I love revolvers because...

My first handgun was a 4" model 65-3. It cost me $209 shipping included. I CCW'd it for the better part of a year until I could afford to buy a pair of 3" model 65-5's to carry. I paid less than $300 apeice for each of them shipped.

I shudder to think how much I would have had to spent to get my self a pair of 1911 platform style pistols up and running, reliable enough to CCW with confidence. Not to mention the extra mags springs ect....Don't get me wrong I'm a 1911 fan. No other gun feels as good in my hand but if money is an object.... you can't beat the used wheelgun.

Just this last weekend at the local gun show I held a Nagant revolver for the first time. I had always ignored them because they seemed so ugly.... but as I picked it up I was pleasantly suprised at how egronomic the grip was and how well it pointed in my hand. Once again I found myself admiring the simplicity and beauty of the wonderful wheelgun..... and Oh yeah.... their wasn't anything wrong with the price. :)
 
wheel guns

Want to have some real fun?shoot a colt 38 S&W or a smith in 32 or 38 S&W
I have 7 antiques and i love um like my kids.well almosssttttttt
 
I was a confirmed bottom feeder fan until a couple of years ago. Revolvers didn't interest me, until I went to a local gunshow and picked up a Highway Patrolman with a 6" barrel. There was something about that big old gun that just grabbed me. Revolvers speak to a different time. I guess you might even call them romantic - in the adventerous sense of the word. Trekking through the jungles of central africa seeking the lost city of Zanazibar, taking on banditios in the Sierra Madre, and, of course, taking down bank robbers at lunch time with your Model 29 - while still chewing on your hot dog. There's just something about the wheelguns.
 
Inspector Callahan

taking down bank robbers at lunch time with your Model 29 - while still chewing on your hot dog.
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That scene, when I was about twelve years old, is the one that made revolvers, to me anyway, so much cooler than autos :D
 
Not a better thread to write my first post than this one.

While I'm reading in bed, sometimes I'll pick up my S&W 640 on the nightstand and just look at it. Feel its craftsmanship. Stare at the polished steel. Remove the cartridges, and spin the cylinder. Slide the cartridges back in and listen to that "click" as the cylinder closes.

THAT'S how much I love revolvers.

:cool:
 
revolver are neat

I had a 22/22mag revolver once. it was ruger and flawless. no matter where the cylinder was it would always line up and fire when you pulled the hamer back.
it was a perfect piece of workmenship :) :) :)
 
Man, what a thread. I've got a G19 and a Kimber, buying a 642 next month, first wheelgun. Going to be a summer ccw piece.

Why a 642? it has S&W on the side ... Looked at Kel-tec and the rest of the small autos. They were not S&W. Even with the stupid lock, a piece of history.
 
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