You're one lucky guy, Chuck. As the others, I think fit and soft-recoil is the ticket at this stage. Don't even think of an other-purposes gun. It's game-over when you take the fun out of it; the fire can be taken out but never put back in. You know more than I about this but would an o/u be better than a sxs, say an SKB 20ga. Model 500. It's all she would ever need.