One of the selling points of the Glock over the S&W autos when the Glock was being considered for police use was the Glock has about 30 parts and some of the S&W autos contain over 100 parts. That was from the book I am reading titled "Glock, the rise of Americas gun".
And to be fair I have never had a failure with an auto either. I am particular and like to keep my guns clean. I load good ammo and am careful about checking powder charges in each case.
I haven't sat down and did a parts count on a revolver in a long time. There was a gunwriter named Bob Milek that promoted the single action over a double action because of the lower parts count. He even had a couple of pictures of both designs broke completely down. I counted the parts and wouldn't you know it. The single action had about 3 more parts than the double action he presented.
I am pretty certain if either a revolver or an auto is maintained and fed the best ammo you can get for them that they will be about as reliable as you could ever hope for.
I would like to hear about the two revolver issues you witnessed. And of course if you feel better served with your Sig 229 I sure am not to tell you that you wrong. Confidence in a weapon is all important.
And one more thing. I used to shoot falling plate matches with revolvers for the centerfire part. I would practice when I got to the shoot. My uncle ran it and we got to the range early to set up the plates. It was fun. Each time I went I would shoot 300-400 rounds of ammo in either my GP-100 or S&W model 19. I did this for a couple if years nearly every month. I never had one single breakdown, jam, stuck bullet or any other failure out of several thousand rounds fired from those two revolvers.
And to be fair I have never had a failure with an auto either. I am particular and like to keep my guns clean. I load good ammo and am careful about checking powder charges in each case.
I haven't sat down and did a parts count on a revolver in a long time. There was a gunwriter named Bob Milek that promoted the single action over a double action because of the lower parts count. He even had a couple of pictures of both designs broke completely down. I counted the parts and wouldn't you know it. The single action had about 3 more parts than the double action he presented.
I am pretty certain if either a revolver or an auto is maintained and fed the best ammo you can get for them that they will be about as reliable as you could ever hope for.
I would like to hear about the two revolver issues you witnessed. And of course if you feel better served with your Sig 229 I sure am not to tell you that you wrong. Confidence in a weapon is all important.
And one more thing. I used to shoot falling plate matches with revolvers for the centerfire part. I would practice when I got to the shoot. My uncle ran it and we got to the range early to set up the plates. It was fun. Each time I went I would shoot 300-400 rounds of ammo in either my GP-100 or S&W model 19. I did this for a couple if years nearly every month. I never had one single breakdown, jam, stuck bullet or any other failure out of several thousand rounds fired from those two revolvers.
