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Yea, and after erasing all those things from your memory you will have room to store all of the new information on, bullet back-out jams, Broken hand failures, revolver timing, Weak hammer spring misfire, inter-cylinder gap gas issues, forcing cone erosion, bullet shaving, reloader and moon clip carry methods, bent moon clips, reloader premature dump problems, and having six different chambers that all shoot just a little different. Yea, revolvers solve all the problems of handgun shooting.
This is funny!
"Forcing cone erosions" (like erosion of the forcing cone would jam the weapon in the middle of a fight.
Bent moonclips? Who uses moon clips? Oh you mean for the Reload! After you have already fired 6 times reliability!
Bullet shaving? You mean using lead bullets in you carry piece?
"Cylinder timing" You mean you went out with a broken weapon?
Everyone acknowledges the inherent reliability of a revolver over an auto. The advent of an 8 shot 357 Mag S&W simply means that the launcher in question is more reliable and has equal capacity to a 1911 with greater power and that bullet shape is irrelevant.
Please note I did not say that that revolvers "solve all the problems associated with handgunning" , you are trying to twist the argument. Leather, training, weapons size and weight and a thousand other difficulties are all factors that plague handgunners. But a revolver can deliver more power per shot, more reliability with less weight than any other weapon with equal if not better accuracy than nearly any auto. Plus its accuracy does not cause a drop in reliability as it does in a tight "Match" auto weapon.
Nor will I delve into the operator techniques necessary to make the auto more reliable such as the "two handed" shooting techniques necessary to allow recoil to operate the mechanism that are difficult or fatal at very close combat ranges like the "isosceles". The limp wristed, awkward angle, "just pull from the holster and bang is the worst situation for an auto, the most likely to jam
and the situation most common in defense shootings.
The adoption of the auto by police was a step backwards for police, surrendering power and reliability for "more bullets" that were never really necessary. The "double tap" (shooting two rounds close together") is an acknowledgment that auto rounds (in this case 45 FMJ) lack stopping power and require multiple hits, a charge never leveled against the 357 Mag, the 41 Mag, or the 44 Mag.
It's one factor where it is outclassed by the auto is total ammo load, which statistics show is a nearly irrelevant factor*. The study on auto vs revolver shootings found that auto wielders fired more and hit less and when they did hit, they hit more on the periphery than revolver shooters in actual gunfights**. (After reading that, I guess it IS good that Auto hold more bullets!)
But I digress.
*NYPD-SOP-9 Analysis of Police Combat
**Impact of handgun types on gun assault outcomes: a comparison of gun assaults involving semiautomatic pistols and revolvers, D C Reedy[sup]1[/sup] and C S Koper[sup]2[/sup]