bedbugbilly
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Emmmmm ... 'cause it's a Taurus?Give me one reason why this .44 would be irrelevant.
Lol, as a long time RSO I have seen many semi's that were very difficult to clear with a jam. You forgot to mention that there are more frequent jams with semi's, yes, many can be cleared easily, but that does not excuse the fact that it happens. Heck, I have seen whole slides sent down range with semi's. And there are many that have had to take jammed semi's to a gun smith. I do not own a Taurus, never have, but I can say this, I have not seen the issue with Their revolvers having many problems. I knew the Taurus bashing would come up as soon as I saw the picture. You saw one particular gun fail, so have you ever seen a semi fail and post about it?Emmmmm ... 'cause it's a Taurus?
Saw one of those lock-up on the range. Cylinder stuck super-tight. Would't turn or even wiggle. Took the guy's local 'smith two hours using a mallet to get it open and working.
Most "jams" in a semi-auto can be cleared quickly in the filed - by hand - through one of several immediate action drills.
But when the cylinder of a revolver locks-up, you're done without time and tools ... except possibly for using it as an impact weapon.
Majorly missed the point there, bucky ...Any gun can fail. Seeing one fail really means nothing. Was the gun in good condition, maintained, how many rounds and on and on.
Majorly missed the point there, bucky ...
Yes, any "gun" can fail. Not the point. Keep 'em clean, yadda, yadda. Still not the point.
Between those handguns we call revolvers and those we call semi-autos, it indisputable that when a revolver fails in the field - as in a cylinder lock-up - it's utterly and entirely out-of-action. When a wheelgun fails in that way, it's catastrophic in terms of an immediate operational remedy.
That's not the case 99.9% of the time with autoloaders.
Yes, I've had times, usually with reloads, where an out of spec case or such wedged itself in the chamber so tightly that the immediate action of trying to clear it free by hand-cycling didn't work. This happen with a 1911. The slide wouldn't budge and a mallet was needed to free it open and expel the bad round out.
But that's rare. Most "jams" with semis can be freed and cleared by hand. They actually have drills for that, if you check around.
The only immediate-action drill for a revolver with a bound-up cylinder is to, first, cuss a lot and loudly, and second, grab your cell phone and speed-dial your gunsmith.
Glad you value gold. Know which country has some of the largest amounts of gold? India.
I'll back my US dollar any day over India.
Now that is funny. And so true. How the heck did they even survive without a High Capacity Micro 9mm? Ya gotta love the internet. Getting back to the original topic, I think there are more than enough post to say, Hell yes they are still relevant. And will be for a very long time.It’s amazing that for the first 150 years of this nation, that anyone ever survived carrying a revolver. The way all the armchair experts expound on it, you’d think they would have all been killed.
This may come as a surprise, but most EDC owners are not police or military. Paranoid home owners only carry revolvers? As opposed to non paranoid home owners that have combat shotguns, AR's and all kinds of Semi's?It seems that revolvers will indeed be relevant for some gun collectors, sportsmen, some paranoid homeowners who want to grab that thing from the nighstand to fire all 6 rounds ASAP and some hunters. The reality is - the are no longer being used by the military, police and even by criminals.