so a friend and I were having an ATF party last night and as I was switching for my right to my left hand with my nearly 10 year old Taurus g2c, I had switched over to my right hand as I am ... shall we say a switch.. and I managed to get a pretty serious cut on my thumb just above the bottom joints, I can actually see the tendon thank God it did not ever or Nick the tendon.. obviously very embarrassing, I have not had a firearms accident nearly 30 years...

oddly, it seems there are quite a few people who have ran into this with the c as well as other compact firearms that do not have a rather large beaver tail

part of the issue, perhaps the largest part of the issue, was a switching from right to left and getting a little cocky

the other part is, there really is not a lot of room for error on a compact pistol a fraction of an inch upward from where your thumb should be and you're causing some serious damage

interestingly enough when my wife and I were dating I took her shooting, and this would have been nearly 10 years ago.. and her first time shooting a pistol would have been this very g2c... and she managed to catch the wedding between her some inner pointer finger.. not nearly as serious of an injury as I got..

the good news is, my buddy and I are both very well prepared for injuries.. we applied pressure to it brought my hand above my head and got the bleeding to stop in less than 10 minutes.. I could tell the adrenaline was pumping pretty good because I dumped rubbing alcohol on it and it did not hurt at all ... once the adrenaline slowed down the rubbing alcohol was a little more fun as you can imagine

anyway.. I could have dressed the wound myself but it was much easier to have him do it, then I drove myself to the ER, they confirmed that there was no damage to the tendon.. the doctor said less than a millimeter more and it would have undoubtedly severed the tendon it was rather interesting to look into one's body and see the tendon doing its thing.. the doctor also commented that he was impressed with how deep it was and the fact that we were able to stop the bleeding so quickly part of that was that I arched my thumb backward to push the cut back together while it was being dressed and held it in that position while driving to the emergency room

I actually do have everything necessary to sew it up.. however for whatever reason that is not in my truck today only my basic med kit is

now that I've babbled for some time I'm thinking about getting another pistol and leaving this one to somebody else with smaller hands.. any suggestions on something that is more full size, probably not much more than $400.. and ideally that has some good separation between my fingers and the slide.. or at least a nice beaver tail to keep me from being an idiot?