Can I rain on the parade?
Too bulky, too slow reload and low round count in the cylinder...at least compared to a semi-auto.
Revolvers generally contour to the human body better than most semi-autos. Ammo capacity is an advantage for the SA but it’s super low on my list of priorities. Unless you carry for professional reasons your chances of needing to fire your gun, much less needing more than the 2 rounds that is the average discharged in civilian self defense emergencies is so low it’s just not something I worry over. Reloading is a fair point. But again, gun fights are not resolved by who runs out of bullets first. They are won by who can put their rounds on target first. On my list of things I look for when considering a weapon for self defense ammo capacity, to the extent its on my list, is near the bottom.
Slower to reload -
Good point too. Low round count doesn’t nother me, I plan to omly need one...any time I need more than 2 rounds, I’m drunk or shooting at a frickin’ bear...
Never jams.
My Glocks are 100% reliable so far, at roughly the 500 and 700 round count ...
Yeah, we all know. You always need to be ready for a squad of Al Qeida frogmen to burst out of a manhole cover so you need 17 rounds on tap and another mag or two for a spare. But in the real world of CCW shootings, it’s 3 shots or less, in very close, and over in about 2 or 3 seconds.
Way less than 1% of CCW shooting involve a reload. And if they do, a trained person is just as fast with a speedloader as you are with a magazine change. In some cases just a shade faster.
And the most important rule of the day is simplicity and reliability.
Carry what you want, but a revolver is just fine for CCW edc.
Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Fact: A victim may have a strong reluctance to talk to a government agent about a firearm brandishing incident (which are 98% of DGUs) because they may not know the act was 100% legal.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 83.
In other words, according to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes, 98%+ of the time without a shot being fired.
Which means that 98%+ of the time none of those things you mentioned matter.
“too slow reload”
I’m not sure reloading is a concern with personal defense.
Yep! However efficient enough to make millions for Clint E.... {:-)
I often wondered how many times you need more than 6 or eight rounds in a self defense situation.
I only have eight in my 1911.
9mm on moonclips reload pretty quick. Not like jamming in a 17 rd mag, but not bad with practice.
Its six sure shots. No jamming by an average shooter under high stress which is what most people are in a real gunfight.