re: Explain to me what's special about Revolvers

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It's a Glock, so 14x longer than a 1911

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I'm not talking about a 1911's reliability here. I'm referring to the durability of a revolver.

A Glock shooting 10mm repeatedly will be very different after thousands of rounds when compared to a Glock shooting 9mm over thousands of rounds.

It has nothing to do with Glock but the nature of a higher pressure cartridge. The same can be said for 40 S&W and 357 Sig. All of these rounds increase the slide velocity compared to lower pressure cartridges like 9mm and 45 ACP.

If you're gonna talk about Glock, I would say comparing a Kimber Eclipse 10mm vs a Glock 20 will prove that the 1911's metal frame can probably take more of a beating after taming the high pressure cartridge for so long.

Again, this discussion is not about 1911s. It is about the effectiveness of revolvers at shooting high pressure rounds. They will always be more durable than semi autos.

Please try to avoid using red herrings in this discussion.

Lots of positives about revolvers, but the most important is reliability. You can load a wheel gun, put it on a shelf in your shop and forget about it. 20 years later you can pick it up and it will go bang. Wheel guns just feel "right" to some people. My pow pow could shoot a wheel gun like nobody's business, but he wasn't real good with a pistol. The trigger pull is a funny subject. Yeah, you can fire it single action, but you never should in a self defense situation. If you shoot one enough you will never want to fire one single action. The double action trigger pull of a revolver is an art that is easily mastered.

I also forgot about one small detail about revolvers.

Since the revolver action doesn't rely on recoil, it can operate with low powered cartridges of the same case.

45 LC - 45 ACP - .410 Shotshell

38 Special - 357 Magnum

44 Special - 44 Magnum

22 short - 22 long rifle - 22 magnum

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But I've always wondered why anyone would carry one over a semi. Unless you're cocking each time you have that extra pressure on the trigger pull, a low capacity, slow reloading without a speed loader, and this is just personal preference but I've never really liked the fit.

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You have a fixed barrel with a revolver, combine that with adjustable sights, and you can have a very, very accurate platform. Personally, I think revolver makers focus more on the dynamic between trigger, hammer and lockup because of the timing issue and as a result there is a more dynamic, synergistic feel to the action - you can get to "know" a particular revolver, fairly quickly, whereas that learning curve is steeper with most automatics.

Don't get me wrong - there are many, many fine semi-automatics (the old girls M1911 and Browning Hi-Power variants seem to be over-represented in the population), but the higher end revolvers just seem nicer, smoother and have more distinct and lovable personalities, relative to semis which are more generic. Maybe it's an age thing, but maybe there is something to it.

more semis fail than revolvers of any kind. FACT

I sure hope he's not.

It's got to light it off, extract it, eject it, and chamber the next one. Lots of things to go wrong there. You're relying on the ammo

With the wheel gun, you're relying on some stainless linkage and springs.

One will work more often than the other.

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DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Boom!