Do younger shooters buy revolvers?

[.308 Norma]

If one equates 'young' to how long a person has been shooting (or been exposed to) handguns,,,, I'm a 53 yr old toddler!!! LOL!

If one equates "young" to how long a person has been shooting (or been exposed to) handguns....I'm still plenty old enough to get senior citizen discounts!!!
Seriously, I'm 70, been around handguns since I really was a toddler that watched his granddad retrieve a revolver of some sort from the top shelf of a cabinet beside the front door. Nevertheless, while I prefer my Smith 44 revolver for woods carry, I prefer my Springfield 9mm semi-auto for concealed carry.
I try to choose what I think is "the right tool for the right job." Always have.

 

[BlueHeelerFl]

Right handed people who are left eye dominant can have a good time with that too.

But you can fix that.

How would one go about doing that? I have the reverse situation. I'm left handed but right eye dominant.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

How would one go about doing that? I have the reverse situation. I'm left handed but right eye dominant.

So for me what worked was a solid year of FORCING myself to shoot and dry fire with my non-dominant eye. Seriously, it took a year of this with dry firing probably 4-6 nights a week and slower range sessions, but being very cognizant of using my non-dominant eye. So one night I was practicing my draw and aim, and I realized I was automatically using my right eye, which had been my non-dominant eye.

So I did the eye test for dominance where you point at a distant object with both index fingers of both hands, with the object centered between them. You close one eye, then the other. Of course binocular vision dictates that there are two different images being taken in by two different lenses set slightly apart, which is why we see in 3D. It gives us depth perception. So when you close one eye and then the other, the image will shift with one of the eyes, but remain the same with your dominant. I'm assuming you know of this test already, but if not and I'm unclear, please let me know. We can PM or start a different thread.

Before forcing my eyes to change dominance, my left eye was dominant. After the change, when I did the test, my right eye was now dominant. I dated a woman in the neurological health field and told her this, and then asked her if it was just my imagination. Her answer was "No it's not your imagination, its called neuroplasticity, and it's been a known thing for a long time."

 

[MrBorland]

How would one go about doing that? I have the reverse situation. I'm left handed but right eye dominant.

Learn to shoot right handed. I'm a leftie but right eye dominant as well, and shooting rightie has never been a problem. Shooting in general accommodates righties much moreso than lefties, and shooting (or more to the point, reloading) a revolver in particular is much easier for a rightie. And shooting leftie when the circumstances demand it isn't much of a problem. I consider this form of cross-dominance one of my "secret weapons"

 

[BlueHeelerFl]

I do shoot rifles right handed, but handgun shooting feels very odd

 

[MrBorland]

I do shoot rifles right handed, but handgun shooting feels very odd

Right-handed dry fire drills done regularly at home will help a lot with that.

 

[OneFreeTexan]

I recently retired as a ‘security agent’ for a diamond merchant... he was a young Jewish gentleman, now he’s an old Jewish gentleman,, He knows nothing about guns,, just knew he wanted someone to ‘watch out for me’. guess I did alright, he’s alive so am I... I only used a 38Special snubby,, he knew what it looked like and that was all that mattered to him, as long as I ‘kept watch’ for him
He retired, so did I..His son took over the business and got a new ‘tactical security guy’. He shows pop his gun, it’s some new polymer thing,, Pop,, goes,,,,”That’s no gun,,,,here show him yours”. Pointing to me.
Anyway,,, my little revolver did the job for almost 40 yrs,. Don’t think I’ll change.

 

[The Evangelist Cowboy]

I buy revolvers and I'm 25.

 

[sequins]

I have several revolvers and I'm not yet 30. I don't enjoy chasing brass at the range... I do carry an automatic though for my EDC. The reload is just so much quicker at my level of training.

I really, really prefer revolvers at the range though.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

The funny thing is even when I go to the range to shoot autoloaders, there's always a revolver brought along too, "just in case".