stevelutah said:
Thread drift....
Yawn you sound like a young person. You were polite and I'm sharing this in the spirit of maybe showing you something that one day you will be glad you gave it another look. Do yourself a favour and look into revolvers. If they were not usefull do you think they would still be making them and people buying them? Do not be so quick to ignore them. Revolvers have a raft of uses and advantages over pistols. I'll list a few to peak your interest. Think about a gun sitting loaded in a drawer for say 20 years or longer. A revolver will sit there with no springs under compression, (Grampas revolver was in the dresser drawer for 50+ years-it will go bang). A pistol will have the mag springs and depending on action and and condition potentially other springs under compression.
Second is innexperienced people do better with a revolver. Non shooting girlfreinds an wives can pick up on how to use a revolver in one session. They get it. Pistols with magazines, racking, safteys, condition, clearing jams, etc cause greif especially if hand stregth is an issue. Not good under stress. I have trained several first time users and switched them to revolvers after being convinced the bad guy would take the weapon before they could reliably fire .vs. once they have it in hand and finger on the trigger the revolver is good to go.
What if you have an injured hand/arm ? Sounds far fetched. I know several people who one time or another were in this exact situation. Put one hand in your pocket and start with an empty weapon and a box of ammo.
There are other advantages that other could list.
O.P. apologises for the drift I am sure it was fun to run the range using an old stock mark 1. A testament to how good they coul be.
Well, I don't feel to bad about the thread drift as I think the original discussion had been coming to an end.
I truly do appreciate your response and especially the way you said what you said. I will start with your agreed upon point... Hand injuries. We had a lady in our church who had severe nerve damage in her hand. She lived alone, and couldn't rack the slide on her semi and ore and recoil was a big no no. But, a 8 - 10 round .22mag revolver was the answer. I had forgotten about that until now.
Having said that, I still just don't get it... And I really have given it thought, such as reading through your email. Yeah, I would probably be considered younger on this forum, mid 30's... So no, I don't have an emotional attachment to a revolver like in the good ole days or anything. I respect that people do... I just wonder if they realize that is what it is.
For instance... When they release the old Atari games on STEAM this year, I would be super interested in playing pit fall again. I highly doubt however that anyone who didn't play that game when it was cutting edge, would care to play it now. But I know that it is tied to emotional nostalgia.
Ok, so a neglected 50 year old revolver would still fire... I am not saying that there aren't remote instances where that would be a positive. There is a less chance, but still a chance that a high end well made semi, like a colt or sig would do the same. But even if not...
Almost no one uses analogues phones anymore... Even though they are the only phones that will function in an electrical power outage because they use the low volt only from the phone lines. In fact... Most people use digital VOIP phone lines now, even thought they completely fail in a power outage. Why, because the benefits far outlay the couple negatives in everyday life.
That is the same with the revolver... It is old tech.
As for what the inexperienced do... I hear you, but I disagree with your thinking. People aren't experienced until they have experiences... So why start them with a revolver? If they are inexperienced, they are probably just shooting and maybe reloading. Shooting a semi that is in fire mode is pretty much the same as shooting a revolver... You pull the trigger. Sure, reloading is a little different... But that just means you have more to discuss with them. Maybe the first few times you do it so that they can watch. What your saying is equivalent to someone who has never been trout fishing. Rather than taking the extra time to explain how to cast out, how the drag works, how to fight a fish, and to real in... You give them a flexible stick with a 10 foot line tied to the small end of the stick. At the other end of the line is a hook and a sinker. YOu bate it for them and tell them to toss it in the water. They may catch a fish... They are fishing, but aren't really any closer to modern fishing. This would apply to someone learning to fly fish.
I hear what you are saying.... But to me, your comments are proving that revolvers are old tech. I respect that people love and use them. I know people who still love and use records, CDs, and even cassettes... They love those things. Great for them... Truly. But, they have to realize that they have an emotional connection to old outdated tech... For some because relearning everything isn't worth time. I get it... Totally do... But like my SR45. It is a great gun, but it is what it is, and nothing more. It isn't more accurate than a sig... Probably never will be.
Good convo!! Thanks