Somebody needed to look up "modern" in the dictionary.
http://modernserviceweapons.com/?p=13161
Somebody needed to look up "modern" in the dictionary.
http://modernserviceweapons.com/?p=13161
just commented on it over there. Good stuff and on the money as far as my observations. Just finished a good range session with my 686 SSR, and kept getting this "why am I not carrying this everyday" feeling.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
Maybe I missed it in the article, is there some functional or practical advantage to the medium-frame revolver over the mid-sized polymer auto?
What exactly is the great thing a steel 6 round 357 mag revolver have over a lighter pistol with 16-18 shots of modern JHP 9 mm?
Surely the reloads aren't any faster...
Would you choose a revolver like this one over a modern semiauto, for self defense, ,military, or LE duty? That’s what would show the real “relevance” IMO.
Then I suggest you haven't had the opportunity to be privy to the results of many shootings involving different calibers, etc.
No one in his right mind would postulate that ANY revolver is "better", all things considered, than a modern service semi-auto... and that's not what Hizzie was getting at. IIRC, the thrust of his piece was that a good DA revolver is still viable; and I agree.
I am aware of all the conventional wisdom that says "modern" 9mm bullets do much better these days, etc., etc. And I'm sure there is a lot of truth to that.
I am also aware that, when I took over the FTU, I had access to ALL of my agency's data, and I went back as far as they kept records on the various shootings we had been involved in. There was one caliber that worked EVERY time; and by "worked", I mean it put the bad guy DOWN, and OUT OF THE FIGHT, every time. Not just psychological incapacitation... REAL incapacitation or death. Some would guess that caliber would be the gauge. Nope. It was the .357.
So discount that if you wish.
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