I have a Model 66 4 inch and a Model 19-3 with 6 inch BBL. They regularly make it to the range and on the nightstand. Something to be said for point and pull trigger.
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I Don't Get It, Revolver VS Semi Auto Pistols?
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GyMac
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I have some autos that I really like and carry, but I guess I really love revolvers. I just can't get excited about any of these new guns(circa post 1960). Just my opinion. If you like them, more power to you.
I CARE NOT for what most others think........I paddle my own canoe.
If you need as much power as you can get in a handgun, there's no alternative to revolvers. They will outlive us all.
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Some guns stir ones soul and others dont , that's ok. I prefer "tool " guns for serious use because they are replaceable. Glocks are a prime example of that .I will always have them available and respect them for what they are and do well,but I dont love them like a wood and metal gun .
Great thing about America is we have options and dont have to all love or like the same thing. Mission drives the gear and there is never anything wrong with having guns that we enjoy and make us happy .
Great thing about America is we have options and dont have to all love or like the same thing. Mission drives the gear and there is never anything wrong with having guns that we enjoy and make us happy .
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Far too many base the weapons they carry on movies & tv. They fantasize about being the guy in the movie facing insurmountable odds...a 5 or 6 shot revolver, don't think so! I'm not John Wick, but I can place those 5 or 6 rounds out of a revolver precisely where I want them to be.
I mostly carry a Glock 19 as a main weapon, but 80% of the time I have a 642 in my pocket as a BUG.
If I only have a revolver with me I absolutely do not feel underarmed.
YouTube is great...to watch Idiots in Cars videos...
I mostly carry a Glock 19 as a main weapon, but 80% of the time I have a 642 in my pocket as a BUG.
If I only have a revolver with me I absolutely do not feel underarmed.
YouTube is great...to watch Idiots in Cars videos...
That is very sad to hear.
So, todays LE does not carry a back up gun?
Maybe this office had a partner, along side?
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I'm definitely a revolver guy, but I do love a good Colt automatic from the high polish/nitre blue era of the teens.
Tomorrow I will be heading to the club in my stickshift pickup to shoot a few revolvers. Yep. Really.
I like revolvers, I like semi autos. I even have a few plastic pistols.
They're all worth having to one degree or another. My tastes change over time, so what's really interesting today will be overcome by something else. Then I'll switch back again. I don't really care what the Youtubers say today. They may well come around in the future. This sport has room for all of us, even those who are "rong."
BKLooney
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I watch COPS a lot and am stunned when they take a handgun from a suspect or a car and attempt clearing the weapon...truly cringeworthy...
Owner of a LGS I do business with has recently been parting with his fine colection of older Smiths. Asked him why.
"Right now there is a market of well off retirees willing to pay top doller for a fine older revolver. When their gone, who will be the buyers when 99% of my current new handgun sales are semi-autos?"
"Right now there is a market of well off retirees willing to pay top doller for a fine older revolver. When their gone, who will be the buyers when 99% of my current new handgun sales are semi-autos?"
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Hair Trigger
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Well said, and reflects my own view exactly.
I'm between you and AC Man (69) and I do have a couple of semiauto's that I cherish as much as my revolvers. A 1903 Colt Model M and a S&W M41. The rest are like AC Man says, tools, albeit fun tools.
My guns will all outlive me and I hope be preserved and cared for to pass on to my descendants, but I'll be ashes long before my grandkids can appreciate them.
Many valid perspectives here. Personally, I tend to be proficient with both revolvers and semi-autos; however, I also try to be pragmatic.
I am disabled and can't run, so I have to make a stand if I ever feel endangered enough to draw a sidearm in defense. Considering how society has changed in the past 5 years or so, I fear that a revolver (while reliable and dependable) may not provide adequate firepower if it's needed. I also know that if I have to employ a sidearm defensively, chances are that I may never see it again. Honestly, I'd rather lose a less expensive polymer semi-auto rather than a steel semi-auto or a fine revolver.
Also, with ever increasing arthritis and other issues, it is extremely easier to reload a bottom feeder than a revolver. Plus, looking at the levity, it can be safe to say that most of the street predators can count to 5 or 6, but they might just lose count or be clueless when facing a semi-auto when it comes to how many rounds that they are facing!
I am disabled and can't run, so I have to make a stand if I ever feel endangered enough to draw a sidearm in defense. Considering how society has changed in the past 5 years or so, I fear that a revolver (while reliable and dependable) may not provide adequate firepower if it's needed. I also know that if I have to employ a sidearm defensively, chances are that I may never see it again. Honestly, I'd rather lose a less expensive polymer semi-auto rather than a steel semi-auto or a fine revolver.
Also, with ever increasing arthritis and other issues, it is extremely easier to reload a bottom feeder than a revolver. Plus, looking at the levity, it can be safe to say that most of the street predators can count to 5 or 6, but they might just lose count or be clueless when facing a semi-auto when it comes to how many rounds that they are facing!
Guns for thought.....
After we old revolver geezers are gone, some Gen-Z youngster is going to break away from their peers and have a field day at a S&WCA symposium with multiple tables of revolvers amongst a sea of polymer semi-autos.
They'll win first place for Historical Display.
I just turned 54 last month. So I'm squarely in the middle probably on the forum. My attraction to revolvers started very early because my dad was a S&W fan. He owned one 4" taper barrel model 10. I still have it today. I like old stuff. I like mechanical things. I've been told I have an old sole. I go trap shooting and I'm the guy with the Model 12. I like restoring old outboard motors. Old axes and hatchets. Old canoes. Things that speak to me. Revolvers speak very loudly to me.
I did a revolver channel called Revolver Dude but as an educator I was advised not to post videos of me shooting my revolvers because it's not a gun friendly community and my day job pays more than YouTube would have.
The reality is most people in their teens to 40 (I'm almost 35) use autoloaders. They grew up playing video games where revolvers weren't options or there was one of them. A lot of young people want the guns they see in the movie, or anime, or video game they played, which are more often than not an autoloader.
While some YouTubers are annoying, there are still some great ones like Paul Harrell and Hickock45 who give revolvers more love. Just have to look to find them.
The reality is most people in their teens to 40 (I'm almost 35) use autoloaders. They grew up playing video games where revolvers weren't options or there was one of them. A lot of young people want the guns they see in the movie, or anime, or video game they played, which are more often than not an autoloader.
While some YouTubers are annoying, there are still some great ones like Paul Harrell and Hickock45 who give revolvers more love. Just have to look to find them.
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My first handgun was a 28-2. I traded that in 71 for a new Browning HP, which I still have. That gun is beautiful, and I do love it. Beyond that, I have a couple Colt 1911's for nostalgia, and a SIG P220. However, my revolvers are my pride and joy, and I would no doubt opt for a revolver any given day over a semi- auto. Nothing like the big hole in the end of a 4" N frame. 
It's not so much the auto loader. It's the polymer construction. I have a Ruger MKII, S&W 41, 1911, Baby Browning Beretta Tomcat etc…. Steel construction just has character that polymer doesn't
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sousana
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Semi autos are sweet but there is just something about revolvers.
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