Is it time to put revolvers in the museum?

Is it time to put revolvers in the museum?

Are you for real?

No way, Revolvers are amazing, name the auto thats made in 454, 500 and 44 magnum etc.......


Revolvers have no magazine which mean it can stay loaded for years and now worry about springs/feeding problems.

I enjoy shooting 22lr revolvers, no pesky magazines @ $30 ea or $15 ea. I just load up and shoot, non of that magazine presing down wearing out your fingers.
 
said it before, ill say it again. im strictly an auto guy. gimme a 1911 with 8 or 7 +1. that being said revolvers are a great option for backup. never under estimate something deemed obsolete. glocks and berettes are viewed as supreme and some of the highest technilogically advanced compared to browning hipowers and 1911a1s but yet a good milspec SA will fire until the rails disentigrate if you keep it clean. i would mind keepin a .357 snub loaded with 38 +P in an ankle of inside pants holster along with my Springer loaded model.
 
I started shooting in earnest about 7 months ago.

It is fun. I bought my first gun about 5 months ago. I started with a semi. I now have two. However, I also have two revolvers.

Now I love my semis, but I also REALLY love my revolvers.
They are a far more visceral experience for me.
 
First of all:
aarondhgraham said:
Send your revolver donations to:

Aarond H. Graham
Museum of Outdated Firearms

C/O: The Evil Pawn Shop
Stillwater, OK 74074

I thank you in advance,,,

Aarond
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Ha! I wish I'd thought of that.

Second, no. Revolvers still have their place outside a museum. I frequently recommend them to new shooters, particularly ones who are interesting in CCing, due to their simplicity of operation.

Revolvers = The Original Point & Click interface. :D
 
It can take me hours to get the carbon rings out of my Trooper and sp101 after the kids spend an afternoon dumping .38 specials out of them....
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Chore Boy! Cut some off, wrap it around a brush and have at it. Use with good solvent or carbon cutter.
 
If someone is in your face or on top of you and you jam an auto in thier gut you just might push the auto out of battery and it will not fire. On the other hand you can poke someone in the ribs as hard as you want and the revolver will still fire. Ayoob also made the point that if you do fire the auto that there is a chance it will be clogged with blood and meat after the first shot. The revolver should keep right on cycling. To me thats a real advantage.
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The problem is technique, not gear.

Press, and then back off a bit. Works fine, even with Simunitions training guns that jam if you look at them funny.

And, if you want power, just buy a revolver in 454 Casul. Try fitting that cartridge into a Glock!


The comparison of revolvers to 8 track tapes or vinyl records is, on its face, misleading and incorrect.

8 tracks and vinyl have been replaced by fundamental chances in the technology of the entire industry -- namely digitalization of music vs. analog.
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Millions of video game players would argue with you! Guns have been digitized and they're experts with them.
 
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I've seen some revolvers that were certainly beautiful enough to be in a museum.

But in key ways the usefulness of revolvers has never waned. Reliability and simplicity are good things to have in a stressful situation.
 
The problem is technique, not gear.

Press, and then back off a bit. Works fine, even with Simunitions training guns that jam if you look at them funny.
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I don't know how many fights you have been in but I have been in a few and know you can't always pick how you get jumped. And pushing away is fine if you are not being held in a bearhug.

It happened to my dad who apparently got in fights on a regular basis. He said the guy about squeezed him to the point of blacking out. My dad got a small knife out and raked the other guys back several times till he figured out he was being cut to ribbons. He let my dad go and dad was out the door and down the road as fast as he could go.
 
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Try selling an auto to a one armed man.
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Or someone with arthritis, carpal tunnel, or to someone who doesn't have the hand strength. I have helped many shooters transition from automatics to revolvers because the mechanical aspect is too daunting or difficult.

