Let me add something in favor of the wheelgun.
In ANY auto, you're supposed to buy 200 (or more if you want) rounds of quality defensive ammo and shoot it, to make sure it feeds reliably in that gun.
If it doesn't, you either pick another round and start over, or you try and tune the gun to be less ammo-picky with better magazines, feed ramp polish or whatever...and then shoot another 200.
The fact is, damned few people carrying an auto on the street have it loaded with a round they've done that testing with. OK? They either can't afford that much primo ammo (good stuff is a buck a shot or more) or they don't have the time/patience to do it right. Or they're carrying some new cool bullet and haven't tested it thoroughly yet.
OK? Basically, they're risking jams in a fight. Not good.
If there's a chance you're going to be one of those people, do yourself a favor and get a good revolver. Because they lack feed ramps, and don't use the round's mechanical energy to cycle the gun, they'll eat anything. Want to switch bullet types as often as most folks launder their sheets? Cool - have fun. Want to stagger rounds so that the first two are, say, good 38+P rounds at 250ft/lbs energy, the next three are potent 357s at 600ft/lbs energy and the last one is an 800ft/lb monster load from hell? No problemo.
The gun won't care.
I went shooting last weekend with a couple of friends who are into "tacticool" stuff...Kahr 45, Glock 40, Baby Eagle 9mm, etc. Watched 'em suffer jams now and again. Pinked away all day with my 357 and 22lr "matched set" of similar guns with zero issues. That's normal among people who are NOT "pros" (which included all three of us!).
If you have the money and time to do it RIGHT, by all means get into autos. But it will cost more in money and time to get a fully reliable setup.
