![]() ![]() ![]() OK, you might be thinking, the reloads are slow, but they’re not difficult! You simply remove the spent rounds and replace them with fresh ones. 38 special, shooters are slowing themselves down needlessly. After all, each pull of the trigger is delivering an insane amount of energy. 357 Magnum, the slow reloads are acceptable. Assuming the wheel gun of choice is chambered in something really potent like. But they’re just addressing the symptom and not the cause.īut I’m not blind to the benefits of a revolver. Speedloaders, speed strips, and moon clips do a great job of speeding up the process. Yes, there are ways to partially mitigate this. But the fact of the matter is that given equal amounts of practice, a magazine-fed firearm is vastly faster to reload than a revolver. The comment section is going to be flooded with readers talking about how fast they can reload their favorite wheel gun. Utilize speed-loaders filled with quality ammo to get the most out of your wheel gun. Reloading a revolver under stress is very tough. This will very likely discourage new shooters from practicing and honing their marksmanship skills. In a nutshell, punishing recoil combined with difficult sights makes successfully grouping rounds on paper very tough. Especially given the aforementioned short sight radius. This makes the pistol, in general, a tough sell for new shooters. Not 1980’s B-movie amounts of silly recoil where the gun seems to be firing SCUD missiles, but enough that most shooters will want to stop a practice session after firing through two cylinders worth of ammunition. It’s about whether the average shooter can. And before the comments section fills up with such brilliant recommendations as, “You’re a wimp!” or “Hit the gym!” It’s not about whether I can handle the recoil. Instead, they’re met with a disproportionate muzzle blast and sharp recoil impulse. They expect the same mild recoil of an old S&W Model 10 out of the alloy-framed 442. 38 special revolvers or level-action rifles in the past. Especially from folks who’ve shot bigger. One of the most common comments I’ve heard when I’ve let new shooters fire my Smith & Wesson Model 442 Revolver, is on how much recoil the thing has. With the wrong ammo, snub-nosed 38 special revolvers can kick harder than this SW 686 SSR. But buying a locked-breech pistol and giving proper instruction makes this feasible for anyone who isn’t struggling with a disability. Yes, some shooters struggle to rack an auto-loaders slide. And given the seemingly endless number of new subcompact 9mm handguns hitting the market every year, there’s not a huge reason to opt for a. Why? Because out of a super-short barrel, a 38 special has similar or worse penetration than a 9mm round. 357 Magnum and have at a minimum, a three-inch barrel. 38s chambered for +P rounds help mitigate this, but in my opinion, for any serious use, a revolver should be chambered in. 38 special round fired from a short barrel is terrible. The terminal ballistics of a standard SAAMI spec. While a bit over-the-top, the statement holds true. But have you ever heard of a pistol with sights that are both slow to align and too large to place shots accurately? ![]() Most modern firearms have sights designed for either speed or precision and sometimes even both. The combination of minimalistic carry sights and ultra-short sight radius stack the odds against the shooter purely from a usability perspective.Īfter all, how is a shooter supposed to successfully hit a target if the sights preclude both accurate and fast target acquisition? In fact, I would argue it is among the most difficult. A snub-nosed, double-action-only revolver in any caliber is a very difficult firearm to shoot both accurately and quickly. RIP my inbox – but hear me out before you glass me from orbit. 38 wheel-gun should be the perfect concealed carry option for new shooters – but it’s not. This isn’t to say that they’re a bad choice when shoe-horned into roles they weren’t built for, but more so that a combination of factors have caused some of their most shining moments to eclipse. While six-shooters absolutely have their place in a shooter’s arsenal, they’ve often employed wrong. Don’t misunderstand me, I’ve owned and carried revolvers for years. ![]()
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