I second the 22 myself. The issue is not recoil so much as amount of practice rounds can put through the gun for training. Of all the firearms, a handgun is by far the most difficult to become proficient with. A used Glock runs $350 for a police turn in and ammo is in the $7+ range for a box of 50. A decent 22 LR such as a S&W 22A or Beretta Neos runs around $200 and one can buy well over 5000 rounds for another $150 dollars. This gives a person a lot of opportunity to work on stance, grip, sight alignment, trigger squeeze, and follow through to name a few. The triggers on most decent 22 handguns are pretty good, much better than about any double action or striker I've fired. I've run many first timers through basic handgun training and starting with a 22 LR prevented many bad habits from forming (it also allows one to firmly entrench bad habits through repetition too). I've also found it to be very beneficial in correcting many bad habits picked up from the range, even the police academy pistol course.
This is very similar to teaching shotgunning too, one does not start a newcomer off using Winchester Super Sports or even 3 dram Heavy Target loads. Instead, a much better way is to use something like the 1 oz Win Xtra-Lites so the shooter can concentrate more upon the mechanics of what they are doing than worry about getting smacked in the chops. If a handgun had the versatility in loads a shotgun has I'd probably think otherwise but unfortunately it doesn't.
Also, intelligence has little to do with it, it is the willingness to receive instruction that matters. Mostly the "least intelligent" have it in spades over the Mensa group with those falling in between in ''smarts'' are often the worst; too smart to just follow directions but not smart enough to realize how little they know. I hate teaching the latter and unfortunately most "normal" males seem to fall into that category.
This is very similar to teaching shotgunning too, one does not start a newcomer off using Winchester Super Sports or even 3 dram Heavy Target loads. Instead, a much better way is to use something like the 1 oz Win Xtra-Lites so the shooter can concentrate more upon the mechanics of what they are doing than worry about getting smacked in the chops. If a handgun had the versatility in loads a shotgun has I'd probably think otherwise but unfortunately it doesn't.
Also, intelligence has little to do with it, it is the willingness to receive instruction that matters. Mostly the "least intelligent" have it in spades over the Mensa group with those falling in between in ''smarts'' are often the worst; too smart to just follow directions but not smart enough to realize how little they know. I hate teaching the latter and unfortunately most "normal" males seem to fall into that category.
