I feel I should first mention that I have always been an auto kind of guy, the more auto the better. I worked at Bushmaster Firearms for ten years before going back to school and have owned or at least shot just about everything there is at one time or another.
I have always enjoyed shooting semi auto pistols, and even full-auto ones. The Glock 18 was particularly fun, although I could barely keep it on the paper, let alone in the black. My point is, I like autos.
Recently I have gone completely over to revolvers. Some of my associates are concerned that perhaps my clutch is slipping. I don't think this is the case at all.
What I do think is that I've been sold a bill of goods with reguards to auto pistols. I've been led to believe that capacity is an important consideration when in fact it is a proven fact that if a conflict is three on one, the one will always lose. Every time. Ask any infantry officer. At two on one you have a reasonable chance of getting out alive.
Surviving any multiple assailant attack absolutely requires dynamic moving tactics that break up their attack, in effect reducing the odds against you at any given time. So in all actuality, firepower doesn't enter into this at all, as if you are going to survive each assailant must be dealt with individually.
Furthermore, I do have to kind of shake my head at all the people putting hundreds and even thousands of dollars into auto pistols to enable them the shoot as well as a two hundred dollar used S&W model 14. It amazes me sometimes that fads drive the economy so well. Not that I'm complaining, lots of folks are making a real good living off these fads.
Then there's caliber and cartridges, and although you could go on forever arguing this one or that one, the fact is that size-wise, revolvers have always had the upper hand with reguards to power. This is more true now than ever what with the J-frame .357 magnums.
While I don't mean to slam anyone who likes autos, I do think that revolvers are getting sold short as history repeats itself. Before the reasonably peaceful Edo period in feudal Japan, the spear was the weapon of choice, as anyone facing a well trained spearman was toast before they got within sword range.
Then came the peace, and most spears got put away, forgotten. They were considered ancient, awkward and bulky, and just not cool anymore. The sword, easily carried and used, came into full vogue despite the fact that a well trained spearman could still come out on top of any dispute between the two.
Finally the age of the spear passed by. It didn't mean it was a bad weapon, just that the sword was more popular. I see the same sort of thing happening now with reguards to revolvers. They just don't seem to be cool anymore, despite the fact that they are still generally more accurate and more powerful than most autos.
Again, I'm not trying to start any flame wars here, I just think people should give the revolver another look. It's far from the creaky old relic that popular rhetoric would seem to make it out to be.
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The M-16 is a damn fine weapon, but your best, your most lethal and effective weapon is between your ears. Ssgt Brown, Parris Island, 3rd Bn, H co. 1984.
I have always enjoyed shooting semi auto pistols, and even full-auto ones. The Glock 18 was particularly fun, although I could barely keep it on the paper, let alone in the black. My point is, I like autos.
Recently I have gone completely over to revolvers. Some of my associates are concerned that perhaps my clutch is slipping. I don't think this is the case at all.
What I do think is that I've been sold a bill of goods with reguards to auto pistols. I've been led to believe that capacity is an important consideration when in fact it is a proven fact that if a conflict is three on one, the one will always lose. Every time. Ask any infantry officer. At two on one you have a reasonable chance of getting out alive.
Surviving any multiple assailant attack absolutely requires dynamic moving tactics that break up their attack, in effect reducing the odds against you at any given time. So in all actuality, firepower doesn't enter into this at all, as if you are going to survive each assailant must be dealt with individually.
Furthermore, I do have to kind of shake my head at all the people putting hundreds and even thousands of dollars into auto pistols to enable them the shoot as well as a two hundred dollar used S&W model 14. It amazes me sometimes that fads drive the economy so well. Not that I'm complaining, lots of folks are making a real good living off these fads.
Then there's caliber and cartridges, and although you could go on forever arguing this one or that one, the fact is that size-wise, revolvers have always had the upper hand with reguards to power. This is more true now than ever what with the J-frame .357 magnums.
While I don't mean to slam anyone who likes autos, I do think that revolvers are getting sold short as history repeats itself. Before the reasonably peaceful Edo period in feudal Japan, the spear was the weapon of choice, as anyone facing a well trained spearman was toast before they got within sword range.
Then came the peace, and most spears got put away, forgotten. They were considered ancient, awkward and bulky, and just not cool anymore. The sword, easily carried and used, came into full vogue despite the fact that a well trained spearman could still come out on top of any dispute between the two.
Finally the age of the spear passed by. It didn't mean it was a bad weapon, just that the sword was more popular. I see the same sort of thing happening now with reguards to revolvers. They just don't seem to be cool anymore, despite the fact that they are still generally more accurate and more powerful than most autos.
Again, I'm not trying to start any flame wars here, I just think people should give the revolver another look. It's far from the creaky old relic that popular rhetoric would seem to make it out to be.
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The M-16 is a damn fine weapon, but your best, your most lethal and effective weapon is between your ears. Ssgt Brown, Parris Island, 3rd Bn, H co. 1984.
