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Sonora Rebel wrote:
tekshogun wrote:
Sonora Rebel wrote:
A revolver... (any) is a mechanically antiquated weapon no matter what it fires. Unloading / reloading will always consume time... that you may not have. Some are fun to shoot... but for a primary self defense gun?If not in a calibre that will kill bears... .454/.500, they're rather 'iffy' compared to a semi-auto.
That is a joke, right?
Well, before anyone takes it seriously; Double Action revolvers are no more antiquated than semi-automatic handguns. They make seem old school but they aren't much older or younger than semi-autos.
No joke... the mechanics of the design itself is antiquated. How fast canJoe Averagedrop a mag and reload a semi auto compared to a cylinder? Then... there's the obvious ammo capacity. Sam Colt may have been a genius... but Paul Mauser completely eclipsed Colt's idea in 1896.
I wholly disagree. Sure the mechanism of operation is different, but once again, we're talking about modern revolvers, double action revolvers. To reload them, theoretically can take as short of a time as it does for you to grab a stripper clip and push the bullets down into that Mauser. Sure, loading of more modern semi-autos with their drop-and-pop magazines is
generally faster than using a speed-loader on a revolver, but may I point out that malfunctions occur far less on revolversthan semi-autos. "Failure to feed on a wheel gun?" I think not. The mechanism to turn the cylinder is so simple that there is rarely a moment it does not work. Revolvers have tolerances that semi-autos do not, such as not worrying about if your ammo is made by one manufacturer or the other or if it is a certain type of hollow point all of which give different types of semi-autos feed and cycle problems.
There is nothing antiquated, again I must state, about the design being that double action revolvers are no more older or younger than semi-auto handguns. Speed of reload, by it self, is hardly a determinant in one being better than the other. If we were talking about single action revolvers, sure, then speed of reload is a serious factor, but there is a lot more to revolvers that make them formidable weaopns, especially over semi-autos in many instances (accuracy, reliability, etc). Training goes a long way and I've seen people fumble with magazines and slide stops.
Revolvers remain a viable, capable, and useful weapon for self defense, as a backup gun or as a primary weapon.
If the Charter Arms Rimless revolvers turn out to be all we advocates hope it to be, then I plan on owning one as a self defense weapon and sometimes myprimary carry weapon depending on the situation.