Pete D.
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accuracy
I have little trouble accepting that a well made stock revolver is mechanically more accurate than a stock semi-auto. Operational accuracy...? That's another ball game. A semi-auto is easier to shoot well (accurately) than a revolver (I don't often make unqualified comments like that). I base that premise on what I mentioned before....that one rarely sees revolvers at matches that require precision shooting. While it may well be true that a well made stock revolver will shoot as well or better than an "accurized" semi-auto from a rest, that ignores the practical aspects of accuracy. If revolvers produced better scores in, for instance, Bullseye matches, shooters would be still using them. They aren't using them - and these are men and women who know their way around guns and who can shoot both revolvers and semis well - because they get better scores with the semis. "Better scores" is another way of evaluating accuracy.
There is no argument that revolvers are available in chamberings and configurations that render them more accurate at long range....that is yet another way of evaluating accuracy.
Pete
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in Bullseye match competition, where a premium is placed on precision/accuracy, the semi-auto rules the roost. It is rare that one sees a revolver on the line.
It is rare you see a combat grade semi-auto either.
The guns that win Bullseye matches are for the most part, hand fitted match grade pistols.
A box stock S&W revolver will out shoot a box stock combat grade auto just about every time.
I have little trouble accepting that a well made stock revolver is mechanically more accurate than a stock semi-auto. Operational accuracy...? That's another ball game. A semi-auto is easier to shoot well (accurately) than a revolver (I don't often make unqualified comments like that). I base that premise on what I mentioned before....that one rarely sees revolvers at matches that require precision shooting. While it may well be true that a well made stock revolver will shoot as well or better than an "accurized" semi-auto from a rest, that ignores the practical aspects of accuracy. If revolvers produced better scores in, for instance, Bullseye matches, shooters would be still using them. They aren't using them - and these are men and women who know their way around guns and who can shoot both revolvers and semis well - because they get better scores with the semis. "Better scores" is another way of evaluating accuracy.
There is no argument that revolvers are available in chamberings and configurations that render them more accurate at long range....that is yet another way of evaluating accuracy.
Pete