I notice now most of us older guys (50+)

19 and i would rather have a working revolver vs a jammed auto

I have owned and fired, sometimes a lot, quite a few handguns. I have to say that I have had more failures (feed, extract, etc.) with autoloaders than with revolvers.

But the only two completely disabling breakages I have had have been with revolvers. One was a broken hammer pin in an S&W Chiefs Special (pre- Model 36). The other was a hammer in a Colt OP that broke completely off at the thin part. Both tied up the guns until I got spare parts and replaced the broken ones.

Still, on balance, I will take a quality revolver for reliability any day.

Jim

I'll take anything I can aim and make go Boom at my age these days.

The younguns dont know what easy is. In my day you ate paper, spit it out, blew powder down the bore and hoped you remembered to take the rammer back out after loading shot. After a day of shoot and smoke we're happy.

Im beginning to hit that point in life where those young ones have to have hit movies explained to them. I had one recently tilt the head and asked who and what sort of act I was doing when I imitated the "I'll be Back" from the Movie Ternimator.

But down at the VA, I hear the whispered stories from the Rock and Sand overseas from those half my age and barely out of learning school. As far as Im concerned they are Men and Women now. But with a future much different than what we faced during the old Cold War...


"We will bury you." Kruschev USSR to the American People on TV in the 60's MAN, that was living!

I'm 51 and I don't even own a revolver (not yet) but I do have 4 semi autos!

I'm 51 and I don't even own a revolver (not yet) but I do have 4 semi autos!

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I'm 30 and have 7 revolvers and 1 auto.

Point made! You're but a kid! 51? Old enough to vote, I suppose.

I'm 29 and I carry a pre-37 Airweight everyday. Several years of lugging a SIG P-220 around got old.

As to why one would pay as much for a Ruger as a Glock

19 and i would rather have a working revolver vs a jammed auto

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True, but working ALWAYS beats jammed. I'd take a working pellet gun over a busted M14/M16.

I'm 56 and have 4 revolvers and 3 semi-autos.IIRC. And I remember Nikita Krushev pounding his shoe on the podium at the U.N. screaming NYET,NYET,NYET!

600+ bucks for a model 10 is insane

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A Model 10 is a novelty gun in 2009. I have one, but it's one of the guns I don't have a holster for if that says anything. It's a neat old thing; I even replaced the aftermarket Pachmayrs that were on it with original-style wood service grips. But I didn't get it for serious use. My excuse for getting it was that it would be a good, smooth gun to teach my wife DA shooting; a major motivating factor was that it's a traditional hand-ejector-style Smith that didn't cost me a grand.

Smith's prices are getting high, but talk to a store owner. The things are hard to get and easy to sell right now. This is not exactly a normal time in the gun biz.

WRT guys over 50, I'm 43 but I've always preferred revolvers. I do have some autos, one hi-cap nightstand gun. But I can't get excited about autos. When I've bought an auto over the years, it's because I had a reason. I've bought revolvers because they were there.

Still, there's no point in discussing the merits of various IPAs with a guy who doesn't understand why you'd pay for anything more than PBR. There's no point in trying to explain the point of a good Meritage to a wino half-passed-out on the corner with a bottle of Boone's Farm.

You said the guy is "a kid". He, too, will probably grow into more refined tastes. Most people do

I think after 50, we get enough miles on us and experience behind us that we realize what good is and what Hollywood is. I'm not saying semi's are a bad thing(I have one and like it.) It's just a style/fad, kinda like bellbottoms, Beatle haircuts and leisure suits. After 50 those fad things become less important and the things that last and work become more important to us. Revolvers seem to fit that bill the best for those of us who appreciate them. That being said, it comes down to what makes yer boat float at different times in ones life.

I guess I'm a kid at 28, but my Dad has seen his 60s and he told me that a revolver "naturally points better than a semi-auto". If you practice point of vision or reflex shooting you already know that.

Latigo

As a young kid wet behind the ears, Pop used to take me out to the old quarry on Black Canyon Highway, I was in awe at the big guns the older guys were shooting , 'cause I only had my Remington 511 Target Master.

The number 38 had a special ring to it, and it also caused the same sensation in my ears, it was a whopping 16 of those things called calibers bigger than my 22 , and most of the 38's had SIX shots before they had to reload.

Then one guy showed up with a bigger 38, it looked like the same gun Hoppy had two of, hanging from his silver conchoed belt, and these 38's Pop said were called 45's. That was over twice the size of my 22 , and he could shoot 5 times before he had to reload. Pop said they didn't make any bigger than that, so those 38s that had six shots didn't have any thing over on the 45. I vowed then and there , one day I would own one of those 45s.

I found out later in life that there were bigger 38s even bigger than 45s and they could shoot a whole bunch more times without reloading.

Single action coyboy thumbusters or double action service revolvers , wheel guns are the real handguns .

I've shot a fair number of rounds in competition. A couple of different 1911's in IPSC and several different single actions in SASS. As with Mr. Keenan, I had multiple malfunctions in the 1911s, but was always able to clear and finish the stage. I had two stainless Ruger Vaqueros in .45 Colt go south within days of each other. One had a broken hammer plunger spring, the other a broken hand.

Revolvers just shoot better, and I don't have to crawl on the ground for my brass.

Spray and Pray is a failing of the shooter, not the gun. It can and does happen with revolvers too.

I (young guy by the standards of this thread) have both. Revolvers are good for brass preservation, high power levels, and variable loadings. Semi-autos are good for consistent shooting of low to moderate power cartridges in an easily concealable package. Yeah, there are exceptions, but a 1911 is more easily concealed than a Webley, a P3AT is more easily concealed than a S&W 37. A 4" barrel service semi-auto (glock, etc) is more easily concealed than a 4" barrel S&W 10.

For a day of recreation I'll take the revolver. For a day of training I'll take the semi-auto. For a fight I'll take both if I can.

Oh yeah... That's another thing.

Brass chasing is no fun.

Reloading has nearly killed my interest in shooting centerfire semiautos.

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I agree with you about the practical uses of the semiauto.

That does bring me to another thing though... 10mm fans... Going on about their great cartridge that's almost as powerful as mid-range modern revolver rounds.

Each gun has its place. I think that you nailed it with what I quoted. Semiauto-only shooters don't seem to understand that, though.

Hmmmm... a bit of stereotyping... 29 Here, and a fan of the old pencil barrel model 10, Ruger Vaquero, Charter 3" Bulldog, etc. Yes we younguns sometimes have a proclivity for wheel guns....

I bet I had 45 centerfire semi auto handguns, and only one (1) would eat whatever I fed it wiithout jamming - a Sig P230 in pipsqueak 380. I have zero left.
I grew up playing cowboys and Indians, not mall ninjas and hoodlums or CIA and terrorists. I read too much Jeff Cooper.

Why do people keep saying they don't have to pick up brass from a revolver? The brass from my revolvers goes all over the place and I end up stepping on it.

I grew up playing cowboys and Indians, not mall ninjas and hoodlums or CIA and terrorists. I read too much Jeff Cooper.

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That just made my evening, and most likely cost me a new keyboard... Coffee and keyboards tend to not get along well.