I hear ya fella's. But I have seen some folks on here post in some "Carry SD" threads post that they carry a SA revolver, so they must be out there.
Here's one of the interesting videos I found on this topic...
Howdy.
There was a time, as a young cop and new firearms instructor, when I sometimes carried a Ruger Blackhawk off-duty. Why?
Well, I'd grown up learning to shoot revolvers using Ruger SA's, and had carried one or another of them in the backwoods when Jeeping with my father. My favorite was an old 4 5/8" 3-screw Blackhawk .357/9 Convertible, but I've also owned some other 4 5/8" Blackhawks, including a .45ACP/Colt Convertible and a one of what was apparently a short run of .44 Magnum Blackhawks, and even used a .30 Carbine and .41 MAG in the older 3-screw models.
The tips discussed and demonstrated in the video you linked were pretty common and well known among SA revolver aficionados back during the heyday of the TV westerns in the late 50's & early 60's. They were things my father taught me when I was old enough to start shooting SA revolvers. Finger-off-the-trigger during drawing and strong hand thumb-cocking was a good idea, especially with some of the people trying to emulate western "fast-draws" in those earlier days, but ending up putting a hole in their foot or down their leg.
Anyway, I did use a couple of those well known tips when actually taking one of my Blackhawks to a range qual back then, and I remember how it attracted some odd glances and smirks ... right up until I put 6 rounds of .45 Colt into a tight cluster, faster than most of the 9mm shooters could fire the same number of rounds. IOf course, then my empty Blackhawk became a big paperweight, or a bludgeon.
That period didn't last long, and some years later we actually had to institute a policy prohibiting the carrying of SA revolvers off-duty. It coincidentally came about when one of the other former firearms instructors, who had gotten involved in CAS, had decided he wanted to carry one or more of his CAS revolvers as off-duty weapons.
I used to volunteer to help teach some private citizen classes for people interested in having CCW licenses, and over the course of almost 10 years of doing so, I doubt there were more than 4 or 5 guys who wanted to use a SA revolver for a listed CCW weapon. Since the type of handgun permitted on a CCW license can be limited or restricted to suit the issuing authority in CA, it's not unusual to find out that there are jurisdictions won't permit SA revolvers to be used on their licenses. (My father had a couple of his short Blackhawks on his CCW license back in the 70's, in Sacto, but that was many years - and elected Sheriffs - ago.
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I'd obviously not consider a SA revolver to be one of the more practical CCW weapons that could be chosen, but neither would I consider a private citizen who was familiar, knowledgeable, experienced and well-versed in safely and effectively
using one to be "under equipped" for his/her needs.
The days of handgunners cutting their teeth on, and learning their foundation shooting skillsets with, revolvers - let alone single action revolvers - are in the past, though.
If I were still going to be doing a lot of "gentle adventuring" 4-wheeling and backwoods wandering nowadays, I'd still have no qualms about belting on one of my remaining Ruger SA revolvers, for potential defense against 4 or 2-legged threats.