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sharps4590
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Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?
09/10/23 08:12 AM

As a former LEO back in the days when the semi-auto was just beginning to be accepted in law enforcement circles, I'll take a revolver every time. 15 rounds don't mean spit if you can't hit anything with them.

Unless one is highly, highly trained a DA revolver is still faster from the holster and first shot than any semi. Semi-autos have poor pointability, their grip angle is all wrong, especially the Glock, with the possible exception of the 1911 and Luger. Seen it too many times at short distances shots were feet low. A friend thought he could drill center of a 6 inch bullseye at 4 feet every time with his semi-auto. Even with me standing there coaching he never got within 2 feet of it, always low. I hadn't done any "point shooting" in 30 years and just for fun I wanted to see how bad I'd gotten. Same target, same distance with my S&W 696, first shot was 3-4 inches left and in line with the black. A near unconscious correction in a split second and the next 4 all cut near the center of the black, fast DA fire.

As Skeeter Skelton once wrote in an article, "I'm a revolver man", SA or DA, doesn't matter.

Hunting and long range shooting the revolver is still king. Just for grins and giggles, at first, my oldest son and I started playing with an out of the box Ruger Blackhawk, no tuning, in 45 Colt at 500 yards. In not many shots the grins and giggles went away and we got serious about it. It didn't take long and we were hitting a 5 gal. bucket 3 or 4 out of 6 rounds and was always close enough to make a man nervous. 300 yards and the bucket was a gimme. It should be obvious all shooting was done from a solid rest. Try that with a "regular, out of the box" semi-auto. For hunting, there's no comparison between the two, revolver all the way.

Having said all that, I have a soft spot for 1911's, P-38's and the CZ 83's and 84's but, I have no illusions as to my ability with them versus a revolver.

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Edited by sharps4590 (09/10/23 08:14 AM)

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Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	12/05/23 03:00 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	lancaster	12/05/23 05:53 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Marrakai	12/05/23 11:47 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	85lc	13/05/23 12:37 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	JHeath	27/09/23 05:04 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	27/09/23 09:19 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	27/09/23 04:09 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Hunter4752001	27/09/23 04:56 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	degoins	30/09/23 01:43 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	JHeath	04/10/23 10:48 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Rule303	05/10/23 09:21 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Bindi2	05/10/23 10:51 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	05/10/23 01:48 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	05/10/23 06:10 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	05/10/23 06:25 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Bindi2	05/10/23 07:03 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Rule303	05/10/23 09:46 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Bindi2	05/10/23 10:47 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	05/10/23 11:40 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	poprivit	06/10/23 02:42 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	06/10/23 03:11 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Bindi2	06/10/23 01:36 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	06/10/23 01:52 PM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	sharps4590	09/10/23 08:12 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	09/10/23 11:30 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	sharps4590	10/10/23 08:20 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	Rule303	10/10/23 10:57 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	DarylS	11/10/23 07:51 AM
Re: Are Revolvers still relevant?	NitroX	05/10/23 09:39 PM

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