Switched to a revolver for ccw...

Didnt this argument just go round about 4 pages ago?

There are dozens of real life shooting videos on YouTube. There are dedicated YouTube channels filled with content of actual shootings. There are TV shows like for one example, The First 48, where shootings/homicides and the details thereof are shown. There are details of shootings posted in the media. A couple of members in this thread were able to post details and recounts multiple self defense shootings were the shooter emptied their magazine. All these altercation seem to have been made public. All these altercation are being used to support the argument against revolvers. However, when pressed about citing the cases where a revolver wasn't enough, all of a sudden "that information isn't public", it's not "compiled" ANYWHERE, and if it was, that information wouldn't prove anything. Decades to this present day of people carrying revolvers, a lot of assertions being made about how they are inefficient, and the revolver related data to back that up is being hidden from the public and media. Heck, even the two respected people in the industry were only able to point to cases, mostly L.E. shootings, where mags were emptied, but even they couldn't or didn't supply any examples were a revolver wasn't enough..

At this point, we'll just have to carry what we feel comfortable with and agree to disagree.

I'm heading into my first summer with a CC permit and picked up a Kimber K6S... I liked the sites, the extra round, and the lack of internal lock. I feel perfectly comfortable with 6 rounds for daily carry but I admit if I can dress for it and I'm going somewhere public with a large crowd that I think could be a potential target for a mass shooter situation, I switch to higher capacity. Sad in this day and age that I have to think of a downtown festival or show opening as a more vulnerable situation.

SCMikeyP said:

I'm heading into my first summer with a CC permit and picked up a Kimber K6S... I liked the sites, the extra round, and the lack of internal lock. I feel perfectly comfortable with 6 rounds for daily carry but I admit if I can dress for it and I'm going somewhere public with a large crowd that I think could be a potential target for a mass shooter situation, I switch to higher capacity. Sad in this day and age that I have to think of a downtown festival or show opening as a more vulnerable situation.

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Yep. Lcr 38/357 or 9mm around the house and yard or by myself at lowes etc. G26 or p365 out and about with the family when going into crowds.

SCMikeyP said:

I'm heading into my first summer with a CC permit and picked up a Kimber K6S... I liked the sites, the extra round, and the lack of internal lock. I feel perfectly comfortable with 6 rounds for daily carry but I admit if I can dress for it and I'm going somewhere public with a large crowd that I think could be a potential target for a mass shooter situation, I switch to higher capacity. Sad in this day and age that I have to think of a downtown festival or show opening as a more vulnerable situation.

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Yeah, I'd been looking for a snubbie, and wasn't liking what I saw, till the K6S. Everything you want, nothing you don't. IMO, well worth a couple hundred extra, but this is my only snub-nose. The trigger is incredible. Also, as a revolver, you can carry a couple rounds of ratshot, for pest control, around the farm. If you're going out on the property, then into town, you don't have to change guns.

Kleanbore said:

Why the difference?

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Preference. Sometimes just cause. Pocket carry vs not, heat, cold, dust, mood, end of the world scenarios, etc etc etc.

I find I usually carry the semi-auto anywhere I anticipate the possibility of multiple attackers or terrorism events where I have no fallback (as opposed to home).

I prefer the revolver for appendix carry which is most comfortable for me.

Ahhh yes, the semi vs revolver round count rabbit hole. The thread that never dies, just reincarnates itself with the right post.

first rule; have a gun. second rule; know how to use it. third rule; hit what your aiming at.

My favorite carry revolver, Colt Detective Special.

I just bought more magazines. I hate buying more magazines.

sparkyfender

Great choice! Nice holster to carry it in too!

Thanks, bannockburn!

I daily carry a S&W 386. 7 round alloy pistol in 357. It is the same as the snub 686 only 10 oz lighter. For range use I shoot regular 38's and for carry I use the Federal Hydra-Shock +P+. I've carried and owned the S&W model 36 for almost 50 years. There is a comfort factor knowing the pistol will go bang with every pull of the trigger.

My two favorite carry guns are the Sig 365, and a Ruger LCR in 9mm. Both conceal about equally well in an IWB holster, even under a t-shirt. The LCR is lighter and the contours seem to make it just a little less likely to print than the Sig. But the Sig holds double (or more) the number of rounds. I love them both.

How about a Colt Agent????? Late model with park finish and shrouded yoke and Secret Service grips. .38 Federal personal Protection rounds to preclude overkill liability with +P Le ammo

Jeb Stuart said:

I just bought more magazines. I hate buying more magazines.

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Me too.....

paulsj said:

Me too.....
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Now that is funny! But so true.

Jeb Stuart said:

Now that is funny! But so true.

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The only reason I have good number is I don't have to waste time at the range loading rounds into few mags. I simply bring in bunch of preloaded magazines.

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For me, it boils down to what works. I shoot and 1911 in our little matches. Otherwise, it's a Glock of one sort or another. I like and enjoy and shoot revolvers. Just for the heck of it took a five screw S&W 38 Special Combat Masterpiece to the match. It was an awful experience. For the sake of everyone involved it would be much better for me to stick with the G23.4. I'm on the hunt for a G29.4. Those things are hard to beat.

Random thoughts:

No one that has shot more than a handful of practical pistol matches or take a few advanced self-defense class would think a revolver offers any technological advantage over a semi auto.

Two shooter of equal skill at a practical pistol match; the one shooting the semi auto beats the revolver shooter an overwhelming amount of the time.

For a given amount of time in training or practice the average shooter will achieve greater proficiency with a semi auto then the revolver. Everything with a revolver takes a bit more practice and finesse to master than similar actions/skills with a semi auto.

There is no measurable reliability difference between modern reputable brands of semi-autos or revolvers. Reliability is IMHO at best a secondary if not trinary selection criteria.

Capacity is King and revolvers ain't got it.

The latest and greatest tactical Tupperware or wide body CZ is no substitution for dedicated practice. I see that everytime I run my revolver at a USPSA or IDPA match. I rarely finish out of the top 25% in the over all standing despite being the only guy silly enough to run the round gun. Conversely I am still usually only 70-80% of the score of the guys with equal classification in PPC, Open, Limited or Carry-Optic Division Did I mention capacity is King?

I still CCW, woods-carry, compete and hunt with a revolver. I just don't delude myself into thinking my hardware is the best choice. I train accordingly...

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Some hideouts

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Ya need a little North American Mini to go with that nice collection.

Other than the tribal matches, I shoot auto's less than revolvers. The documentary on the Miami shootout showed an agent trying to load a revolver one handed after he was wounded. Carry what one can use best.