What do you carry auto or revolver and why?

What do you carry a Auto or a Revolver

  • Revolver and I'm 21-34

    Votes: 37 10.0%

  • Auto and I'm 21-34

    Votes: 101 27.4%

  • Revolver and I'm 35 or older

    Votes: 86 23.3%

  • Auto and I'm 35 or older

    Votes: 145 39.3%
  • Total voters
    369
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I just have more faith in a revolver going bang everytime.
I also feel safer with a revolver in my pants ,that I wont shoot myself.
Most auto's have a lighter trigger than revolvers.
I know they won't go bang unless you pull the triger but I still don't trust it maybe over time.
I have a p95 and when you decock it the hammer falls and it has never gone off but I always think what if.I have also had 2 FTE and what if it was in a SD situation.
I will be getting my LCP soon but I will have my revolver on me most of the time also,until I have about 250-300 rounds thru the LCP and can trust it.
I asked the age because I thought more of us older folks over 35 would carry revolvers,I guess I'm wrong.
 
I'm 63, at least until next Sunday. For carry, I prefer a 1911 but when discretion counts as in hot weather I drop a KelTec PF9 or a CZ RAMI in my pocket holster. I own and love revolvers, too but don't carry them as much.
 
I asked the age because I thought more of us older folks over 35 would carry revolvers,I guess I'm wrong.
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Well, nearly half of the "over 35" crowd voted revolver while it's closer to 25% for the young 'uns. Seems you had the generation gap pretty well nailed.

If you'd have caught me 30 years ago, I'd have been with the revolver crowd but the world's changed since then. Glock's army invaded Smyrna. People expect service autos to run and are, for the most part, not disappointed. Colt has gone out of the DA revolver business and that doesn't help.
 
i carry an autoloder, why because that is what i like and that is what i am best with, and the little fact that i don't have a revolver.
 
Both and I'm 55 years old. Kel Tec P11, Taurus M85SSUL, Taurus M66 3", Ruger P90, Ruger P85, Grendel P12 .380, 3" Rossi M68, NAA .22LR mini revolver, just a few of my ever growing carry collection. The P11 and the M85 get the most carry. I own 4 center fire autos out of 20 handguns total. 6 of the rest are rimfires, one single shot with 4 barrels I count as one gun, the other 9 are revolvers two of those being cap and ball and two being single action Blackhawks. Two of the rimfires are revolvers so I guess I have 11 wheel guns total. I really prefer shooting revolvers, but autos have their CCW advantages and DA/DAOs sorta work like revolvers anyway.

I've been there, done that, didn't like it with 1911s, but other than that, I don't exclude gun types from my battery and I might get another 1911 type gun someday just for a range gun. I'd never carry one, though.
 
Did not vote ...

... there was no "both" option :p .

I always have my 642 (snubnose 38). Sometimes, my 5" 1911 takes the role as primary and the 642 serves as BUG (like right now). I shoot both well (for me :eek:), I am confident in their operation and both have proven to be reliable. In the future, I plan on adding a 2.5-3" Ruger Six series 357 Mag or a similar S&W K frame.

So my preference is for revolvers and 1911s. BTW, I am 29 yrs old.

Just carry what works best for you, and make sure it works. Then practice with it until it becomes boring :D .
 
55 & have owned handguns since the day before Brady. I've always carried revolvers, my first CCW was a 3" taurus 85 in stainless but a friend loaned me a 1911 about a year ago. Now, I own several 1911s & carry a Comander full time. It's as easy to carry as the 85 w/ a whole bunch more "Stop".
 
auto 24 yrs old

I carry kimber ultra carry II, in the winter and a ruger lcp pocket in the summer, everyonce in a while i will carry my j-frame 442. i like to have more than five shots, hopefully I never need more though..
 
43 yrs old FWIW. Why? For me, I shoot autos better and they feel better in my hand plus I like the increased capacity.
 
Hawk, let's play trivial persuit. His dog's name was Falah, his wife's name was Eleanor. You tell me which Roosvelt
 
I carry an auto for a few reasons. One is of course the high capacity of rounds that I have with the auto. Some may say that if a person`s good he or she doesn`t need them but I say why take a chance.
Two is because of the speed that rounds can be fired. I`ve seen the fastest revolver guy on youtube but he`s in the minority.
 
Posted by Master of Arms:
I`ve seen the fastest revolver guy on youtube but he`s in the minority.
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That would be Jerry Miculek.

What the revolver advocates don't mention when they crow about Miculek and how fast revolvers supposedly are, is that Miculek's revolvers aren't stock.

They're "enhanced" by custom revolver specialist Jim Rae of the Smith & Wesson Performance Center.

The revolver Miculek used in 2004 to attempt to break one of Ed McGivern's records, had a special "V"-shaped barrel that was ported. Rae also worked on the action and trigger. Miculek fired very light handloaded target loads, with much lighter than normal recoil.

Give Miculek a completely stock revolver off of Smith's mass production line, with a standard barrel, no porting and no special work done on the action and trigger---then load it with full power defensive loads.

You'll see Miculek's times get noticeably worse.
 
I carry a pistol (auto) and I'm definitely over 35. I did, however, carry a revolver years ago.
 
At 71 i realized i can longer outrun and to darn honry to give in to punks so i carry a snub .38 or a .380 P232, depending on how i wake up each day. Most often i start my day off with feeling good cause i DID wake up!
 
Own a couple of nice revolvers, J frame, model 19, model 66, model 64ctg, and a Ruger "police" service six, but the only handgun I would trust my life to is Glock, either a 23 or 27. I have never found any weapon as reliable.
 
Semi-autos of course, and I'm well past the 35 mark.

Semis are currently leading by about 4 to 1 in the younger age group, and by about 2.5 to 1 amongst the older group.

No surprise there.

Revolvers were rendered essentially obsolete for military usage about a century ago.

Since the infamous FBI Miami shootout of 1986, the revolver has been retired by almost every federal, state, county and medium-to-large city law enforcement agency in the country.
 
I carry both, but more often than not, a revolver is in my holster as a CCW (Charter Arms 3" Bulldog .44SPL circa 1980 or a Ruger SP101 2.25" .357Mag), but I will, at times, when the mood strikes me carry one of my Colt Combat Commanders, or Colt GM 1911's, or when I need something small my Walther SS PPK/s.

Revolvers were rendered essentially obsolete for military usage about a century ago.
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It is all about ability, mission, and perceptions! :scrutiny:
Are you going to war? (Military)
Is your mission CC? (Civilian)
Are you LEO?
Does carrying one or the other make your day? :cool:


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