A large advantage for revolvers

[crestoncowboy]

I have a mouse fart load that will cycle my FNS-40. You can go lower than mouse fart level in a 1911 .45 ACP and still cycle it

I've used "mouse fart" .40 loads in my 10mms for 20 years without a spring change or anything amiss. If anything you benefit more from a stiffer spring to fire real 10mm than you would a weaker spring to fire 40. At least you don't have to walk a county over to find your real 10mm brass with a stronger spring. Lol.

The good thing is that if it’s a mainstream revolver, like a Smith or a Ruger, then more than likely it will be repairable.
With companies pushing out new semiauto models every year, I wonder how easy it would be to find parts for them several years later.

The internals for smith revolvers have changed. Many guns today only look like their 50 year old version. Smith will not even repair many prelock guns for lack of parts from what I've heard. Even the grips can be "wrong" from one to the next if your not paying attention. Meanwhile any piece of a Glock or Beretta or hi power or 1911 can be had and will be able to be had for an eternity. Now when you get into Ruger or some of those that dump and release new models every few years, you may have issues.

 

[trackskippy]

True, but for SD we get high quality ammo and inspect it before we carry. Of course, there are semi-autos that are pretty good about eating most any ammo, and those are the guns one should gravitate to if choosing a semi-auto.

You should vet whatever it is you choose to carry, and what you use in it, and practice with both regularly.

And regardless what you use, you need to be up on your malfunction drills and know what to do and expect, and be able to deal with it without thinking about it, should you be unlucky enough that they might occur.

If you shoot them enough, they will all show you their ugly sides at some point, and they all have multiple personalities in that respect. How you deal with that when they happen, is the important part. That "stupid stare" you usually see on the range when someones gun stops, isnt very becoming, and it could be deadly.

 

[Tilos]

Yes, a revolver will fire with a low powder load, but that’s the only valid conclusion to be drawn. The point of practice is to achieve a practical result not here the gun go bang. Practice allows one to develop the skills necessary to achieve acceptable performance in the use of the gun weather, hunting, target shooting, or developing self-defense skills. If the ammunition used in practice is not equivalent to that used in real-time applications then the practice is insufficient because ballistics and recoil control matter. Certainly one can practice shooting motor movements with underpowered ammo. But that could be done with a 22 caliber handgun.

I carry 124 gr JHP ammo in my EDC. I practice with 124 gr FMJ. The practice has the same feel that a real-time encounter would. Every muscle in my hands, wrists, and forearms is ready fornfiringb124 gr ammo for any purpose.

Yes, well said, thanks for posting this...
The cost of the primer in a puff load is about equal to a 22LR round today, and 22LR is much more available, so why bother with the complexity and time spent reloading?
That's a rhetorical question that does not need to be answered for me.
jmo,
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[Seedy Character]

I like reduced loads, just to allow more shooting / plinking.
I start NEW shooters on a revolver. .22, then reduced power and eventually, full power. All before going to a semi-auto.

I have loaded .357 with a 95 gr powder coated bullet, down to the point of being able to see the bullet in flight and strike the target. 1.8 gr. I got to the point of a bullet not clearing a 4.62" barrel. 1.6 gr. At which point I made note to NOT load below 2.0 gr.

Tilting the barrel up, before firing, moves the powder onto top of primer and gives better consistency. I have used fillers, but prefer not to.

Reduced loads have they place, just as full power loads do.

 

[jstert]

revolver grips and ammo can be easily customized to suit various physical abilities. revolver manual of arms is less complex than that of semiauto pistols. the big problem with revolvers these days is poor availability of various platforms…thinking specifically of the market’s slim offerings of modern 32 revolvers. revolvers are generation-dependent, the folks who grew up familiar with a revolver are dwindling.

 

[Tilos]

revolver grips and ammo can be easily customized to suit various physical abilities. revolver manual of arms is less complex than that of semiauto pistols. the big problem with revolvers these days is poor availability of various platforms…thinking specifically of the market’s slim offerings of modern 32 revolvers. revolvers are generation-dependent, the folks who grew up familiar with a revolver are dwindling.

Yep
And 9mm (no moon clip) revolvers as well

 

[dannyd]

I shoot mouse fart loads every time I go to the range.