Agreed. Completely.As long as human bodies can be wrecked by metal projectiles at high velocities, revolvers are still relevant.
The fact that some, or most, may prefer a semi, does not mean that a revolver is not relevant. One does not preclude the other.
1) You hit the cylinder release almost simultaneously while 2) switching it to your left hand. At the same time your left hand is 3) hitting the ejector rod turning, pushing the cylinder through the frame then flipping the gun muzzle up for gravity to help. This is all 1 fluid movement. 4) Then turning it muzzle down for gravity to help the other way while loading new BB's. While you are doing that your right hand is removing the speedloader. 5) Your speed loader catches up to the cylinder at that time the gun goes muzzle down. ... 6) Speedloader is let go falls out of the way at the same time 7) cylinder is closed and 8) weapon is transferd to shooting hand.
Is it a lot going on? Heck yes. But we got very proficient at it and could reload as quick as we could with the autos - less rounds. This is the same way a lot of your champion revolver shooters (Jerry Miculek) use.
So a pistol takes three easy steps to reload a magazine from empty, only two steps for a tactical reload where one round is still in the chamber. Let's see how many steps are involved in reloading a revolver:
Okay, so I counted somewhere around 8 steps, but regardless, the biggest two steps are obviously 1) Ejecting spent shells, and 2) Inserting the speed loader into the cylinder. This is where I take issue. In the ejection process you tilt the barrel up almost 90 degrees, taking it way off target, and in my experience half of the shells still stick in the gun, so you slam the ejector rod a few times, but still one or two shells can need tapped or pulled out (the spent brass has expanded). This is quite a distraction, as is lining up the speed loader with the holes in the cylinder. Face it, this is precision work, requiring your eyes to be focused and barrel to be out of the fight. A whole lot more can go wrong even if this is done just as quickly in practice ...I just wanted to make that absolutely clear, carry on...
So a pistol takes three easy steps to reload a magazine from empty, only two steps for a tactical reload where one round is still in the chamber. Let's see how many steps are involved in reloading a revolver:
Okay, so I counted somewhere around 8 steps, but regardless, the biggest two steps are obviously 1) Ejecting spent shells, and 2) Inserting the speed loader into the cylinder. This is where I take issue. In the ejection process you tilt the barrel up almost 90 degrees, taking it way off target, and in my experience half of the shells still stick in the gun, so you slam the ejector rod a few times, but still one or two shells can need tapped or pulled out (the spent brass has expanded). This is quite a distraction, as is lining up the speed loader with the holes in the cylinder. Face it, this is precision work, requiring your eyes to be focused and barrel to be out of the fight. A whole lot more can go wrong even if this is done just as quickly in practice ...I just wanted to make that absolutely clear, carry on...
Revolver:
1) Pull trigger again.
Unless of course internal parts break, the crane bends, the action binds, or a roundhas a primer set out long enough that it won't cycle. < last one happened in my dads security six, not to mention his ejector is bent, and sometimes unscrews itself and won't allow the gun to open.
Not to pick on you, but half the shells still stuck in gun, that is why they make .357 Revolvers, and .38+p rounds.....So a pistol takes three easy steps to reload a magazine from empty, only two steps for a tactical reload where one round is still in the chamber. Let's see how many steps are involved in reloading a revolver:
Okay, so I counted somewhere around 8 steps, but regardless, the biggest two steps are obviously 1) Ejecting spent shells, and 2) Inserting the speed loader into the cylinder. This is where I take issue. In the ejection process you tilt the barrel up almost 90 degrees, taking it way off target, and in my experience half of the shells still stick in the gun, so you slam the ejector rod a few times, but still one or two shells can need tapped or pulled out (the spent brass has expanded). This is quite a distraction, as is lining up the speed loader with the holes in the cylinder. Face it, this is precision work, requiring your eyes to be focused and barrel to be out of the fight. A whole lot more can go wrong even if this is done just as quickly in practice ...I just wanted to make that absolutely clear, carry on...
So a pistol takes three easy steps to reload a magazine from empty, only two steps for a tactical reload where one round is still in the chamber. Let's see how many steps are involved in reloading a revolver:
Okay, so I counted somewhere around 8 steps, but regardless, the biggest two steps are obviously 1) Ejecting spent shells, and 2) Inserting the speed loader into the cylinder. This is where I take issue. In the ejection process you tilt the barrel up almost 90 degrees, taking it way off target, and in my experience half of the shells still stick in the gun, so you slam the ejector rod a few times, but still one or two shells can need tapped or pulled out (the spent brass has expanded). This is quite a distraction, as is lining up the speed loader with the holes in the cylinder. Face it, this is precision work, requiring your eyes to be focused and barrel to be out of the fight. A whole lot more can go wrong even if this is done just as quickly in practice ...I just wanted to make that absolutely clear, carry on...
This looks like my model 19-3.
Is it a 19???