Lately my thoughts and wandering eyes have alighted more often than before on SA revolvers...
What's interesting about this is that I have never given SA revolvers a second thought for years. And yet, now I find myself eyeing them.
I asked myself why.
After thinking a bit, the answer came to me.
I've just about completed my arsenal. My safe contains one or two of just about every gun/type of gun I've every seriously wanted. When I see a gun or read a review of the latest from the gun industry, I think: "I have something that will do that better/almost as good/ just as well, and what's more I like what I have better."
So, why am I looking at SA revolvers? Because I have all the functionality that I want/need and have started looking at toys...
Now, I'm not trying to say that SA revolvers are useless, far from it. I'm just saying that for the most part that a DA revolver will do what they do and then some...
Once, DA revolvers were considered fragile--now they chamber anything that an SA revolver can. Once DA revolvers were considered to be less accurate---I just read a review of a DA revolver that shoots 1 MOA groups at 100 yards. You can scope a DA revolver easily, they hold as many rounds (or more) as an SA, you can still shoot them SA if you want, and they're much easier to reload.
SA revolvers may have a slight advantage in terms of weight, size and cost, but nothing to parade up and down the streets.
Anyway, all that to say that I figured out why I've been looking at SA revolvers lately.
What's interesting about this is that I have never given SA revolvers a second thought for years. And yet, now I find myself eyeing them.
I asked myself why.
After thinking a bit, the answer came to me.
I've just about completed my arsenal. My safe contains one or two of just about every gun/type of gun I've every seriously wanted. When I see a gun or read a review of the latest from the gun industry, I think: "I have something that will do that better/almost as good/ just as well, and what's more I like what I have better."
So, why am I looking at SA revolvers? Because I have all the functionality that I want/need and have started looking at toys...
Now, I'm not trying to say that SA revolvers are useless, far from it. I'm just saying that for the most part that a DA revolver will do what they do and then some...
Once, DA revolvers were considered fragile--now they chamber anything that an SA revolver can. Once DA revolvers were considered to be less accurate---I just read a review of a DA revolver that shoots 1 MOA groups at 100 yards. You can scope a DA revolver easily, they hold as many rounds (or more) as an SA, you can still shoot them SA if you want, and they're much easier to reload.
SA revolvers may have a slight advantage in terms of weight, size and cost, but nothing to parade up and down the streets.
Anyway, all that to say that I figured out why I've been looking at SA revolvers lately.