Revolvers for Classes

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@radio_berthoud 5 ай бұрын

You can teach how to effectively use a revolver under 7 yards in 10 minutes, safety course included. You need at least an hour to do the same with a semi-automatic handgun. Revolvers are obsolete outside a few very limited ecological niches, but they are still great for people who don't care about guns or just won't train with them, happily forgetting about them in the nightstand for years.

@gordonburrow1155 5 ай бұрын

Frankly I carry a revolver (S&W model 10-14 w/ 4" bull barrel). I have taken multiple courses that involved 400+ rounds; no problems. Reloading done with Safari land speedloaders. Slower, yes but not by that much. What troubles me the most about your dissertation is the idea that a revolver suffers from catastrophic failures as often as semi auto suffers from feeding issues. And that the semi auto never has a catastrophic failure. The truth is both platforms can have a catastrophic failure; ruffly at the same frequency. I would be interested in knowing how many semi auto go down in these classes that you speak of.

@patriottraininginfo 5 ай бұрын

@gordonburrow1155 only a handful of semi autos have catastrophic failures in the hundreds of classes I've taken and taught. Almost all Taurus or other "El cheapo" makes.

@gordonburrow1155 5 ай бұрын

@@patriottraininginfo Thank you for the information. I think the same can be said for the revolvers that went down. this is why I tell my students what ever platform they choose don't skip out on quality, spend the money it's their life on the line. Keep up the good work.

@rickyzemba9568 5 ай бұрын

I have a few revolvers. I would not take to a pistol training class. I do not choose it as my EDC.

@richardkluesek4301 5 ай бұрын

Both revolvers and semiautomatic pistols have features and benefits, advantages and disadvantages for specific circumstances. In general in modern life for professional law enforcement, military, security, and private citizens a modern striker fired or d/a semiauto with double column magazine is the apex sidearm. Single actions require 'cocked'n locked" condition 1 carrying to be able to get into action as quick, though the IDF would disagree. Solid frame da/sa swing out cylinder revolvers perfected by the World War eras are the recognized standard. Dedicated single action 19th Century revolvers are irrelevant except for recreational pursuits. Revolvers have a place for users physically unable to retract slides or compress magazine springs even with tools. In service size, multiple personnel so armed have effective presence in numbers, while for lone individuals snubbie configurations are handy. In professional use there is a role as a secondary gun. The manual of arms among all manufactures is close enough that anyone handed any in an emergency can figure out how to fire and open a cylinder for reloading. Loose cartridges dumped in a pocket can still serve to maintain firepower which only is accomplished in a semiautomatic pistol by having at least 1 or more preloaded spare magazines on the person which creates a bulky package. Repeatedly reloading loose ammunition into a single magazine is an impossible situation and if a 1 and only magazine runs dry the fight is lost. 2 or more extra magazines must be carried. Modern gunfighters do carry more than that but comparatively in the World Wars 1 or 2 extra magazines was common in a double pouch or single sleeve on a flap holster. The pistols also were of low capacity, 7,8, or 9 shots and far fewer rounds were expected to be fired in combat in the same category as revolver loadouts, about 12 to 24. Personally I have an assortment of and use both and am not advocating foreither one over the other. Riding around town I probably will have a snub nosed pocket rocket revolver but if there is a termination of civilization in a state of war, a Glock or Sig will be on my war belt with carbine, bayonet, and magazine carriers. Millions of servicable revolvers still exist and are made and sold. Lots of tools is better than a few.

@feendog2711 5 ай бұрын

Don't agree with your anti revolver sentiment. Everything has a propensity to fail.

@patriottraininginfo 5 ай бұрын

@@feendog2711 you are correct. And revolvers do so more often than modern semi autos. And they are harder to shoot accurately. Maybe I should do a video on that. 😁