Flyover_Country said:grobin said:Unfortunately the one big drawback o a revolver is that by and large—except for the BFP—they aren't available in a lot of cartridges. As for h TC and XP100 being impractical there speaks someone who as never used one. I fired a lot of rounds through my XP100 back when I was doing silhouette competition. I took a bunch of deer with it and with the 7mm-08 pistol I upgraded to (I'm still sorry I sold it).
But I like single action revolvers because they are easy to use with the 'point & shoot' technique. Besides they are just fun to shoot, particularly in the heaver calibers—well not so much in 45-70 as 30-30.
Revolvers are chambered in a fairly small number of cartridges, but as long as they cover the spread of the general intended usage of revolvers, then what is the issue? There are hundreds of very slightly different rifle rounds. Many are effectively identical for hunting purposes. You could likely do whatever you wanted to do with only about 10 of them, and half that many if attempting to shoot game beyond 300 yards was not required. For example, a rifle rack containing a .22 LR, .223 Rem, .30-06, .375 H&H, and a .458 Win Mag would be enough to hunt anything on the earth from chipmunk to elephant with an appropriately-sized rifle.
Shotgunners only have 6 gauges even remotely available, and of those 6, two comprise nearly the entire market. You hear no whining that we need an 11 gauge or other unique chamberings despite this lack of selection. Revolvers, like shotguns, can have a fairly wide spread in bullet weight and power level to use the same revolver on different game. The one type of cartridge revolvers generally are not chambered for is a small-caliber, high-velocity round used for silhouette such as the XP100's .221 Fireball. Silhouette is a very different game than hunting, though.
Well said!