Are Revolvers any more reliable than modern Autos?

[Jim March]

Glocks are reliable as hell, but they can still be limp-wristed and still go out of battery on muzzle contact.

 

[Ralph Bryant]

Jumping battery on muzzle contact I would agree with. Something we once tried at the indoor range was to tie a cord above the shooters position and attach it to a Glock 19, and then fired it using just the thumb and index finger (you WON'T do it very long... ) which was about as "limp" as we could manage to fire it. The cord just prevented it from hitting the ground when it recoiled. Whether it was a result of the lighter slide on the "mid-compact" or whatever, we never could get the 19 to fail to cycle and completely feed a new round. Same with a full clip or an empty clip. I sometimes wonder if "limp wristing" may be as much a matter of pull-back reflex action (a backward flinch?) as much as it is a failure to solidly support the gun in recoil. In our example, gun support was almost non-existant, but it continued to cycle fully. Go figure......

 

[cslinger]

Glocks are less prone to limp wristing then many, but ANY semi can be limp wristed and the smaller the gun the more likely.

Modern Semis should be just about as reliable as a good revolver and vice versa, they both still do excel at certain things that other cannot match though, different tools different jobs.

Chris