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nakedshoplifter wrote:
Did you intentionally leave HK off the list?
Yah. I initially had it up there, but as it was shaping up had to drop a few obvious ones since the poll function is limited to 10 options...
It should be apparent the poll pretty much takes the view that most carry is being done with semi-autos nowadays. That's just the way it is. But I wanted to add kind of a baseline, so I put the S&W revos in there, which works out nicely since I allowed multiple answers.
The poll is set up to produce a little bit of data--for amusement, discussion and possibly some insight. In this environment, such a poll is decidedly non-rigorous. It's for fun. So any methodological criticisms are, um, well, you know...
Tomahawk
wrote:
HankT
wrote:
Just your perception.Youmay or may not own one.
Well, if that's the case, I would say revolver, any brand. The S&W revolvers have great reputations, but traditional Colt/Ruger SAA pistols are reliable too,although a bit slow and impracticle for modern carry. I have a Blackhawk .45, and it's easily the most dependable bang device I own.
Heck, even a Pietta/Remington '58 cap and ball revolver is totally reliable. I have one of those that has NEVER failed to fire all six rounds, even after leaving it loaded for months on end with Pyrodex pellets.
Thus it's hard to nail it down to a
brand, rather I would choose a
design.
Well, good, now that we got you to read the
whole post, it's good to get your participation, 'hawk.
It's not really hard to nail it down to a brand, though. It's pretty easy, actually. You confuse thisdifficulty with the simplefact that there aremultiple ways to look at reliability--actually perceived reliability. Brand is one. Design, type of gun, functional, manufacturing era, manufacturing process, country of origin, etc., are all good ways to do it. Dependson what you want to know.
As you can tell (well,
maybe you can) the listofbrands ended up being almost exclusively semi-automatics.I would have made it totallysemis but I wanted to include the comparison to the revos (yes, I realize that other revo manufacturers aren't in there---again, the limitation is 10 options) for snicks.
Hey,how'd you vote, 'hawk?
And if you think it's a good perspective to look atreliability of design, why not start your own poll thread on that subject. I promise to voteand comment in it. Might becool to compare the tworesults.... I encourage youdo set up up a poll--for discussion, comment, stories, etc.
