6 Rounds?

[PiperSuperCubPilot]

Whet do you mean by "shoot better?"

If, as fastbolt sugeests, you are speaking of group size when shooting at a target at the range, slow-fire and firing single action, that's one thing. And six shots are plenty. You just reload.

But if you are speaking of defensive pistol shooing, where rounds available would be an issue, that's another thing. The training I mentioned in Post 30 will require some variation of hitting each of three torso sized targets twice or each of two targets three times at close range, in a total elapsed time of just over a second. Not to mention reloading very quickly.

Are you vastly better at that with a revolver?

Some people are very good with revolvers--Ed McGivern was very good, and Jerry Miculek is, but the vast majority of serious trainers and competitors choose semi-autos.

When I fire as quick as I can pull the trigger (double action), I get more hits in better groups, even with .357 magnum (albeit out of a 6" barrel L frame). This is at a still target, though.

 

[Sport45]

It's not really that I feel like 6 rounds isn't enough, it's just all these people saying it's not enough makes me question myself. If no one said differently I would have never considered that 6 shots aren't enough.

Whatever makes you feel comfortable is what you need to carry.

What I, or anyone else thinks is necessary should not enter into your decision. You know where you live, where you go, and what you do better than any of us.

It is all about perception. At the end of the day if you put your gun away without having to draw it in anger you really didn't need to carry it. But having it made you feel secure, just like the blanket you may have drug around as a toddler.

 

[barnbwt]

zzzzzzzzzzz__*snort*...Huh? We still doin' this? j/k

Take Sport's advice. Use what feels right as a basis. Better than starting with something you know feels uncomfortable. As you practice, you'll come to your own informed conclusions as to how to proceed with your self defense choices. When I get to where I can dump 6 rounds accurately out of my .357 before someone could jump me from 4 yards, I'd consider going higher.

I chose the TRR8 because it looks good, feels right, shoots great, is light, and optics can be easily mounted if I feel like being extra ridiculous at the range. The two extra rounds were merely a side effect of it being an N-frame , and just serve to make the gun "interesting" in my eyes. I'd feel just as "safe" with 5 in the chamber (since I could only get ~4 on target in time )

TCB

 

[OldMarksman]

Posted by Sport45:

Whatever makes you feel comfortable is what you need to carry.

Unless one has an informed, objective basis for one's decision--and that should include some high performance defensive pistol shooting training and some analysis of handgun wounding effectiveness and even better, experience in simulations using simunitions--how "comfortable" one "feels is meaningless.

 

[barnbwt]

That a question is asked at all, implies the lack of a sufficiently informed, objective basis to make a judgement on.

When I fire as quick as I can pull the trigger (double action), I get more hits in better groups, even with .357 magnum (albeit out of a 6" barrel L frame). This is at a still target, though.

The revolver sounds like a logical enough decision based just on this (unless we're assuming more inaccurate shots equals more hits, now...). If you do better with a semi in simulations shooting simunitions (that's hard to say!), you may want to change your mind; but I'd bet you wouldn't need our opinions to make that call, though

I know I don't have enough money to spend on tactical courses if I'm practicing enough, even if they do help. Practice more with both, you'll see which you're most effective with. If you have access to such a range where you can rent weapons for the weekend and run courses, that would be a sweet way to quickly figure out what works for you best. But I (most of us?) don't have access to such a Disneyland that doesn't require first joining a faraway country club and paying far out...I would if I could--and I'll leave it at that

TCB

 

[OldMarksman]

I know I don't have enough money to spend on tactical courses if I'm practicing enough, even if they do help.

The nine-hour course
i took cost less than many mid-to-upper level pistols, and it was a great investment.

Practice is very important, but it is important to make sure you are not practicing bad habits, which I was until I took the course.