Revolvers are Forever Liked.

[Adam Helmer]

dovehunter,

I have both revolvers and semi-auto pistols like you do. I will always take a revolver over a semi-auto in gravest extreme. I know it does not take more than 6 rounds to kill a Bad Guy or two BGs. A revolver is old technology, but it does not care if the prior round in the cylinder did not fire. A revolver does not depend on flawless magazines or a defective round in the magazine that refuses to chamber when it hits the fan!

Revolvers lasted so long because they were nearly "soldier proof." Semi-auto pistols are fine, but as a range officer for over 100 agents for 10 years, I saw far more problems with the Glock M17 or M19 than I ever saw with the S&W M10 2 and 4-inch guns that were our duty guns before we transitioned to the Glocks.

All the "Ready Action Drills", "Rap, Slap and Fire", and all the corrective actions for failure to feed, function and fire we were mandated to teach semi-auto pistol carriers left me cold. Give me a revolver in gravest extreme. I carried both in the projects. I like the M1911 Colt and it has failed me a time or two in 26 years, but it is a GREAT Zap when laid along side the head of a Bad Guy.

Adam

[powell&hyde]

Excellent point Adam.