What is it About Revolvers and Older Pistols?

[Tamara]

Could have been the Smith & Wesson Sigma! A truly horrendous handgun. At one point you could buy a junker Sigma and the mothership would trade you a new gun just to get it off the street.

That was only the subcompact single-stack blowback SW9F and SW380F. The actual full size Sigmas weren’t really all that bad, but you can’t tell the internet that.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

My friend's Sigma was a 40SW and wouldn't run a mag. I later heard that it was a mag problem that was well known and fixed. But he had sold it by then.

[Moped]

Just a reminder that we’re only a handful of years away from the earliest imported Glocks aging into C&R eligibility.

There's no need in remind us all that we are old...

[JonInWA]

Or....Get a P80 or one of the current Gen 1 G17 re-issues! Problem solved!

You can thank me later.....

Best, Jon

[Inkwell 41]

Probably the Rogak P-18: a very, very poor copy of the Steyer GB. A copy where they forgot to actually put in the gas system.

I remember reading about that in a couple magazines back in the day. I think the word “turd” was used in the description.

[45dotACP]

One thing about old revolvers...

Man they look good.


Also, this gun shoots exceptionally well. At the longest distances I can shoot (20 yards) I have produced a few hits per cylinder on targets the size of a dime.

Not a quarter. A dime. Intentionally.

This gun tho.

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[Trooper224]

One thing about old revolvers...

Man they look good.


Also, this gun shoots exceptionally well. At the longest distances I can shoot (20 yards) I have produced a few hits per cylinder on targets the size of a dime.

Not a quarter. A dime. Intentionally.

This gun tho.

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I just sold one of those to help my oldest son with some financial concerns. It was a worthy cause, but I miss it.

[Trooper224]

There's no need in remind us all that we are old...

This morning, two Troopers came into the courthouse. I remember them both when they were so new they squeaked. Now, they're balding and going grey. I don't need further reminders.

[JAH 3rd]

Just for "fun", I put on my Sam Browne a few years ago. It was circa 70's/80's when purchased. Still had my Bianchi "the Judge" front-break holster attached to it. And my speedloader carrier with the loaders still in the carrier. A time capsule. It is amazing how leather shrinks over time but it could have been my waist expanded. Probably the latter. Anyway, good memories. Started out with a S&W nickel Model 19 4" barrel. When I changed departments, it was a Model 66 I carried.

My first handgun purchase was a S&W model 19, blue, with a 2.5" barrel. Wish I had it back.

[High Cross]

I cannot cite any, at the moment, but I have been seeing internet posts, to that effect. (Not P-F, IIRC.) I think that one might have been in a discussion about the light-trigger plastic pistols, with fully-cocked strikers, as opposed to Glocks, which are only partially-cocked, requiring the shooter to finish cocking the striker, during the trigger pull. If I recall correctly, one of the comments was that only “old” shooters would prefer a pistol that did not have a fully-cocked striker.

Another discussion was about police duty pistols. Older officers, preferring to cling to their Glocks, were seen as quaint dinosaurs.

Not saying that I am a Glock guy/fan/boy. Glocks have their uses. A baby Glock, for example, can be a good tactical reload option when the number of Comanches exceeds the number of rounds in the cylinder of my Stone Age cowboy cannon.

Still rocking those Ruger GP 100s?