Something unusual at the range

I'm fine with other members in the younger crowd being more interested in autoloaders.

It means that I only have the old salts to worry about as competition when looking for a great used S&W 13-2 or 686. :D
 
I won't say who...

The Old Guy cleaned a couple of IDPA classifiers with a obsolete DA Colt 6 shooter. And, as reported by more than 1 competitor, it was the only time they saw anyone clean the course of fire.
 
I grew up in a house with a Colt Python, Colt Cobra, Colt Detective Special, and these days a pair of Ruger LCRs.

I am an autoloader guy, but I have a healthy respect for revolvers. There's a whole lot of history of that rotating cylinder putting an end to folks.
 
Ha I've turned quite a few heads at the range on my last outing with my customized Dan Wesson 15, 6" Extra Heavy with Pachmayr grips. (I'll get pictures up soon and I can) I caught a few WTH is THAT?! looks :D Cmon it always feels nice to watch those semi auto tupperware fools something to envy. Especially since my shooting buddies and I are in our 20's. I have much respect for anyone my age firing a revolver!

I've also noticed after taking quite a few ladies to the range they have much preferred MY revolvers to autos, much to their boyfriends anger :p

Revolvers = Class.
Some have it... some don't
Women can see it and tactifools envy it! :D
 
I shot the Beretta in the service but when it was time to purchase my first handgun I chose a .357 GP100. I guess I think a little differently than most of my generation.

It mostly won't win a gun fight in the movies I guarantee you that my 642 will go bang when I ask it to.
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One exception is James Caan in The Way of the Gun. He cleans house with a wheel gun at the end and against a couple of 1911's no less.
 
I just did a trade for a couple of guns. 1 was a Marlin 22Mag rifle, and the other was a Dan Wesson 744VH. Talk about a beast of a handgun. Everybody wants to fondle it at the range. Most of the females say "It's so big and heavy and shiney.":D
 
Its funny how things work out sometimes. I am in my mid 20's and I prefer revolvers, and when I sign onto TFL I always go to the revolver section first. Now my dad who is in his 50's likes pretty much strictly auto's and has no interest in revolvers. He thinks I am crazy that I want one of those Uberti black powder revolvers.
 
Just bought a used S&W Model 66. Love it.
I reload so no cases to chase.

My XD9 will be getting lonely sitting in the vault.
 
Some yrs ago I went to the local club for Tue nite pistol shoot.

I had my only rimfire pistol-K22. One shooter says a wheel gun. I said of course it is a real- gun Smith and Wesson
 
Would have to agree with a previous poster about the cost of a quality revolver vs a quality semi auto.
I have all semi autos and my wife only wants/has revolvers. After shooting her single action .22 I had to admit that it is a lot of fun. I would probably buy one, but it seems they are so much more pricy then a good autoloader.

Maybe I'm just making excuses because but they do seem way more. Open to examples where I'm wrong. Maybe even trade my XD9... Who knows stranger things have happened...
 
I guess I'd be more in the younger crowd than the older crowd, though it's getting to the point that I have to think about it....

I started in handguns circa 1999 with a Pietta replica Remington 1858 as a backup for muzzleloader hunting (yes, I'm the oddball who used a muzzleloader during regular firearms season starting at age 15...I could afford a more accurate ML than slug gun). A fun gun but a real PIA to reload and a major PIA to clean, so it saw little range use.

I seem to alternate...get a Glock 23 in 2005 for CCW, then a Taurus 85 in 2008, then a Glock 26 in 2010. Also a Taurus Ti Tracker 41Mag, another Taurus 85, and a Ruger Mark III Hunter. Inherited an 80 yr old SW 38.

I enjoy shooting them all, I don't understand why people have to pick camps and belittle the other.

Lately I have been on a bigbore handgun kick, picking up a SW 329PD and a 45 Colt conversion cylinder for the 1858. Boy is that 1858 a fun gun now! The major draws to revolvers for me right now is a) they tend to have more power and do more with reactive targets, and b) my personal range is grass so it is easier to collect brass to reload by dumping it out in my hand versus crawling through the grass looking for it.

I'm not sure which handgun I want next...either a SW 629 Classic 5" or a Kimber Eclipse Custom II in 10mm Auto....
 
I see a fair amount of hunting revolvers at the range before hunting season. Lots of 454s and 44mags with a few 460s, 500s, 45lc and Rifle caliber revolvers mixed in.
 
The very first center fire gun I bought was my Ruger SBH. This was in the early seventies right when 'Dirty Harry' was at the theaters. There was so much bad word of mouth concerning the .44 mag, that I was scared to fire the gun. My flinch can only be imagined. I soon figured out that the gun was not going to hurt me, and ditched the flinch. I sent many hundreds of Hornady bullets down range with that gun, and educated some FOGs on revolver accuracy. I like my wheelguns, as well as the autos. It all depends on what kind of mood I'm in.
 
Limited experience with auto's but learning. I do know that my first gun being a single action revolver sure taught me marksmanship. You just don't get the opportunity to spray and pray! Who's scarier if you're a bad guy, the guy with the worn old school revolver who looks like the thing hasn't been out of his hand since birth,or the guy with the snail drum magazine on his auto with all the latest accessories?
 
A friend had a S&W .44 Mag that was the most fun of any handgun I have shot. Unfortunately we moved away from each other so some day I'll have to buy one. Not sure I can afford the S&W though.
 
I own several semi autos in .22, 380, 9mm, 45 but there's something about the revolvers ...

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I will occasionaly have someone come up to me at the range and ask me about my Ruger Security Six. It is almost always a youn person, they seem truly fascinated by it.

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I love it when I pull out my Smith Model 10 or my Taurus Ultralight 85 and do a really tight chest size group over and over and over at ten yards.

The semi auto kids just lean over to see what that old guy is shooting.:D
 
I dabbled in autos for a little while, but I didn't like chasing my brass. If I loose one brass it kills me.

I think the autos are fine, but for reloading revolvers are better in so many ways.
 
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