Newbie question: does a 9mm revolver exist?

taurus 905 is by far the cheapest option, personally have had a good experience with taurus, but i only own one, others might have a different opinion on them

but the taurus 905 is on sale for 329$ at my local gun shop, very light and looks the same as the 605
 
it seems odd to me that the sw ejecting (if true) revolvers in 9mm didnt catch on better than they did despite the alleged higher machining costs. regular shooters coudl have made the difference up with shooting more cheap 9mm rounds.

the charter 9mm extracing revolver only seems slightly different than the decades older sw so i dont understand why much is being made of it...a fraudulent 'much' i guess. or why a crude revolver from a tiny company is the one remaking the extracting 9mm wheelgun
 
it seems odd to me that the sw ejecting (if true) revolvers in 9mm didnt catch on better than they did despite the alleged higher machining costs. regular shooters coudl have made the difference up with shooting more cheap 9mm rounds.
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It's not totally clear by your post if you're addressing the Smith & Wesson revolvers directly, but if you are...

Smith & Wesson really never made those 547's for the American sales market. Those guns were developed for an overseas service/police contract and the contract went bad so they were cleared out back here. IIRC, they only made about 10,000 of them.

Also, at the time, 9mm ammo wasn't much (if any) of a savings over .38 Special ammo. Perhaps if you were buying chinese milsurp 9x19 you could save a buck, but for mainstream ammo from Federal, Remington or Winchester, .38 Special was the most popular handgun round in the country.
 
Don't know if this has been covered yet, but there is a 9mm federal, a rimmed round, that I recommend that you avoid. Use of a rimless round with moon clips is good. Use of a rimmed round with speedloaders isn't as good as moon clips, in my experience.

Do not wind up with a 9mm revolver that was intended for the 9mm rimmed.
 
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one (unless I missed it in reading the posts?) . . .

Ruger now offers the LCR in 9mm Luger .
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Maybe because the last post before this zombie thread was resurrected is over a year old! And Ruger just recently announced the 9MM LCR.:eek::D
 
It seems to me that all of the 9mm revolvers I've seen are based on .38/.357 models, which doesn't really take advantage of the shorter 9mm cartridge length. I wonder if there would be a market for a scaled down compact revolver, with a shorter cylinder, designed around the 9mm or .40 round, sort of like the old I frames.
 
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It seems to me that all of the 9mm revolvers I've seen are based on .38/.357 models,
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Maybe a shorter cylinder, but the 9MM has the same SAAMI pressure rating as the 357 Magnum, 35,000PSI. So a 9MM revolver requires 357 Magnum strength.
 
The original Taurus 905 used a shorter frame and cylinder. Why they stopped doing this and went to a .38 size frame I don't know.
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The 905 was always a regular .38 sized gun, they made the 905IB (Instant Backup) for a while with a bobbed hammer and shorter cylinder and frame. I had one for a while and did not find that the 1/4" shorter frame and cylinder offered any sort of advantage. The weight difference was wasn't enough to matter and, of course, no one made holsters for it. It also didn't have any ballistic advantage over a regular 905. It is one of those ideas that sounds good in theory but doesn't translate to real life well. Even Taurus figured it out and quit making them before too long.
 
S&W 986

The S&W 986 is a very nice 7 shot 9mm revolver. 5" barrel, 35 ounces. It is in production, but is somewhat expensive. I received one two weeks ago, and expect it will become my favorite range gun. The moonclips work great.
 
Since tis Halloween, and this zombie is walkin'..I'll add a bit more to the corpse...;)

For those of you who weren't around then, and probably don't realize it, before the adoption of the 9mm as the US service cartridge, there was virtually ZERO market interest for a DA 9mm revolver in the US.

Small numbers of DA 9mm revolvers did hit the market, from time to time, either special orders from a distributor, or guns made for sale overseas, generally.

US shooters simply weren't interested in a DA 9mm then, and overall, not many are now. People wedded to the 9mm Luger as a defensive round generally don't care to be restricted by the limitations of the revolver. They may get one as a range toy, or curiosity, but generally stick to the auto loader as their service/CCW piece.

Revolver shooters generally look at the 9mm Luger, and say.."why?"...
First, because there is nothing the 9mm can do in a revolver that isn't already done and well surpassed, by rounds like the .357Mag.

And second because of the added need for clips in DA guns. Lots of people, who want a revolver to shoot 9mm Luger, choose the Ruger SA, and curiously enough, the Ruger convertible Blackhawk is, as far as I know, the only "9mm" revolver that has been in continuous production over the last few decades.

Real or imagined advantages and disadvantages aside, the market shows what US buyers want, and in general a DA 9mm revolver isn't high on that list, and never has been.
 
Don't know if this has been covered yet, but there is a 9mm federal, a rimmed round, that I recommend that you avoid. Use of a rimless round with moon clips is good. Use of a rimmed round with speedloaders isn't as good as moon clips, in my experience.

Do not wind up with a 9mm revolver that was intended for the 9mm rimmed.


Was there another revolver chamber for the 9 mm Federal besides the Charter Arms Pitbull? Curious about your statement advising not to wind up with a revolver chambered for the 9 mm Federal round.
 
Ruger LCR 9mm

The Ruger LCR has been newly chambered in 9mm...

http://www.ruger.com/products/lcr/models.html

EDIT: Sorry, some mentioned this in an earlier post!

Anyway, revolvers made by Smith, Taurus, Charter Arms, Ruger, Chiappa and I think one Czech model are currently available in 9mm.

Quite a few others are available in the used market and conversions to 9mm from .357 Magnum aren't very expensive.
 
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tecarra, although federal 9mm rimmed is very scarce and, expensive, it should not be a deterrent for buying a pistol such as a Charter Arms Pit bull, the work around (if you reload) is modifying 38 S&W cases to 9mm specs, now you end up with a rimmed cartridge case.
 
Bill, Charter Arms Pit Bull unfortunately will not allow the cylinder to close using moon clips, they only work with rimmed ammo. 38 S&W is the easy solution. I'm not sure of the other revolvers chambered for the 9MM I use them in my SP 101 which can use both. I load a lot for a friend who was in the situation with his pit bull. Rim is near perfect but, keep the load under max , 38 S&W cases are a little thinner at the rim. Take note.
 
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