Anyone who has even owned or shot an old top break seems to agree that they are faster and easier to load and unload so why did this design fail? I know most of the top breaks were fragile but with modern heat treating and technology I think they could make a pretty decent top break.
I love the top break because it easy to load with the cylinder being in the center of the gun and being more open that modern swing out cylinder guns. Also I think it would be better suited to left handed shooters.
A great gun would be a 3" K frame sized gun in .357 with the top break action or a J frame snubbie. The snubbie would be great because it would eliminate the problem of the too short ejector rod that doesn't provide enough length for compleat extraction of the empty shells.
I think revolver design is stuck in a rut and we need more inovative designs. Everything that is old is new again, there is nothing new under the sun, etc., etc.
I love the top break because it easy to load with the cylinder being in the center of the gun and being more open that modern swing out cylinder guns. Also I think it would be better suited to left handed shooters.
A great gun would be a 3" K frame sized gun in .357 with the top break action or a J frame snubbie. The snubbie would be great because it would eliminate the problem of the too short ejector rod that doesn't provide enough length for compleat extraction of the empty shells.
I think revolver design is stuck in a rut and we need more inovative designs. Everything that is old is new again, there is nothing new under the sun, etc., etc.