Rice,
Riffe MT1 will be good for a lady, just like Don said. What you need is the powerbands to be reduced to 1/2" diameter instead of the typical 9/16", should be much easier to load. Then get 3 of those 1/2" for a MT1 with Hawaiian. My friend's wife shoot a Standard #2 with 1/2" x 4 bands and 9/32 Hawaiian shaft. If the hubby uses the gun, he swap back to 9/16" x 4 bands and the 5/16" shaft with the Ice Pick. In fact the wife loves to hunt more the the hubby, so sometime hubby become the caddy and load the gun for her.......
MT1 size is nice for wrecks . Using 9/32" Hawaiian, there will be almost no recoil even with 3 x 1/2" bands.......but....without the floater wing kit, it will most likely to sink with shaft out. As long as chest loading is done, it is very easy to load this small baby Riffe. I am amazed if you can take a #4 Baja to a wreck, I can only think that many of the fishes are hanging around the outside perimeter of the wrecks.....I won't want to shoot into a wreck with #4 Baja, too much power ( my #4 set up is maxed out ) and too slow to swing for close quater work.
Anyway nice to hear u go hunting with you wife. My wife used to carry my fishes on the stringer for me but now with kids (3), she can't come to hunt with me.....
DON,
Good of you to get your wife to hunt with you....let her know the excitement...
