I am pure evil ! !

[Engineer1911]

I went to the pistol match at Ft Eisenhower, Augusta, GA on Saturday. After the match was over, I was shooting a M19 PPC gun with 6" barrel and Aristocrat rib. Maryland Gun Works built the gun some time in the late 1970's. I also had my M586 with 8-3/8 barrel with a dot sight mounted on the barrel with real S&W rings. We were at the plate range where the match was held.

At the end of 1-1/2 hours of shooting, I had showed 4 shooters that you can have a lot more fun with a steel wheel gun than a plastic Wunder 9. One couple, under 25, were going to find a PPC revolver on Gun Broker. the other 2 guys were also going to get S&W revolvers. The best part was dropping fired brass into a bag, not picking it up of the ground. Four people under 30 wanting to buy a revolver -- I done GOOD.

Oh, I got 2nd place in the Plate Match and won back the entry fee. My next range day will be FREE. First Place was 12 seconds faster and 3 hits more than me. He was also 35 years younger than me. I shot a Para Long Slide 45 ACP 1911 with 5 mags each loaded with 10 rounds. You got to play the game.

 

[K Frame Keith]

I’m amazed by the large percentage of younger shooters who are completely mystified by revolvers of any kind. But most are interested enough to take a chance to try one. Good work.

 

[Sevens]

I am a huge fan of PPC revolvers and I am fortunate to have five of them, four of them from absolutely legendary builders.

The one worry that I genuinely have in recommending them to other shooters is plain & simple: these guns were built in a time where literally everyone that owned them and fed them could and did feed them Federal primer ammo.

MOST of the finest of these revolvers simply will not detonate other primers consistently. You can alter and adjust them to hit harder, but there’s no way to set it up at it’s absolute best and also fire 100% of the time in double action with most other primers.

These days, that means it’s hard to see and experience the full genius of these builds if you aren’t a handloader and one with a supply of the soft Federal 100 primer also.

I’ve got a pair from Bill Davis and a pair from Travis Strahan and another that is just as sublime from an unknown builder and none of them will reliably detonate the CCI-500 with regularity in double action.

 

[Rudi]

Wheel guns rule!!

 

[rwsmith]

That's.....

That's showin' 'em.

 

[kozmic]

We are in the process of a full gut/remodel of our master bath. My contractor's son just got notification his NYS Pistol Permit was approved and he's just waiting for the snail mail to catch up. He asked me to show him some of my carry guns. I showed him my wife's Shield, my M&P Compact and Full Size along with a Couple others from various makers. Then I showed him my Model 60 and 442. He was hooked. His first purchase will be a J frame 442. Not the usual response you get from the under 25 crew.