What WheelGun Would You Carry if You Were Made a Deputy TODAY??

Dayvid23 said:
Not to start a firestorm, but why would you pick a revolver over a semi? More shots, faster reloading. Maybe wrong place to ask, but if I was suddenly in a leo position, wouldn't a semi make more sense, as much as we love the wheel guns?
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..when LEOs carried mainly revolvers the average number of rounds fired in a gunfight was 2.5. Last stats I saw with almost everyone now carrying semis is 7....and 7% of the time a reload is involved. Hit rate was in the 20% range...now it is down around 10%...go figure.

It isn't what you carry...it is what you do with it.

I carried both while on the street for close to 25 years...having just 6 rounds in the gun made no difference. 99% of the people I knew who had been in gunfights ended it with 1-2 rounds. None involved a reload....and that is a couple hundred shootings.

As to what I would carry today revolver wise...any good 4" .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum or .45 ACP would be fine. 125 gr. JHPs for the .357 and most any .41 ammo... Final favorites would be a 686 Mountain Gun or Ruger GP100 in .357 and in .41 a 657 Mountain Gun or older 58. .45 wise a 625 Mountain Gun would ride nicely.

Bob
 
Lets say you are hired as an LEO, a Probation Officer, D.A. Investigator, or some other position that requires you to carry. You can carry OWB or IWB, your choice.

Patrol: 6 shot 4" 686-1 with .357 125 grain Gold Dot loads. Backup: 2" 60 loaded with 135 grain .38 +P Short Barrel. 2 speedloaders for the .357

Probation Officer, D.A. Investigator, or some other position that requires you to carry: 65-2 3" Loaded with .357 135 grain Gold Dot Short Barrel. Same Model 60 and .38 load for back up. 2 speedloaders.

I have all of the above mentioned guns at home and could just put them to work. :)

Do you think your revolver pick would put you at any disadvantage because you didn't pick an auto?

No. I shoot revolvers very well and trust them.
 
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If I had to carry a gun as part of my occupation, I would go back to college and get an engineering degree, so I would not need to carry a gun.

Oh, that is what I did!! :eek:

Why consider a wheel gun at all? :confused:

From an engineers point of view, I would want the most function available, when considering ALL parameters and circumstances.

A wheel gun can not suit the masses or situations like an autoloader.

I am a wheel gun guy, but, I believe I will NEVER have a need to use it for protection.

That said, this is my favorite non-rimfire:

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I purchased it to replace these:

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Years back, carried a 6" Python in a shoulder holster. Current carry gun is a full size or Officer's size Colt 1911. Using a wheel gun today, on a belt, 4" Python or 4" 629-4 Classic with full loads.
 
Same thing I started with, Model 57 4" with Silvertips. Still have it and the speed loaders. New leather gear would be required depending on assignment.
 
Of revolvers that I have previously owned, I'd go with the Thunder Ranch 325. Of those I currently own, a 3" Model 65 for ease of use or a 6" 29-3 for big boom power.
 
It would have to be the Model 66 with a 4" bbl. I carried one for years and wold still be carrying it it allowed.
 
Groo here
When I started, many moons ago, I carried a 4in Nickel Python.
The SS guns had just started and the best no rust finish was nickel.
I later went to a M-25 in 45 Colt.
The Python is the "hit with it no matter what gun" and the N-frame size gun just fit.
Never wormed up to the L frame , K frame or the smaller ruger,
the Gp-100 is different though.
Now, at my age , with what I learned, I would use an N frame light weight with SS cylinder and a Sub 4in barrel as a duty gun.
For off duty or civities, a 3in j frame SS or light weight K frame.
the Cartridge would depend on where I work.
We would start with a 357mag in the small gun.
The N- frame would be a 45acp , auto rim for first loading and
Moons for the rest.
Out west there is no choice, The 41Mag!!!!!!
Flat shooting like a 357, hard hitting like a 44, but I can still shoot
fast double action shots like a 357 with full magnum 210's.
Now if Colt made a 41 Python ' wish'...........
 
FUN THREAD!!!!

I decided to answer this on the basis of what I have presently, not what I would buy. So I actually have to go with the very first gun identified, a Model 27 Classic, 4" barrel. Since as an LEO I'd probably be carrying at least two speed-loaders I don't think I'd feel terribly under-gunned. If I did, then I'd switch to my 2.5" barreled M686+ and add 1 more round of firepower.

Despite what we see on television, and in the movies, and not counting the very few incidents where LEOs dumped whole magazines into perpetrators, I have yet to read more than a very few stories where a revolver was insufficient to solve the problem at hand. The "Miami Massacre" comes to mind and the "LA Bank Shootout". If there are more I cannot think of them.

In every mass shooting case I can think of in recent years, if the killers didn't kill themselves, the police stopped them with very few rounds fired. If there are exceptions I simply cannot think of them.

If I was going to be out of uniform, like a detective or something, I'd carry a 2" M10 or a 2.5" Model 19 under my coat. I might carry a M642 as a pocket BUG in those clothes.

***GRJ***
 
I'm going to go with a 627 here, with a 686+ as my second choice. That's assuming uniformed patrol duty. For an investigative assignment I think I would track down a 2.5" 66 or 19.
 
I realize its late in the game, However my choice of a carry revolver would be a 2.5" 686 7 shot with bantam grips, in a very svelte holster.
1-2 speed loaders also.
 
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