{"id":8726,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:42:21","slug":"revolvers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/revolvers\/","title":{"rendered":"REVOLVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m preparing to teach my once-a-year Revolver Only class in Slidell, Louisiana very soon. https:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\/event\/mag-revolver-class\/<\/a> . There may even be a couple of openings if  you can make it on short notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love doing this…teaching what is becoming a lost art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The semiautomatic pistol dominates on firing lines and in police holsters (and most armed citizens\u2019 holsters, it seems) but that doesn\u2019t make the double-action revolver with swing-out cylinder obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

True, it has a long trigger pull for each shot than most autos, and it carries fewer cartridges when fully loaded.  But it also has its own advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— It\u2019s not dependent on cartridge power or bullet profile for feeding.\u00a0 It will run just fine with completely flat-nosed full wadcutter bullets, with light loads for acclimating new shooters or with Elmer Keith Memorial Magnum loads.\u00a0 It will cycle just fine with blanks that would choke an auto on the first shot, and rat-shot\/snake-shot loads which often do. And no one has yet made a .500 Magnum autoloader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— While a service-grade auto will better withstand muck and dirt, the revolver doesn\u2019t need regular lubrication to work like the long bearing surfaces between an autoloader\u2019s slide and frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— It\u2019s simple to load, unload, and check for a shooter with weak hands or very limited handgun experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to its two major shortcomings, a dedicated shooter can learn to reload a revolver faster than most non-gun-oriented cops can reload their service pistols, and certainly faster than the average thug can reload his stolen \u201cautomatic.\u201d  And the long trigger pull? It teaches you to distribute trigger pressure. I have long maintained that a month of shooting double action with a revolver will teach a shooter to stop jerking the short, easy trigger of his autoloader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve met a lot of shooters who are more accurate with their double action round guns than with their square ones, and I may even be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m preparing to teach my once-a-year Revolver Only class in Slidell, Louisiana very soon. https:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\/event\/mag-revolver-class\/ . There may even be a couple of openings if  you can make it on short notice. I love doing this…teaching what is becoming a lost art. The semiautomatic pistol dominates on firing lines and in police holsters (and most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}