What piqued your interest of revolvers?

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Hi everyone. Just curious about how you got interested in revolvers, especially any of you younger guys (seeing as how the younger generations seem to prefer autos).

For clarification, I consider myself part of the younger generations as I am now 30 years old, but I have a love of revolvers and carry one daily. My interest was sparked while majoring in police science at my local community college. The firearms instructors started us out on revolvers just in case we went to a department that still carried them. We were using S&W model 27's (or 19's, can't remember which). I wasn't very good but I loved every second it was in my hand. Since then I've purchased a GP100 and an SP101 and looking forward to my next revolver. I work with a guy that says "if our chief allowed us to carry revolvers I'd switch today." I'm not sure if I'd make the switch for duty use or not, but I'd be really tempted.

Anyway, that's my story, what's yours?
 
Super light j-frames and the ease with which they are concealed is what piqued my interest in revolvers. Even so, I still only have 2 revolvers while I own 7 autos.
 
gunnutery said:
Hi everyone. Just curious about how you got interested in revolvers, especially any of you younger guys (seeing as how the younger generations seem to prefer autos).

For clarification, I consider myself part of the younger generations as I am now 30 years old, but I have a love of revolvers and carry one daily. My interest was sparked while majoring in police science at my local community college. The firearms instructors started us out on revolvers just in case we went to a department that still carried them. We were using S&W model 27's (or 19's, can't remember which). I wasn't very good but I loved every second it was in my hand. Since then I've purchased a GP100 and an SP101 and looking forward to my next revolver. I work with a guy that says "if our chief allowed us to carry revolvers I'd switch today." I'm not sure if I'd make the switch for duty use or not, but I'd be really tempted.

Anyway, that's my story, what's yours?
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John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and small gun company from the Wyoming Territory called Freedom Arms.
 
Indiana Jones, which is why the first revolver I got was a S&W Model 10
 
I got interested when my Detective uncle gave me a .22 Kit Gun snub when I was 16 . My dad kept it when I wasn't shooting it until I was 18. It seemed a lot more sophisticated than the Spanish .410 Shot Pistol I bought from a playmate when I was 13 and hid in my room. I got rid of the shot pistol when I was 17 and went to college. I still have the S&W 34 since 1961 !!!!!!!!!!
 
Skeeter Skelton... I love his stories and they got me going on Ruger Single Actions. That lead to a general revolver love....
 
I'm a young-ish gal, 34, and seem only to be interested in revolvers.

I think I finally figured it out. I loved the Police Academy movies when I was a kid and I vaguely recall telling my dad I wanted a gun like they had (which would have been a S&W model 10, according to my brief research). I clearly remember specifying I wanted wood grips (I didn't know they were called grips, of course). My dad got me a little BB gun that may or may not have had faux wood grips and set up a little target trap in the basement.

Fast forward 26 years, and I spent most of today trying to find service style grips for my two short D frame Colts, and they have to be service style, not combat style. I guess some things never change. :)
 
Don't care to bring it up a lot, but when I was 13, that was the first of my interest in firearms at all. Started when I caught a late-night television show, an animated series originating from Japan that's main character carried a stainless, top-break .45 LC double-action revolver that fired from the bottom of the cylinder. There were also plenty other gun uses, and I could have very well gotten into autos or whatever, but a love of revolvers just stuck. In a little over half a year I'll be able to buy what will be my carry gun, and I'm leaning to the Ruger LCR.
 
I was looking into a self defense handgun. I had read some really insightful articles on how a 5 or 6 shot snubbie is quite adequate for civilian self defense.

At the same time the LCR .38 came out. It was new. And cool! And when I tried it ... it felt good.

That's pretty much the end of the story. 8) Been loving the Snubbie ever since.
 
harry calihan................ when you saw the shot of that s&w mod 29 the muzzle it just moved me...... got my first smith about a month later.... model 13-2..... then when luckily came across a friend of a fiend at a gun show with a 95% model 27-2 6" i had to have that one....... i have shot .44 magmuns but i really like the .357 better and the model 27 is a beautiful piece......................
 
I grew up watching Roy, Gene, the Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and all the others. The only semi I knew about was a 1911, and cowboys didn't carry them.
 
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I saw this pistol sitting on the shelf at my local gun shop in 1987. I already owned a S&W 669 and an AMT Hardballer at the time. But something in this 2nd hand S&W 29-3 just spoke to me.

