I've never had an ejector break on a revolver. Never had the bottom fall out of a magazine on a revolver (3 times with semis). Never had a double feed with a revolver. Never had a jam with a factory load with a revolver. Never had a revolver throw the empty in my face. Nope, folks, the revolver is more reliable than the semi. I do have a couple semis that haven't malfunctioned so far but they will. It's nature of the beast.
Ive never had an ejector break either, but I have had a couple back out and tie the gun up.
Found out what crap under the extractor star can do too.
Never had the bottom fall out of a mag, and I shoot a lot more auto than I do revolver.
I have had a cylinder drop to the ground with a revolver during a reload though.
Ive also had moonclips cause issues with a couple of revolvers too.
Ive had cases hang up in the cylinder and wouldnt extract until beat out of the gun with a chunk of wood. Couldnt do it by hand.
Ive had empties in the face with a number of different autos, and Ive had revolvers spit lead on me. Think I prefer the brass.
Ive also had rounds jump their crimp with revolver rounds that moved forward under recoil and totally tied the gun up as the cylinder turned.
Ive also had squibs drive a bullet just into the forcing cone and it too locked the gun up tight.
If you shoot them long enough, sooner or later, youre going to find that revolvers can be a real bitch when things go south, and are usually DRT when they do.
Over the years, I got to expereince a lot, if not most of the problems that occur with them, and you live and learn.
Ejector rod threads and cylinder lock screws (and a few other things) get Loctite.
You always dump your empties, "muzzle up", and make sure that is spotless under the star when you clean. You also make sure the front face of the cylinder, and face of the barrel is clean.
You also make sure the chambers in the cylinder are spotless.
If you reload, you make sure you have a good crimp. The bullet backing out is one issue there, and bad crimps seem to be an issue with squibs, or at least thats been the case with me. Ive had a lot more squibs with revolvers for some reason, than I have with autos.
Squibs with an auto generally dont cycle the gun, and give you an indicator that trouble lies ahead if you continue. Revolvers just let you keep going.
As I said earlier, if you maintain your stuff, and use good ammo, I find they are pretty much even as far as reliability goes.
When there is trouble, especially if its in a time of dire need, I hope then, the gun in my hand is an auto.
Dont get me wrong here either, Ive had plenty of issues with the autos over the years too. 98% of the time when they happened though, I was right back in action with a TRB.