It depends on what you're planning on using it for. Home defense, concealed carry, innawoods, range toy, etc?
For home defense, if you ask 1000 people, you'll get 1000 different opinions, but if you're the type of person getting a gun "just in case" but you never plan on actually using the damn thing, get a double action.357 with as large a capacity as you can get. You won't have to worry about jams or reloading.
For concealed carry, you're typically taking firearms seriously enough to regularly train with them, so the whole reliability that's touted every time revolvers are compared to semiautos is frankly moot. Carry what feels comfortable.
For innawoods, large caliber revolvers tend to be superior to their handgun counterparts. You'll want a.44 at the minimum for bear country.
If you're just plinking, who cares? Shoot whatever, you're there to have fun.
My understanding is that you are not supposed to leave magazines loaded as it is bad for the springs which feed the ammo.
This does not seem practical to me for a home defence scenario, you wouldn't want to be loading a magazine when there is someone in your house and you also wouldn't want the gun to fail because the spring had become tired from sitting around unused and loaded for an extended period of time.
To my mind this is a major advantage to a revolver, they are reliable.
It would also seem that what is probably more important that what sort of gun you have, is what sort round you are firing.
I've always been skeptical of that claim. Keeping springs compressed doesn't stress the metal out, constantly compressing and uncompressing does.
Compare it to a paper clip. You can undo the paper clip once, and it's just fine, and you may even be able to bend it back into shape once, but do that multiple times and it will break along the places where you're bending it.
When you compress the spring, you are storing energy, the spring wants to spend that energy and return back to its extended length, but it can't because its not strong enough so it just pushes all the time and fights this constantly losing battle and over time its strength / energy is used up.
This surely must be the case because otherwise it would have to have an infinite amount of energy, right?
So it isn't a question of whether or not it will fail, it must eventually fail, the question is what is the time frame before it has lost enough of its energy that it can no longer perform sufficiently well to avoid there being some kind of operational problem.
This might be a long time, I dont know what the time frame is and if you did know what it was you could presumably swap out the magazine for a new magazine with a fresh spring every X period of time.
However, this introduces a requirement that that actually happens and that is a problem because people are imperfect and failure to keep up with the maintenance schedule could result in a critical failure at a critical moment.
Now Im sure the revolver wouldn't mind having a bit of maintenance itself once in a while, unload it and open it all up, move all the bits and pieces that move etc, but I would expect the time frame for the revolver failing to be far longer than that of the magazine spring.
I guess I can't say for certain. The general consensus among the first few results for "keeping magazines stored spring" seems to be that magazine springs are designed to be stored full for long periods of time, but consensus doesn't mean true. I haven't seen any empirical testing on the matter.
@BrosephBrostar Its possible that it is old information which no longer applies, perhaps magazines are manufactured to higher standards now, I really have no idea, its just what I read on the subject when I was looking at guns.
Small revolvers such as snub-nosed.38 specials are easy to handle. Large magnum revolvers have strong recoil action that can hurt (or even injure) a weak, inexperienced handler. Luckily, my mom & I were trained by my dad & brothers well. However, I prefer a lightweight semi-automatic pistol (from Glock or Walther) more than a revolver. My husband also has a gun collection like I do. It's good to know how to handle firearms and even better never to need 'em.
Really? I had a snub-nosed.38 before the tragic boating accident that befalls every single gun owner on the internet, but my grouping with them was always worse than when I switched to a fullsized polymer or even a metal-framed gun like a 1911. I love (d) that gun, but I find heavier ones easier to handle due to less recoil.
Revolvers work good to provide a compact option, however most inexpensive revolvers will make a bear get mad at you and attack you since it does not have enough power to go through it. For continuous shooting or target practice, the revolver is hard on the wrist and hands. The kickback for a revolver makes it harder to control when clay shooting, I would rather have a rifle butt on my shoulder. A lightweight cartridge rifle is better all around, but cannot be concealed in professional settings for bodyguards and security staff.
They are decent handguns and are generally higher caliber weapons but they do have their own set of problems they're heavier, slow to fire and slow to reload unless you have a speed loader. To name a few of their issues.
A revolver is way more dependable of a handgun. It may not hold as many shots but if you know how to handle a gun and shoot it has what you need. Anyone saying different has little knowledge of firearms or think they are Johnny Bad Ass with a Glock.
i dont know shit about guns. But from the video games i've played revolvers are high powered for how small they are. I dont see the practicability compared to a semi automatic handgun that can fire more shots. More shots meaning you have more chances to hit your target.
I'd still really recommend a shotgun with birdshot so it doesn't go through walls and kill your kids or neighbors. I'd only agree with a pistol if you were highly trained and highly skilled. Cops are highly trained but not all are highly skilled. Cops miss SO much. It's embarrassing. I'd stick with a shotgun. Plus, racking the shotgun so an intruder hears it... psychologically it's powerful. They know you're less likely to miss and they will get shredded.
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Yeah, they don't jam and are 100% reliable. The main problem is the expense and care required of them.
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Revolver are usable as under the pillow firearm because a revolver won't fail while wrapped in a blanked. Polymer striker-fire action pistols outperform revolver in every other situation. Better safety, always combat ready, lighter, more shots
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