Prediction: tactical revolvers next?

Armored farmer said:
I am interested in purchasing one of those tactical revolvers with the new ABC (automatic brass containment) systems.
It is my understanding that you can fire these weapons, and they don't fling brass everywhere. They retain the spent casings right there inside the gun until you are ready to remove them!
. Gunmakers boast about another feature where the exposed hammer can be manually drawn back, and then the trigger automatically goes into single action mode for precision shooting.
I have acquired a picture of the prototype:
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In for the win!^^^ Classic!
 
It's probably the aluminum-framed hammerless j-frame in 9mm.

I misremember the model number, but that's an appropriate BUG for someone whose primary weapon (or weapons) are 9mm.
 
Armored farmer said:
I am interested in purchasing one of those tactical revolvers with the new ABC (automatic brass containment) systems.
It is my understanding that you can fire these weapons, and they don't fling brass everywhere. They retain the spent casings right there inside the gun until you are ready to remove them!
. Gunmakers boast about another feature where the exposed hammer can be manually drawn back, and then the trigger automatically goes into single action mode for precision shooting.
I have acquired a picture of the prototype:
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Wow, we truly do live in a modern age full of wonders. :D
 
mcb said:
Actually we should use this as an opportunity to bring the top break revolvers back into vogue. With some of the modern steel we could make a "pro-elite" top break revolver that would hold up to 45/40/9 no problem. Auto eject on opening, moonclips, etc. We could still do red dot and light rail. I would even go so far as to make the barrel spring loaded so it auto opens when the release lever is pressed. One hand ejection so you other hand can be reaching for the next moonclip.

ETA: if we switch to a bottom barrel location like the Chiappa Rhino we could mount the red dot in the void above the barrel but low enough that it co-witnesses with the iron sights. That has to be tactical/elite/pro...
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entropy said:
I think MCB is onto something there. They could have complete uppers, changing caliber would be as easy as changing the upper. No worries about shooting the wrong round, as with the .223 and .300BO, as the magazine is self contained.
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This is brilliant!!
 
I'll preface this by saying that I own more mounted weaponlights than a lot of people own guns. I've been using them for about 15yrs and firmly believe in them for any firearm used in a defensive role. At home, most bad things happen at night and a light is critical. I also strongly believe in red dots for such guns, the newer the better. If it has push button controls and a "shake awake" function, it's a first class defensive optic. So all my home defense guns wear lights and all the long guns wear red dots. I'm slowly migrating to red dots on the handguns as well. I've found limited application for lasers and think it's easy to leave them out of the equation. While everyone else is triggered by the word "tactical", I'm training in the dark with the guns they make fun of for their "gizmos"

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Y'all know I am a revolver nut. However, I can't help but see them as different tools for different jobs. In my opinion, mounted weaponlights are not applicable for revolvers and if that's the case, they're not really an option in the role of a fully optimized defensive handgun. For one thing, a light mounted under the barrel is too far away from your support hand to be manipulable from a firing position. Even so, your hand would have to bridge the barrel/cylinder gap and we know that's not a comfortable way to shoot. I would like to see revolvers with an integrated optic plate but that would be for more sporting purposes.
 
Varminterror said:
Y’all are way behind the times. The “tactical” buzzword has all but ended in modern marketing. That’s 2000’s and 20-teens talk.
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That’s really true, I haven’t seen anyone called a mall ninja in several years, many of the newer people around here probably have no idea who Gecko45 is, and tacticool isn’t even a term anymore.

As for the OP when the Chiappa Rhino came out I anticipated a bunch of tacticool attempts at revolvers. If they can ruin lever actions they can ruin anything, including revolvers.
 
JERRY said:
10 shot .30SC
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9 works on a 327/627/929 N-frame. To do 10 rds would require moving the barrel up significantly more than it was to create the 8-shot N-frames.

You could do an 11-shot pretty easily on an X-frame.
 
Jim Watson said:
X frames weigh 4 lbs +/- right up there in Walker Colt country.
For that, I'd rather add a bit and have a carbine on a sling.
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Yeah but if we are going to do 11 shots of 30 Super Carry on an X-frame we can make it much lighter. We can switch to a Scandium frame, thin barrel with aluminum over sleeve (like the TRR8), and a Titanium cylinder. We can probably cut the weight of an an X-frame nearly in half for a similar barrel length.
 
mcb said:
Yeah but if we are going to do 11 shots of 30 Super Carry on an X-frame we can make it much lighter. We can switch to a Scandium frame, thin barrel with aluminum over sleeve (like the TRR8), and a Titanium cylinder. We can probably cut the weight of an an X-frame nearly in half for a similar barrel length.
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What's more potent? 30 SC or 327 mag??
 
JeeperCreeper said:
What's more potent? 30 SC or 327 mag??
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I think the 327 Mag just due to the greater case volume is going to be more potent especially with heavier for caliber bullets. But for a "Tactical" revolver I will give up a bit ballistic performance for short rimless cartridges. The rimless factor facilitates thicker more robust moonclips and short cartridge extract more reliably and go in as a moonclipped unit much more reliably. Long skinny cartridges and moonclips don't always play well together.
 
mcb said:
9 works on a 327/627/929 N-frame. To do 10 rds would require moving the barrel up significantly more than it was to create the 8-shot N-frames.

You could do an 11-shot pretty easily on an X-frame.
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I was being facetious.
 
JERRY said:
I was being facetious.
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That's OK. I was being mildly serious. I would love to see some higher capacity revolvers. The X-frame version probably is not worth it but a 9-shot N-frame seems like an easy product for S&W. Probably not a hot product but probably hot enough to support the occasion production run. Sort of like the 610 that they only make every few years.
 
Tactical revolver?

If I were the marketing director for a firearms manufacturer I'd nix that faster than a single shot AR.

But then, I'm not, for good reason.

Maybe if an ammo company, say Hornady, introduced a proprietary cartridge, like 10 mm auto rim, and S&W convinced LE to buy a few thousand, people would line up to buy it.

I'm just messin with y'all.
 
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DeepSouth said:
That’s really true, I haven’t seen anyone called a mall ninja in several years, many of the newer people around here probably have no idea who Gecko45 is, and tacticool isn’t even a term anymore.

As for the OP when the Chiappa Rhino came out I anticipated a bunch of tacticool attempts at revolvers. If they can ruin lever actions they can ruin anything, including revolvers.
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OMG! I forgot all about that guy! He was a riot. I'm going to see if I can find some threads.
 
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