frommycolddeadhands
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thorvaldr wrote:
To each their own I suppose. I've always loved the simplicity and reliablility of revolvers and in most situations I'd take a lever action rifle or a break shotgun without any hesitation. I've had my .38 revolver for a couple of years now, and put a few hundred rounds downrange with it. It's only failed to fire twice in four years, (due to dud ammo, not because of the firearm) and when it does I just pull the trigger again and it goes bang.
I'm more comforatable with a revolver or a break action because that's what I'm used to using. Heck, I'd even be comforatable with a single action revolver in most cases/places. I just bought my first semi-auto pistol, and I'm still getting used to having to flip a safety switch off, and I'm still a bit uncomforatable walking around with one round in the pipe (I always leave the chamber under the hammer empty when carrying my wheelgun) So I guess it's a learning experience. I always look to reliability and shootability in a gun before I even begin considering ammo capacity or start evaluating stopping power. To me it doesn't make sense carrying around a .50 caliber cannon if it misfires half the time and I can't hit the broad side of the barn with it, no matter how much 'oomph' it packs or how many bricks it can spray out in any given second. Politics don't really compel me to buy any particular sort of gun. I just go with what I'm comforatable with.
Again, that's just me.
thorvaldr wrote:
To each their own I suppose. I've always loved the simplicity and reliablility of revolvers and in most situations I'd take a lever action rifle or a break shotgun without any hesitation. I've had my .38 revolver for a couple of years now, and put a few hundred rounds downrange with it. It's only failed to fire twice in four years, (due to dud ammo, not because of the firearm) and when it does I just pull the trigger again and it goes bang.
I'm more comforatable with a revolver or a break action because that's what I'm used to using. Heck, I'd even be comforatable with a single action revolver in most cases/places. I just bought my first semi-auto pistol, and I'm still getting used to having to flip a safety switch off, and I'm still a bit uncomforatable walking around with one round in the pipe (I always leave the chamber under the hammer empty when carrying my wheelgun) So I guess it's a learning experience. I always look to reliability and shootability in a gun before I even begin considering ammo capacity or start evaluating stopping power. To me it doesn't make sense carrying around a .50 caliber cannon if it misfires half the time and I can't hit the broad side of the barn with it, no matter how much 'oomph' it packs or how many bricks it can spray out in any given second. Politics don't really compel me to buy any particular sort of gun. I just go with what I'm comforatable with.
Again, that's just me.