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17 years old. Dont own one yet but the first handgun I plan to buy will be either a GP100 or an SP101. Semi autos are captivating in their complexity and I have no doubt I will own my fair share but there will always be something about revolvers that is more elegant. From a logical standpoint there are several advantages to revolvers. Most seem to be capable of shooting multiple calibers (38, 357). If properly cared for, the first thing to go out on a revolver will usually be the barrel. Everything I have read points to revolvers making it to the 100K round mark without any signs of giving up whereas most autos will never make it to 50K. Ammo is generally more powerful and easier to reload. The revolver design is inherently more accurate and more reliable. I know there are more good things about them but I cant think straight anymore from lack of sleep.
 
We had a neighbor who was one of the first woman cops around here. She had a nickel S&W snubbie of some kind, and she let me hold it when I was about 5, and I wanted one just like it from that point on, it had pearl grips on it. Never got it though, the closest I came was a 4" model 66 about 18 years later. She and her husband, also a cop, moved away long ago. I tried to find them, but both their names are so common, it's not possible.
 
I'm 26 and I own 3 revolvers and one semi. I have had a Python since I was 18 and I guess it just sits right with me. When I first got the gun from my dad he told me I could pick out anything I wanted since I was moving away and needed protection. I picked the Python because I knew it would sit in my nightstand and never be used. I thought that auto mags would wear out if left loaded forever, now I know that isn't the case but that was why I chose the Python back then.

Now my love for revolvers is the fact that I can shoot .357 which is my favorite caliber and the fact that they are super reliable. They can't be knocked out of battery, nor fail to feed or eject and they don't care what brand of ammo. There is no such thing as a "magazine failure" and I just love the sound the make when cocked.

Of the handguns that are in my future, all of them are revolvers. A Ruger LCR in .357 for my carry and probably a Ruger GP100 for a nightstand/ truck gun. I would also like to have that Smith and Wesson that holds 8 rounds of 357, can't think of what it is called right now. Oh and if Colt ever comes out with a double action revolver again I will buy it because I am a Colt man.
 
I wanted a handgun for carry and nightstand duty, durring college and all I could afford was a S&W Mod 10-4 3" for $125. I just shoot revolvers better, and I have proven that fact time and again with my FNP-9 a close second.
 
I grew up firing them. First gun I ever fired was a Ruger Single-Six. Fired my first Super Blackhawk when I was 13. To this day if I am ever curious as to a sound in my house, my first instinct is to give my wife the 9mm and grab my SBH to clear the house.

-MW
 
Revolver

It is the best. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Randolph Scott, Clint Eastwood couldn't have been wrong. Now on a serious note:
When it gets to crunch time. And you have to rely on a handgun for your protection. I leave the auto at home. I believe the revolver is more reliable, is able to do more, and handle more applications then an auto. I have several autos. I like them. But I carry the trusted and true revlover in defense of my life. Speed Six in 357 or Taurus 431 in 44 Special as the primary. Boot weapon is a snub 38 special. I will never feel under gunned with either one of these weapons.
Sure you can drink the "KOOL AIDE" and follow what the gun rags say, and listen to what the so called gun writers of today say. But the tried and true revolver will be my weapon of choice.
 
I'm 32 and like both semi-autos and wheelguns, although I admit to owning about 10x the number of semi-autos as wheelguns. However, I think that's because I see a quality revolver as something that will last forever, so how many do you really need? I have a GP100 and SP101 (also have a nagant, but that's not worth mentioning. that's the sidearm i give to the slow guy in a zombie apocalypse), both of which I expect to be passed down to my grandkids someday.

I can appreciate the various attributes of both semi-autos and revolvers. As far as what piqued my interest initially... eh, just my general love of guns. And how can anyone into guns not own a .357 or two?

What's funny is that my shooting buddies are all 10-20 years older than me -- and none of them cares to own a revolver. The oldest guy won't even own a 1911, and only buys plastic stuff. :uhoh: Also, my father, in his 60's, is only interested in semi-autos. So maybe this whole characterization of older guys liking revolvers and younger guys liking semi-autos isn't right :D
 
When I got back from my first deployment my dad gave me a old model Ruger Blackhawk 45 convertible with a 7 1/2" barrel. I had semi-autos before ,but with this gun I could should shoot six shot groups through one ragged hole all day. Thats what got me into revolvers I hardly ever shoot my semi-autos an more.
 
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