jar
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Did he explain what "sustained double action shooting" even means or how that might relate to what the owner might actually do?i recall George C. Nonte writing that his first revolver was an H&R revolver which he found was not up to sustained double action shooting, but those old store brand/mail order guns were affordable.
Think about what uses the person buying an H&R or Hopkins & Allen or any of the Brazillion other handgun makers in the US might have had?
Self Defense was possibly part of it but varmint control or pot fixin's or plinking were far more likely actual uses. I can remember even into the 1950s and 1960s being able to buy cartridges by the unit rather than a full box. Most of the folk buying handguns guns at any price point might use a box of ammo every year, maybe less.
I have three H&R revolvers, one I bought back in 1955 IIRC and it still functions pretty much just as it did back then as do the other two as well. It's seen far more use in the last three or four decades before then.
and the old holster I found in a barn and thought was really cool.