Yes, all of you are right. My big fear is that somebody stops making them!
However, there are two more points. Seeing that quite a few LE officers are here, I am surprised that nobody has mentioned what happens in a shuffle or a tumult, a chaotic political meeting. I trained body guards, been a bodyguard on special assignments and stood on a podium facing 9000 people of which some were hostile. If you have to shoot, you fire one and you hit the right guy, if you miss you hit the wrong guy! Or a woman, or a child or an old man. No firepower needed, but reliability of my Mod 19 was all I trusted.
In another situation, there was a melee, bricks had been used to build bench seats. The bricks were flying. I just made sure I dont lose my revolver, but was watching if anybody pulled out a gun. If that had happened, everybody would have started shooting. Bricks flying people pushing, shuffling, that is the time you do not want a cocked-and-locked pistol near or on you.
Maybe you people have not realised it, but a DA revolver can be fired (including opening a pan cake holster) in a little less than .5 seconds in the instictive mode.
Comparisons showed that a top shooter with cocked and locked, following his typical routine will take more than 1 second to fire the first shot. That means that a proficient DA revolver shooter can score three shots before the auto is in action.
A DA auto is not as fast because of the shape of the grip. You have to get into the pistol grip from behind (vertical barrel) or from below (horizontal barrel) A DA auto does not point as well for the instinctive shot.
In cambat shooting there was descrimination against revolvers, but one singel rule change will prove that a revolver fires any number of rounds faster than a pistol. Sounds ridiculous, but thry this - make the rule that all magazines, all pistols all revolvers are in the same condition after the shooting as before meaning all magazines used must be loaded/filled again. If you are good with a DA revolver, challenge a pistol shooter. It does not matter if you fire 6 rounds or 100 rounds, you will see first a very confident pistol shooter, then when you fired your last rounds and he is far behind filling magazines his expression changes to disbeliev.
Another tip, I used to carry 30 or so rounds in the right breast pocket of my Khaki shirts. If the shirt pocket (no formula for this) is right for the type of cartridge, you will notice that after moving a bit about, cartridges turn base up and easy to laod. From the right brest pocket is the shortest way to load a cylinder.
Then after many rounds, you will get the hang of it to take exactly six rounds needed to realod. Not something to learn in a week.
A revolver can be the simplest most reliable tool for an untrained person, but top performance is a science and I dare say can not be achieved with a pistol. It took also 100 years to make pistols as accurate as revolvers alawys were.
Keep it up.
I rember another good one. We entered a building, me in front, guy with Hi-Power 13 shot behind me. He drew fast, the magazine came out, clanked to the ground and slid along the floor overtaking me. His 13 shot pistol was converted to single shot mode. Was I glad to have a revolver. :=)
Enough.
Regards
Winfried