Simply the best edc solution. The characteristics of a modern DA revolver are the result of 75 years of wide experimentation resulting in a handgun not for experts, but for normal human beings. For many years, years in which criminals frequently carried semiautos, law enforcement carried revolvers. They didn't loose many gunfights, certainly no more than today and had fewer negligent discharges and unintentional shootings. This at a time when range time was considered optional and guns remained in holsters for years with little maintenance. Oh, and the record for rapid fire of a handgun is still held by a revolver.
CC a small revolver - why?
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.308 Norma
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Me too.
entropy
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Because I grew up around cops, (my Dad was one) in the era were they carried revolvers on and off-duty. (there was the odd PPK..)
Panzerschwein
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When I carried a S&W 642, it was for the simplicity and reliability of it all. But then I met the Makarov PM, and have since sold my revolver. I feel much better armed with nine rounds of 9x18mm with a quick reload over the five rounds of .38 special with a slow reload. And, the reliability of my trusty PM had been stellar, which is par for the course with these guns.
With all that being said, I wouldn't feel at all unarmed with my old J-frame... I've just... moved on from it is all.
With all that being said, I wouldn't feel at all unarmed with my old J-frame... I've just... moved on from it is all.
Ttexastom
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Like a snubbie, have a taurus 85, in 38 special, and sp101 in 357 mag. Both guns get wadcutters with wide meplats. The 38 gets a 125 grain, the 357 gets a 160 grain wadcutter. These bullets will penetrate very well. Have shot deer carcusses with both with full penetration. Have a semi-auto glock model 30. The thirty is what i carry in high crime areas with a belly band holster, with one of these revolvers as a back-up.
Blacksmoke
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Because they work just about all the time.
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How do you like the Pachmayr Diamond Pro Grips vs the stock grips?
RealGun
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Just about every time I go to the range there is someone there struggling with a new "cute" semi-auto. Cheap, steel case ammo doesn't help. Some women shooters are impressive in their ability, but usually I see them struggling with the DA trigger and certainly in racking the slide, trying to keep the gun pointed down range. DA/SA guns, especially revolvers, allow them to gravitate to the easier trigger pull of single action. In that scenario the little lightweight revolvers as big as 38 Special are not the answer either, because store bought ammo is typically too powerful for more than a few rounds in a tiny gun with no mass to it. The 32 SWL revolver would be the better intro to shooting, once past the confidence in a 22.
I would like the option of the flatter semi-auto but it would have to entail a gun and ammo combination that was proven reliable. My smallest semi is a Kahr PM40 that goes bang every time, even once when firing as fast as I could in an IDPA bug gun round. I didn't hit anything, try it sometime, but there was no problem with the gun, already well used when I bought it and refitted with new springs and slide release.
Blacksmoke
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I looked at one of those just before I bought something else. Maybe I should have.
Nice piece.
Nice piece.
Cocked & Locked
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Why? Because some small revolvers can shoot big bullets.
FWIW never saw a sprung crane on a semi auto (sometimes things get dropped or people fall down).
Never happened to me.
Liked my old M60 Smith w bobbed hammer.
But my two carry rigs now are semi autos.
Wouldn't mind a 340 PD if one comes along at a smokin' price.
Never happened to me.
Liked my old M60 Smith w bobbed hammer.
But my two carry rigs now are semi autos.
Wouldn't mind a 340 PD if one comes along at a smokin' price.
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