(And yes, it's usually a woman whose "expert" spouse/brother/armchair commando forced a small automatic on her as a first gun)

That's the entire point I've been trying to make, and Tom Servo keeps taking us off topic!
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Yeah, you can take your mp3's and your iPods and your newfangley plastic guns and...OK, Uncle Servo's had his heart pills. Deep breath.

There is a tenuous parallel. I like the sound signature of old audio technology. Others will call me a Luddite for that, but I get a very real benefit.

The same attitude goes for many folks regarding revolvers. The idea is, if I'm carrying one, I'm doing so for nostalgia, or I can't handle an automatic, or I'm looking to rob a stagecoach. That's not necessarily the case.

(Especially since the only stagecoach I can find is that guy in the park, and he's got pepper spray.)

Revolvers are still around because they work for many people. Slow to shoot? Slow to reload? You might be surprised. I ran an IDPA match today in which two of the top five competitors used revolvers.

Just because it's not one man's best choice doesn't mean it's not a good choice for another.
 
these are fun..

the only semi autos ive ever seen are lugers, mausers, the original p-38s, and of course hitlers pocket pistol. and 1911s.

the modern crop of semi autos since ww2 are well never going to have the prestige or quality of that ww1 luger. nor the value.


the only semi autos for serious hunting are going to cost at least 2500 retail. compare that to say a redhawk for 900 retail.
 
the desert eagle is chambered in .44AMP isn't it? Try finding that at a decent price.

and the .50AE is for wussies. :D If you want to shoot a real .50 get the S&W500. :p
 
If you are not willing to go out and practice with your gun at least once a month you probably should not depend on a semi for SD. The beauty of a revolver is its simplicity; safety to worry about, no jams to learn how to clear, no racking of the slide to chamber around when in a panic situation. You merely point at your target and pull the trigger. They can also sit loaded in a drawer or a safe to 5 years and if you them out and pull the trigger you can be assured they will probably go off, I don't think I would be as sure about a semi auto.
I do go out and practice with my 9mm Cougar and feel like I'm fairly proficient with it but my wife does not and that is why there is a 38spl snubby in the gun safe right next to the Cougar. That being said, for the simplicity reasons my personal carry is a Ruger LCR, I figure in an emergency I don't want to have too much to think about. I am not a trained LEO or military special OPS soldier, for them a high capacity Semi makes perfect sense.
Insofar as the cleaning issue I fail to see how a revolver is so hard to clean, you don't have to take them apart and fiddle around reassembling them to clean them.
 
I had to do it, took some of the old museum pieces out for a little fresh air and exercise. They were duly grateful going by the grin they put on my face.

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Thought I'd stop back by and check in again ...

I'm reminded of the times when I take one of my larger magnum revolvers when I'm working a range session. It always seems to throw off the younger folks when someone else takes a LOUD revolver, belching fire and smoke, and clears a qual course-of-fire faster than the folks using less powerful semiautos.

It also tends to bring a slight smile to the faces, and a twinkle to the eyes, of the remaining older generation of instructors who used to carry wheelguns. ;)

If I were going to return to working my last plainclothes assignment again, and I was permitted to carry a 7-shot S&W 686 with a short barrel, I'd feel perfectly at ease and well-equipped. (My last issued pistol was a 7+1 capacity 4513TSW, for that matter.)

While the LE shootings that involve high round counts do occur, and always seem to get the attention, folks tend to forget that many more shooting events occur in which only 1-6 shots are fired by the involved LE.
 
I've purchased two new revolvers in the past 18 months. Amazingly, neither has had to be returned to the factory with complaints of FTF, FTE, stovepipe, jams, light primer strike, et al. I pull the trigger and they always bark.

I shoot mine because it's just plain fun. Then again, I still have and listen to vinyl records, prefer a watch with hands and think Martinis are made with gin.
 
Geez...where to begin Red...I love mine...Smith's from the 30's to the present time...Colts, not many, but much loved from the turn of the last century to the present...all reliable, all more accurate out of the box than most any auto...I love 'em....but I love my auto's too...so where's that leave us...Rod
 
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