Like old friends!

[smith revolver cop]

My current department will no longer allow anyone to qualify with a revolver as an off-duty weapon. I prefer revolvers, so I've contacted an old acquaintance who is currently doing CCW classes and retired officer qualifications. Since I am retired (under LEOSA requirements) from my previous employer, I'm going to carry a revolver under that authority.

Tomorrow is my day at the range, so I got out my 4" Model 65-2 (my first duty gun), which is still wearing Herrett's Shooting Masters (my favorite set of stocks EVER!), and dug out my Roy's Leather Goods high-ride thumb break holster. First started carrying that combination over 30 years ago, but they still look and feel the same... very comfortable!

I doubt I'll carry the 4" SB 65 on a regular basis, but I've got my choice of a 3" RB 65, a 2 1/4" 640-1, a 1 7/8" 442, and a 3" 36. I'm figuring the 36 will be my "regular" carry gun.

 

[LEO918]

Good for you! Except for a few 1911's(that I don't carry much) it's revolvers all the way for me as well.

Leo

 

[smith revolver cop]

Good for you! Except for a few 1911's(that I don't carry much) it's revolvers all the way for me as well.

Leo

I love the Para LDA version of the 1911, but I recently had an AD with my Carry model (Officer size mags, 3" barrel). Pretty sure it was a stuck firing pin when loading and releasing the slide, but now I'm a little "gun shy" and don't plan to carry it. (Haven't even sent it back to get fixed yet.) I figure if I'm going to carry something the size and weight of the 7.45 (1911 style) LDA, I may as well carry a K-frame!

BTW, I'd never really thought much about it, but I had forgotten that my 65 is P&R!

 

[Fishslayer]

Dinosaur....

 

[sw44spl]

good for you.you just cant beat the ole six guns.

 

[redbos]

I agree, S&W's are the best guns in the world an I shoot them more than anything else, I still carry a plastic gun though..... I do carry a S&W 442 though, works for me....

 

[smith revolver cop]

Dinosaur....

That's a badge of honor, as far as I'm concerned!

 

[cjtraining]

My department requires us to carry the issued weapon on duty. It's plastic, the only good thing is that it's a M&P 40. I will add that it's a good gun, even being a plastic one. My BUG/OD/CCW is my Model 38 Bodyguard that I have carried since 1971. I always have that little beauty with me.

 

[Matt_G]

My current department will no longer allow anyone to qualify with a revolver as an off-duty weapon.

Do they have a reason for this policy or is this a just a case of cranial - rectal inversion?

 

[jimmyj]

Real men carry revolvers!

 

[jimmyj]

Do they have a reason for this policy or is this a just a case of cranial - rectal inversion?

Desk Jockeys likely made this rule.

*** Desk Jockey/Desk Bound Commando: Wimps that couldn't make the grade in Patrol.

 

[smith revolver cop]

Do they have a reason for this policy or is this a just a case of cranial - rectal inversion?

Chief got bit by the Glock bug. Range staff will only qualify us with DA-only or striker-fired semi-autos. Claim they're worried about what may happen in a high-stress situation... of course, one of the selling points of the Glock is, you take it out of the holster and it's ready to fire. Same thing with a wheelgun- take it out of the holster, and it's ready to fire. I'm just glad I have the retired-carry option available.

 

[butchkent]

Another revolver fan. I'm not a police officer retired or otherwise, but have some good friends who are. Love to hunt and shoot and got the revolver bug back in the 60's. There is no known cure.

Have it bad for Model 19's. Although my first was a new 19-3, 6", my favorites are 4 " and shorter.

Great carry weapon. Great hunting weapon. Darn good friend.

Lately I've seen a large number of model 10's and 15's on the shelves. Are PD getting rid of old replaced weapons or what?

Any idea what, a good condition mdl 10, 4" should go for?

Thanks for the good thread,

 

[Marshal Tom]

Retired Chief here who carried wheelguns for many years before going to a 1911 of some configuration for over thirty years. It is funny, the only semi that I presently own is a Clock 22 issued to me as a reserve officer in my old dept. All the other guns I presently own are S&W revolvers. I carry a 340 M&P as well as several other stainless .357's.

 

[jrmcbroom]

Butchkent, where are you seeing those model 10's and 15's? I'm trying to find a few to rebuild into carry guns. Plain, used 10's, with holster wear but good bores I've seen lately have been going from $250 to $350 around where I live. (I've shot revolvers for 45 years and still prefer them over any auto I've owned or shot - I have a Ruger P89DC for a rough-duty 9mm truck gun. It's tough as a tank, never had a misfire with bunches of different ammo, but I see it as a tool, and not the piece of art a vintage model 19 is.)

 

[Dave T]

It's kind of funny how different people can be. I started my LEO career with a Model 28-2. Shortly there after my department authorized qualification with semi autos. I qualified with a Government Model Colt and carried one version or another the rest of my career.

Running a firearms training business after retirement I got into Glocks out of necessity as so many were showing up in my classes. Retired from that a while back and started collecting N-frame S&Ws. Guess you could call it being bit by the revolver bug.

I found the cure for the "revolver bug" was getting back into the 1911. Oh, I still have my N-frames and shoot them for fun pretty regularly but wrapping my hand around a Colt GM is like going home. Spent so much time, and ammo, learning that feel it just stayed with me.

As is said so often...YMMV!
Dave

 

[Bat Guano]

I know that all gun aren't created equal, but this business of "expert" management endlessly dictating what you will or won't carry (ad nauseam and ever-changing) gets old. It's sort of like the bank dictating to the carpenters what hammer to use on the job. All too often they're screwing up their own job while interfering with the working troops.

I have one plastic gun (a Sigma, not a Glock) which I am ambivalent about; I do OK with 1911s but shoot wheelguns best. It's hard to see that as a bad thing.

Jim Cirillo made do pretty well with a Model 10 but what did he know?

 

[ikor]

I wouldn't be too hard on the younger generation insisting upon autos only. You would be amazed at the general and complete lack of knowledge out there these days among LE trainers where the DA revolver is concerned. In fact, that is now also true of the 1911.

If they have never shot one for anything other than familarization, never carried one and have no real idea how or why it works...or doesn't...why would they embrace it? Those of us who were responsible for switching to autopistols in LE so many years ago...and I freely admit being one...have now had the tables turned. You remember back when 'automatics always jam' was the cry? Today, 'revolvers are obsolete' is what we hear. Neither is, or ever was, complately true but it is what it is.

 

[Buford57]

Funny thing - in the mid-80s I convinced my bosses that patrolmen should be given "safety training" in making safe a semi-auto, in the event they should take one off a perp. Detectives could carry a 9mm SA/DA auto and were required to qualify with it, but were provided no training. Brass was afraid providing training would be seen as an endorsement of semis by the department (which were considered unreliable and unsafe) and the uniforms would want them. Within the next 3 years the department authorized 9s for all officers. About 5 years ago the last officer to carry a revolver (6" M-28) retired.

I wonder if any of the "Glock-only" agencies provide training in making safe a 1911, conventional SA/DA semi or a revolver...and what might happen if they did.

But I suppose thugs don't carry round guns anymore, either.