My wife got into pistol shooting about 5 years ago. Before that she never shot a handgun. She saw a Bond Arms Snake Slayer IV 38/357 caliber and liked the way it felt and how solid made it was so I bought it for her. I liked the gun so much I just recently bought one but in 45/410 which was a knuckle buster for me when shooting defensive loads, so I sold the barrel and bought a 38/357 also which works out nice because our revolvers are the same caliber. Now we enjoy the variety of available loads for that caliber and the derringers not only conceal well they shoot equally as well as our other guns. The fun part is seeing how intimidating this is when other people see us shoot it.