#autoloader

Small reminder than revolvers have been hot shit exactly three times in history- once when they were developed, and they gave anyone with one a vast superiority over a single shot muzzle loader. Once when metallic cartridges and rear loading cylinders were developed, and reloading went from a five minute, inexact practice to a thirty second to a minute process. And once when double action and bread action/ swing out cylinders were perfected.

then 1900 came around.

Since that time, autoloaders have been reliable enough and prevalent enough to eclipse them, and yet for some reason people still think that they're a reasonable carry option.

Revolvers have no place in a carry position."there's nothing to go wrong" "nothing can jam" bru I hate to tell you but that's max bullshit. Any gun can jam with enough bad maintenance- and that's the point where most people have reliability problems with autoloaders, is they don't clean them. I shoot quite a bit, and generally with autoloaders- don't get me wrong, i do like revolvers as range toys- but I can count on ONE hand exactly how many failures I've experienced. (save my Tec-9, that doesn't count) But do you know why? I clean the ever loving bejesus out of my guns EVERY time I shoot them, and once a month for my carries.

So what, you have five or six shots of a really hot cartridge. ok, so you expend those shots because they're super heavy on the recoil and you miss every shot under duress. What happens? You break it open, and either have spead loaders for another six shots or you fumble more cartridges into the cylinder, and then you're good to go.

An autoloader has generally in between 8 to 18 shots, depending on the cartridge and the pistol. And in the event that you have to reload, it's done at the press of a button and the insertion of a fresh magazine. There's a reason the FBI looked to autoloaders after the 1986 FBI Miami shootout- they realized 86 years too late that revolvers were outdated, and people died for it.

I carry my chrome .44 occasionally, I know you've seen the funny pictures. But you know what? It does little more than the silver I wear on my wrist, a showpiece. At the end of the day there's a Smith and Wesson Bodyguard tucked in the wasteband.