And even when it doesn’t (perhaps the primer fails), he can always just pull the trigger again (assuming DA) or recock (assuming SA) and the cylinder turns bringing a new round. With a semi, you have to rack the slide. I love semis but revolvers still have plenty going for them.
Revolvers are much easier to clean. Run a few patches with solvent through the barrel and cylinder.
You have to break down a semi-auto to clean it. Once the slide is off then you have the barrel free to clean. Some guns can be tricky to get back together.
This, definitely.
You’re not claiming that kind of accuracy with a revolver, or with any kind of pistol, are you?
Freedom Arms guns are known for their 1-1.5 inch potential at that range. (Scoped and rested)
Check the groups near the bottom of the page.
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If you want a firearm that you can put in a drawer and still have it fire when you pull it out of drawer 5 years later, then a revolver is your best choice. Magazine springs will tend to lose tension over time, so should rotate your magazines on a regular basis. A revolver won’t jam if one round misfires.
Nitpick: I’ve read that that’s not true; it’s constantly compressing and releasing the spring that wears it.
I saw 3.5 and 2 plus inch groups. Thats fantastic for a pistol and pretty good for a rifle but nowhere close to 1 inch. I wish I had 2k laying around it would be a treat to shoot a pistol that accurate.
I’ve seen some gun magazine tests that got into the near inch range. I think they were using a Ransom Rest but I don’t remember for sure.
Here’s one test. With a .22LR no less.
100 yd group.
They’re beautiful, collectible, often more accurate then Semi-Auto.
“Auto matic” hand guns are extremely difficult to get, I’m not sure folks outside of LE or military can get them.
There are other reasons too, reasons an outlaw would want one but I’m not sure if the TOS allows me to say. I’m the new guy so I am trying to be polite.
There was a guy named Michael Moore ( oddly enough ) he was an eighty yr old African American man living in the notorious Bay Point ghetto of San Francisco, He had an 50 yr old revolver that he never cleaned or used for thirty yrs. A hood rat broke into the mans house and attempted to kill Mr Moore despite him being very cooperative.
The revolver worked fine!!:D:cool:
I remember reading that story… he bought a revolver and a box of ammo, went to the range and tried it out, then took it home, put it into a shoebox and shoved it under his bed and left it there until somebody broke into his apartment and walked into his bedroom with a crowbar in the middle of the night.
yeah that’s it! On the gun boards I frequent they often tell you how terrible SF and CA is for honest self defense but the good guy got in no trouble.
Oh, WITH countless people. Never mind then.
Many years ago a firefight broke out in the apt next to mine (drug dealer/ under cover cop) and I reached for my 1911 and tried to chamber a round. Yep, it jammed. Now the gun in my nightstand drawer is a revolver.
As an old guy with arthritis I had difficulty working the slide and loading the clips. Those problems don’t exist with a revolver.
Metallic silhouette shooting reaches to 200 meters and power that far downrange is required. The contests are almost never won by any kind of automatic; mainly magnum revolvers or single-shot pistols chambered for rifle rounds.
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