Hawk
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Revolvers are, at least for the moment, apparently exempt from the microstamping madness. I expect a pretty good spike in sales in California in the not too distant future. Who knows? Maybe microstamping will do for the wheelgun what the '94 magazine capacity restrictions did for single stack .45s.
They're definitely already the right choice for those who shoot them better than semis or for those that keep waking up in the middle of the night worrying over their semi's next show-stopping glitch. It simply wouldn't do to not have confidence in one's choice of weapon.
But.
Reliability - enh. If they tie up less often, they tie up better. Most of my wheelgun jams have taken a fair amount of time to clear. Not to be confused with "tap rack bang".
Simplicity - feh. Open one up. As the other poster noted, get the Kuhnhausen manual - I did. It's interesting.
Shoot from pocket. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done and the former does not necessarily an "advantage" make. If it's too close (moderately tight jeans, say) you get to, at once, get off a shot as likely as not to take out your own femoral artery and / or simultaneously cut and cauterize parts you'd rather keep from cylinder / barrel blast. If it's in a James Bond trench coat and aimed, it's held far enough from the body you probably look like an asymmetrical Batman and will likely be answering a lot of pointed questions about why you fired from concealment rather than drawing and possibly benefiting from the deterrent factor we're constantly yammering about.
Semi pushed out of battery - this, I submit is about as likely as body contact resulting in the cylinder getting jammed up with a load of belly-button lint, rendering the thing inoperable. Miscellaneous pocket detritus getting between the cylinder and top strap is pretty effective at ending the festivities.
Revolvers have advantages. Some, I submit, are more far-fetched than they need to be.
I'll grant this may simply be a failure of imagination on my part.
They're definitely already the right choice for those who shoot them better than semis or for those that keep waking up in the middle of the night worrying over their semi's next show-stopping glitch. It simply wouldn't do to not have confidence in one's choice of weapon.
But.
Reliability - enh. If they tie up less often, they tie up better. Most of my wheelgun jams have taken a fair amount of time to clear. Not to be confused with "tap rack bang".
Simplicity - feh. Open one up. As the other poster noted, get the Kuhnhausen manual - I did. It's interesting.
Shoot from pocket. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done and the former does not necessarily an "advantage" make. If it's too close (moderately tight jeans, say) you get to, at once, get off a shot as likely as not to take out your own femoral artery and / or simultaneously cut and cauterize parts you'd rather keep from cylinder / barrel blast. If it's in a James Bond trench coat and aimed, it's held far enough from the body you probably look like an asymmetrical Batman and will likely be answering a lot of pointed questions about why you fired from concealment rather than drawing and possibly benefiting from the deterrent factor we're constantly yammering about.
Semi pushed out of battery - this, I submit is about as likely as body contact resulting in the cylinder getting jammed up with a load of belly-button lint, rendering the thing inoperable. Miscellaneous pocket detritus getting between the cylinder and top strap is pretty effective at ending the festivities.
Revolvers have advantages. Some, I submit, are more far-fetched than they need to be.
I'll grant this may simply be a failure of imagination on my part.