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Posted on 06/10/2022 10:24:10 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
5 Reasons Why You Need A Revolver
People like me - 77 years old and arthritic, cannot even BEGIN to rack a Glock barehanded due to the necessarily strong recoil springs. This is true of ALL striker-fired pistols, because the recoil springs have to cock the striker as well as return the slide to battery.
I can just barely rack hammer-fired guns like the 1911 or the various Walther clones. (I do own a Beretta 92.) My lady-friend (also 77) can’t even do that one.
Therefor my first choice for carry is a S&W Model 60, and the bedside gun is a 686.
I get soooo fed up with Glock arrogators who sneer at revolver shooters, given that THEIR choice of handguns have fairly light trigger pulls but don’t even have a safety, leaving them prone to all sorts of negligent discharge scenarios, including three-year-old who kill their mothers with one. DON’T tell me that silly little lever in the trigger is a safety! A SAFETY prevents the gun from firing even when the trigger is pulled.
Never mind the painful task of filling magazines. I don’t need a tool to load any of my revolvers.
My Beretta won’t feed certain bullet nose shapes. I’m sure this is true of Glocks and clones, too, whereas I can and do shoot any sort of ammo from my Smiths.
Not to mention that a revolver can shoot reduced loads, even the “cat-sneeze” variety, as well as shot loads for snake defense.
Give me a beautiful precision-made Smith or Colt. Even a piece of farm machinery marked Ruger beats a plastic semi-auto every time.
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I ran well over 50K rounds through my first one and it never missed a beat—it got better with time and use, changed springs, polished everything inside and its was far more accurate than expected.
Tip-—take you new ones, partially disassemble and pack it full of polishing compound and dry fire it for hours then disassemble and clean, it works wonders.
” you don’t want a revolver (and how do you conceal speed loaders?) to confront a mob. “
Odd thing about mobs. They do what they do because it’s fun. It takes careful deliberate training to get soldiers and Marines to suppress the desire to not get shot and to advance on someone shooting at them. It’s unnatural as hell.
With a mob, the minute someone shoots any of them, the fun instantly ceases and it’s a human stampede the other direction. There are very very few examples of “he only has 5 more shots (maybe) and there are 50 of us, lets all charge him!”.
I had my daughter take the same kind of class. I gave her a S&W 686 and carry bag and quick loaders for it for the class. Like your daughter’s experience, the instructor smiled.
She was the best shot in all the class. I’ve taken her to the range afterwards and she’s beaten the pants off anybody at the range at the time with whatever at the maximum extent of the range. A real dead-eye. Steady hands, a good eye and a relatively decent barrel length (e.g., 6 inches) on a decent revolver in first-shot SA mode is hard to beat.
The dog in the house is to wake you up telling you to protect him. That gives you time to get the revolver and prepare for that first shot.
He was deadpan wasn’t he?
“take responsibility for my performance at the range, and that’s just not something I’m willing to do.”
LOL
“I liked slow to load single action firearms. That is, until the 1968 riots.”
Jeff Cooper took a SAA 45 into the Pacific in WWII. Said it nearly got him killed and he finally realized the benefit of the 1911.
There is something about their profile that makes them easier to pocket carry. Which I would still do if I hadn't lost mine in that unfortunate boating accident.
If I can't run fast enough that an assailant gets close enough to make me have to draw, .38SPL hollow points will probably work just fine.
“4) Beretta 92. Doesn’t get any sexier”
That is indeed a real purty gun.
But I prefer the Beretta 94 in nickel with walnut handles, specifically the version put out by Browning with the slide cover. (Browning BDA 380).
You don’t need “a” revolver, you need several!
.22, .38/.357, ..41 Mag, 44 Mag, 45 Colt, .454 Casull...
Single action, double action, blued, stainless, black powder...
There’s so much diversity to celebrate!
“People like me - 77 years old and arthritic, cannot even BEGIN to rack a Glock barehanded due to the necessarily strong recoil springs. This is true of ALL striker-fired pistols, because the recoil springs have to cock the striker as well as return the slide to battery.
I can just barely rack hammer-fired guns like the 1911 or the various Walther clones. (I do own a Beretta 92.) My lady-friend (also 77) can’t even do that one.”
I hear you, I’m almost there, too.
When I bought my youngest her college graduation gift (a handgun, of course), she wanted a semi-automatic but one that she could “handle.” That meant relatively low recoil, and one she was physically able to rack. She liked my Ruger Model I and Model II, but they were a bit too large for concealed carry, so we settled on the Beretta Tomcat. It’s 32 caliber, concealable, and has a pop-up barrel so that the first round can be inserted by hand into the chamber, avoiding having to rack it. Can do it in the dark, to boot, solely by feel. Then it’s SA or DA for the first shot, and SA thereafter for the rest of the magazine. It has checkered walnut handles, so it feels good in the hand and doesn’t slip any while shooting. They is a 22LR version, too, the Beretta Bobcat, and either is concealable and effective for self-defense for a woman.
Have you ever shot a Ruger Alaskan? Shooting a major caliber revolver with a 2.5” barrel is quite the experience.
A ruger LCP (.380) with a squared off rigid pocket holster doesn’t imprint the gun shape at all—looks like a small wallet, at most—and the slim semi-auto shape makes it easy to draw. A wheelgun, even with short barrel, tends to be bulky in the pocket, in my experience.
That's my go to gun except mine is a two inch. The most reliable hand gun I own.
Especially if it’s a fully automatic Glock revolver shooting 9 inch bullets that will rip your lungs out.
“Meanwhile in the actual world of defensive use..... Bang. And rarely, “bang bang”.”
Sure. Many self-defense encounters don’t even begin with a bang. Just the presence of a weapon is enough to stop the attack. And there is certainly a subset of defensive shootings that is just 1 or 2 shots, so cylinder size or magazine size wouldn’t matter (a .357 derringer would work). But that’s what I saw mostly occurring 30 years ago. Today, it’s more like 3-4 hoodlums attacking you in your car or in your home, each with a semi-auto pistol or rifle and firing multiple times (mostly without aiming). I want the extra firepower I get from my HKp30 with 15-round mag, 1 in the chamber, and a holster with another 15-round mag, and I assure you, I will be aiming. Shot placement and number of rounds is the key, so whatever you’re most comfortable with is the answer.
These democrat clowns think mags come preloaded from the factory and you throw them away when they’re empty.
My M&P/R9 357 has eight. I love that gun.
Love, love, love my Snubbie Dan Wesson.
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