I don't have the knowledge of some of you. I don't have the experience of some of you. I sure don't have the "good taste" in guns of some of you. I've only been into handgunning for a decade or so and have gone through various phases while finding out what I like most. I had built up a pretty nice, small collection of Model 10s and a couple of nice 15s but ended up selling them off to a dealer because I needed to raise cash and they were marketable if not particularly valuable. I have bought, tried, and eventually traded off a number of autos of different types. The only guns I never would get rid of and which gradually accumulated were Ruger double-action revolvers, GPs and SPs. I didn't plan that and I don't claim them to be the best looking, most refined, most collectible, or anything else. I just came to realize I really, really like them and eventually realized that, since I didn't start real young, the best way to get as good as I can with some form of handgun was to use that form of handgun and then use it some more...and some more. I am trading a 9mm pistol for another Ruger this next week and still have a couple of things on my want list. I would even like to begin again on that Smith collection, though I'm not a collector. I can see the day when all, or nearly all, of my guns will be round in the middle. Wheelguns just feel "right" to me and have since the day I began shooting handguns. I like to at least think that all my handguns have some "purpose" or fill some role, and the .38/357 combination does 99 44/100% of anything I need a handgun to do. And, truth to tell, I don't really like magazines for no good reason.
Do I need professsional help?
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Everyone has decisions to make. From what you said, I think you might be wise to put the autos in the safe, leave them there, and buy the wheel guns too. Variety is the spice of life. Guns do not get jealous if you play with another gun. Autos have their place, the same as wheel guns.
When I take a new shooter out the first gun they shoot is a ruger .22 target pistol. The multiple holes in a target are addictive. A new shooter can not shoot a revolver in double action as well as an auto loader. YES, many of us can shoot double action fast and accurately. We have many rounds down range, and many hours of practice.
IF you get a chance to teach someone to shoot, the first thing to do is make it fun. That means they need to hit the target regularly, and develop confidence. After they learn to shoot a little, are you going to hand them a .38 J frame, and say, this is what you NEED for defense? Maybe you would be better to hand them an autoloader, and say, Try this.
Bring them into the fold of shooters, and then let them graduate, or regress to wheelguns.
For me? I do not have the time or the inclination to master double action shooting with a wheel gun. My larger autoloaders will hit as far as I need to shoot in a defensive situation. I enjoy shooting them, and they work for me.
There is no right or wrong here, we all get to decide
When I take a new shooter out the first gun they shoot is a ruger .22 target pistol. The multiple holes in a target are addictive. A new shooter can not shoot a revolver in double action as well as an auto loader. YES, many of us can shoot double action fast and accurately. We have many rounds down range, and many hours of practice.
IF you get a chance to teach someone to shoot, the first thing to do is make it fun. That means they need to hit the target regularly, and develop confidence. After they learn to shoot a little, are you going to hand them a .38 J frame, and say, this is what you NEED for defense? Maybe you would be better to hand them an autoloader, and say, Try this.
Bring them into the fold of shooters, and then let them graduate, or regress to wheelguns.
For me? I do not have the time or the inclination to master double action shooting with a wheel gun. My larger autoloaders will hit as far as I need to shoot in a defensive situation. I enjoy shooting them, and they work for me.
There is no right or wrong here, we all get to decide
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