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No argument here…..yes they do deserve far more respect! memtb

A most elegant revolver, sir.
My first centerfire handgun was a Colt Official Police. I remain in awe of the robust character, fit and finish of early Twentieth Century Colt double action revolvers. I just can’t abide their typically obnoxious double action trigger pull. If I wanted to do any precision work with them, it had to be done single action.

Damn - that's a steal! Very nice.

I know guns are just ‘tools’, and tools just need to ‘work’, and semi’s work just great,….

But dayum, I just don’t that wicked little smile when I pick up an auto like I do with a sweet revo.

I still enjoy revolvers over autos. For practical defense I carry a Glock most times, but it's just a tool. Revolvers have more 'personality' to me.

Here is the long and the short of my revolver inventory.

Ah yes, personality. I believe you’ve hit on exactly what makes revolvers so attractive to us. That, and maybe the fact that a revolver can be made to shoot with great precision without a whole lot of effort. One recent example:


In my younger years with this revolver, and RWS Hollow Points, I was able to get five-shot 50 yard groups as small as 3/8ths of an inch. Afraid those days are now gone.

Some years ago, I read a magazine article by Ross Seyfried in which he precisely detailed how he got a re-barreled Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt to shoot five cast heavyweight bullets into a one inch group at 100 yards. That may be possible with an extremely modified semi-auto, but I doubt it.

My Marvel/Springfield NM 1911 .22LR, using LAPUA Midas+ ammo, has regularly placed five into less than one inch at 50 yards, but hasn’t yet quite equaled performance of the S&W 63 shown above.

Oh I really want to add one of those to my collection. That is an old school feast for the eyes.

That’s a beautiful revolver, what barrel length?

Agreed.

..."an elegant weapon for a more civilized age" The great philosopher Obi Wan Kenobi.

6 inch.
Bob

Double post...see below.
Bob

5" S&W M&P from 1936.
Bob

Another outstanding example of a revolver with personality. And, I expect a bit more user friendly in double action, too.

There was a “veteran” on the San Jose CHP Squad, when I was the range master there, who carried a 6” M&P in a clamshell holster while the other officers all had some kind of adjustable sight revolver. Every quarterly qualification day, that old coot could be counted on to out score nearly everyone.

I actually very much like the double action on Colt medium frame revolvers, such as the Official Police. I can shoot the heck out of them double action, with ease.

My Official Police and Police Positive Special:

Old school cool.



New school cool.

A brace of Five Screw Model 10s:

I agree! Have a new to me Ruger GP100 headed my way in 44 Special.

Revolvers rule, here is my clunker "paperweight" bruiser.....



Thick cylinder walls mean it can stand stout ammo, no problemo.🦾

Taurus 605?