ezypikns
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I haven't been shooting too long. Almost all my experience has been with semi-autos. Why do folks enjoy shooting revolvers rather than automatics?
I'm truly curious.
I'm truly curious.
The revolver is more reliable than a semi-auto, but not by much.
I'd say the revolver is easier to shoot under stress once you have mastered it, and point you to names like Bill Jordan and Jelly Bryce (http://www.gutterfighting.org/jellybryce.html). Even Cirillo "made his rep" with a revolver. LEAs found that after the large scale switch to "easier to shoot under stress autoloaders," the hit ratios remained the same--LEOs shot more rounds with autoloaders but placed the percentage on target. When you move out of LE there's always McGivern who amply demonstrated that a revolver is capable of very fast and very accurate shooting.The revolver is more difficult to shoot under stress, holds much less ammo and is slow and relatively difficult to reload.
Not quite true as people forget one important fact. The magazine is a part of the pistol. You can certainly reload a cylinder faster and easier than you can reload a magazine. Now you can switch out magazines rather quick, but a point in time comes when you run out of pre-loaded magazines then where is all that speed?relatively difficult to reload.
Step away from the mindset of a gun as your CCW or self-defense weapon. Imagine that 6 shots is no big deal. Just enjoy it for the fun of it.Why do folks enjoy shooting revolvers rather than automatics?
My reason: Variety.Why a Revolver?
In a close range fight, if the bad guy knows what he's doing, he could simply grab the cylinder. It takes a WHOLE LOT of force (so much it can't be fired at all) on the trigger to get the cylinder turning if there's that much force holding the cylinder still. Think about it, some revolvers wont shoot DA if the rear of the cylinder is dirty, that doesn't cause even a fraction of the drag a man's fingers on the cylinder would. I love my revolver, but it, and no firearm, is perfect.In a close-range fight, a wheelgun can't go out of battery on muzzle contact. A 38 or 357 5-shot snubby is the most difficult handgun type to grapple away from you; when combined with the muzzle contact issue, it is THE dominant defensive weapon when the range closes to 5ft or less.