Reliability, an observation

[ugaarguy]

well for the semi auto favoring folks here, what would you rather have,

a jennings or raven arms 22lr semi auto, and 3 spare magazines or a 32 or 38 caliber revolver of your choice with your choice of load?

Well, Bezoar, would you rather have three RG revolvers in any caliber or a SIG P226 in 9mm or .40 S&W?

 

[Warp]

well for the semi auto favoring folks here, what would you rather have,

a jennings or raven arms 22lr semi auto, and 3 spare magazines or a 32 or 38 caliber revolver of your choice with your choice of load?

both types of weapon use springs. but what you shoot from your semi auto is determined by the projectile, and the amount of force required to make the springs work correctly.

Would you rather have a Glock 19 or a single action revolver?

 

[RJTravel]

How 'bout an RG .22 short SA revolver or a Glock 19?

 

[hemiram]

peacebutready-If they still made them, there would be a new S&W hangun I might buy, but since my 5906 is pretty much in new condition, I don't need to. My next purchases will probably be a SAR K2 .45, a Canik or Tri Star 9mm, and maybe a CZ P01.

 

[jad0110]

Would you rather have a Glock 19 or a single action revolver?

Too vague to determine ... what kind of single action revolver?

An NAA mini in .22LR. I'd take the Glock.

A Ruger Vacquero in .45 Colt ... I'd take the Vacquero. I shoot Glocks very inconsistently ... generally rather poorly to tell you the truth. My hand and the Glock grip frame don't get along very well .

Granted, I'm not very practiced on single actions, but at least I can get them to hit what I want them to hit.

 

[Zerodefect]

Meh, use what works for you. I can't hit jack with a revolver. Too slow. Long trigger. Obsolete sights (usually). And Jack wasn't even running very fast.

A Glock or 1911 is magnitudes quicker and more accurate for me. There is no fair comparison for performance, for me.

I'm not convinced that a revolver is more reliable either. Still plenty of fragile 1890's style parts in those. But now they're made out of modern metal as hard as 3 day old cheddar cheese.
-I've also seen the ammo fail in J frames and jam them up.
-unburnt powder locking them up
-they hate dirt every bit as much as the semi's, I think more than the semi's.
-spring failure
-primer lockup
-broken bolt
-out of alignment crane
-loose ejector rod

Oh yeah, revolvers never fail.

A had one fail because I walked outside into cold air and moisture froze on it!

I know the Glock in my holster can bounce off solid door frames with my weight behind it, how do revolvers like that? I can set my Glock or 1911 down and stomp/jump on it without a care in the world. Would I do that to my revolver? No way. Do revolvers go through the asinine tests that autos get put through?

 

[hemiram]

I've had very few problems with any of the revolvers I've owned, with the exception of my first gun, a Taurus 83, it had a lot of issues, and Taurus service couldn't, or didn't want to, fix them. Since then, I've had three issues in about 20 revolvers. One was my Python broke the hand. It's a very delicate looking part, so it wasn't a shock. One of my Dan Wesson 15-2's broke the trigger return spring. It was used when I bought it. No big deal. And another 15-2 had the main spring clipped by the previous owner, resulting in light primer strikes. That's it. The two DWs were fixed in a couple of minutes, and the Python had to have the hand fitted by a gunsmith. I wish my semiautos had so few issues.

 

[Warp]

Too vague to determine ... what kind of single action revolver?

An NAA mini in .22LR. I'd take the Glock.

A Ruger Vacquero in .45 Colt ... I'd take the Vacquero. I shoot Glocks very inconsistently ... generally rather poorly to tell you the truth. My hand and the Glock grip frame don't get along very well .

Granted, I'm not very practiced on single actions, but at least I can get them to hit what I want them to hit.

How long does it usually take you to react, draw, and fire, say, 5 shots into a 5" circle at 5 yards?