIER if your grip is higher so that it doesn't have the opportunity to rotate in your hand. As an easy to demonstrate experiment, rack the slide with your left hand and with your right hand hold the gun as high as you can, and then try to rack the slide a second time holding the bottom of the grip.
Currently your thumb is about in line with the middle of the trigger, it should instead by in-line with the bottom of the slide. Your thumb should be higher than the trigger guard.
It's called a beaver tail because it looks like a beaver's tail... it's long and flat and sticks out the back.
(compare where your hand is relative to the slide, versus where this picture shows the person's hands relative to the slide)... a proper grip will make you more accurate AND make the gun feel like it is recoiling less.
edit: oh, one last thing, larger guns have lower recoil because they weigh more, smaller guns kick harder, get the biggest gun in the smallest caliber for the easiest time shooting. The physics isn't complicated, but it is not intuitive for many people who are not used to guns...
Hmm.. we took a slo-mo video and it looks like it went straight back all three times.
It’s been mentioned a few times too - what’s a beaver tail?
My hands are pretty small, and I honestly wanted to go with a smaller one, but everyone I talked to recommended the 9mm as a compromise between power and size and home defense.
Practice. lots. No more advice from internet strangers.
The beaver tail is the part of the gun that sticks back towards you, above the grip - on the back of the gun, "range guns" tend to have large beavertails, "concealed carry" guns tend to have little or no beaver tails. It prevents the slide from hitting your hand when the slide comes back if you have a proper grip on the gun. If you slide your right hand up as high as it can go on the grip, the webbing of your thumb should be touching the beaver tail.
You can grip anything with enough force to prevent it rotating... but it is EASIER if your grip is higher so that it doesn't have the opportunity to rotate in your hand. As an easy to demonstrate experiment, rack the slide with your left hand and with your right hand hold the gun as high as you can, and then try to rack the slide a second time holding the bottom of the grip.
Currently your thumb is about in line with the middle of the trigger, it should instead by in-line with the bottom of the slide. Your thumb should be higher than the trigger guard.
It's called a beaver tail because it looks like a beaver's tail... it's long and flat and sticks out the back.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tkd9x-uhQFE/maxresdefault.jpg
(compare where your hand is relative to the slide, versus where this picture shows the person's hands relative to the slide)... a proper grip will make you more accurate AND make the gun feel like it is recoiling less.
edit: oh, one last thing, larger guns have lower recoil because they weigh more, smaller guns kick harder, get the biggest gun in the smallest caliber for the easiest time shooting. The physics isn't complicated, but it is not intuitive for many people who are not used to guns...