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Old 07-03-2018, 10:36 AM
Protocall_Design Protocall_Design is offline
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I only shoot S&W revolvers in competition. I have only had 1 time since 1979 when a malfunction was the gun's fault. That was when the pivot pin sheared off the hand and it would only fire the 1st round.

In just about every match, one or more semi-autos jam and cause the owner to have a much lower score than they would have had without a jam.

I see it as a materials handling problem. In a revolver, all the rounds stay in the chamber during the firing sequence. In an auto, every round has to be gotten out of the magazine, loaded into the chamber, fired, gotten out of the chamber, then out of the action. There are 5 places in each shot where something can go wrong. Sometimes it does.

That's why I have never switched over to semi-auto. I think they are cool guns, but not as reliable as a revo.

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