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Originally Posted by Mainsail
The revolver has superfluous weight.
The chamber of any gun needs to be heavy and strong enough to contain the forces generated at firing. The revolver has five to eight chambers, yet only one of them can be used at any one time. The auto has one chamber which is reused until the supply of ammo onboard is exhausted.
So a six round auto will be much lighter than a six round revolver.
Feel is subjective.
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Having REDUNDANT (not superfluous) chambers comes in handy if your "one chamber which is reused until the supply of ammo onboard is exhausted." Contains a dud round, or an overpower round that creates a FTFeed, or an underpower round that creates a FTEject.
All of your redundant chambers are fully supported so that when you fire 50 rounds you get 50 reloadable cases (without wearing out your back).