BCRider
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No this is not a "which is better" thread. Just a grin story for you old timers about a newbie's moment the other day.
Revolvers are pretty rare at the range I've done all my shooting at so far. I've only been shooting since last October and only finally got my first two revovlers a couple of weeks back. Up to that point all my revovler shooting was done using the range's various S&W's.
So... I notice the guy in the alley next to me is shooting .357's and we get to chatting over the banging from the other alleys. He's got a really nice Colt and I'm showing him my used but clean S&W Highway Patrolman that I had just got. As I'm holding and checking out his Colt he says "well you won't know what it's like until you shoot it". So we swap guns for a cylinder's worth.
I load up some of my .38 Spl and shoot off 6. Nice. Certainly comparable but slightly different feeling in small ways. Then he reaches around the barrier and lays 3 Magnum's on the table with a smile. I load up the rounds and, being a good S&W owner, click the cylinder into place with the rounds in the 1 to 4 o'clock positions (as in on the right hand side of the gun).
Well you Colt owners know what comes next... "click" Hmmmm... No BANG.... I cock the hammer by hand and notice it's going the other way. So "click", "click" , BANG!
So now I know that Colt revolvers rotate the other way. Now that I think about it the direction the reliefs for the notches in the cylinder would indicate which way the cylinder turns. A nice bit of knowledge to have. Should come in very handy for impressing the ladies at parties....
Now I've got this extra bit of gun lore to tuck into my cartridge belt.
Oh, and I liked the Colt. Maybe even enough to get one at some point if I can trip over a deal. In the meantime I'm really, really enjoying my super clean Model 19 6inch and my almost super clean Model 28.
I'll see if I can take a family portrait a bit later this evening.
Revolvers are pretty rare at the range I've done all my shooting at so far. I've only been shooting since last October and only finally got my first two revovlers a couple of weeks back. Up to that point all my revovler shooting was done using the range's various S&W's.
So... I notice the guy in the alley next to me is shooting .357's and we get to chatting over the banging from the other alleys. He's got a really nice Colt and I'm showing him my used but clean S&W Highway Patrolman that I had just got. As I'm holding and checking out his Colt he says "well you won't know what it's like until you shoot it". So we swap guns for a cylinder's worth.
I load up some of my .38 Spl and shoot off 6. Nice. Certainly comparable but slightly different feeling in small ways. Then he reaches around the barrier and lays 3 Magnum's on the table with a smile. I load up the rounds and, being a good S&W owner, click the cylinder into place with the rounds in the 1 to 4 o'clock positions (as in on the right hand side of the gun).
Well you Colt owners know what comes next... "click" Hmmmm... No BANG.... I cock the hammer by hand and notice it's going the other way. So "click", "click" , BANG!
So now I know that Colt revolvers rotate the other way. Now that I think about it the direction the reliefs for the notches in the cylinder would indicate which way the cylinder turns. A nice bit of knowledge to have. Should come in very handy for impressing the ladies at parties....
Now I've got this extra bit of gun lore to tuck into my cartridge belt.
Oh, and I liked the Colt. Maybe even enough to get one at some point if I can trip over a deal. In the meantime I'm really, really enjoying my super clean Model 19 6inch and my almost super clean Model 28.
I'll see if I can take a family portrait a bit later this evening.