As
Mike Irwin said, what's not to like?
Some things not yet said;
Pick up any older revolver (say, pre-1971) and listen as you open and close the cylinder. The sounds it makes as it locks up, that solid sound of old-fashioned forged steel moving into place.
Cock that DA revolver in a deliberate fashion and there is something very satisfying and unmistakable about the *
snick-click-snick* the action makes.
Cock that Single Action Colt and listen to those four loud clicks. More satisfaction of finely fitted pieces working together.
These are machines, but unlike many machines, once we knew how to make them work we didn't stop
trying to make them more eye appealing. They combine straight lines with enough curves to please the eye. It's called having
class.
Even the protective finishes we've used on them trended towards adding a bit of beauty and glamour to a piece of cold steel.
Even the most basic revolver has a pleasing combination. Plain, simple, efficient, yet eye pleasing.
Someone else mentioned it and I feel it two. When shooting a revolver, you can sometimes feel a connection to all of the history behind them. When shooting a revolver we can easily begin to place ourselves in history. Firing a big bore magnum we wonder what
Elmer Keith would have said. When shooting a simple .38 revolver, like the stainless model above, we can understand what it was like to be a policeman in the first half of the century (and why they wanted the .357 Magnum). Using a single-action gives us an appreciation for frontier life and to some extent how much braver real men were in those days.
The revolver had a 50 year head start on the self-loader and will always invoke certain memories. The revolver also has about a 130 year head start as the preferred police weapon. Only in the last 25-30 years has the pistol taken over.
Heck, I like 'em even when they're "all scratched up" like this one.
