PieterCoetzee
Professional
Maybe BUT he only shot 44Special loads. At least the new guys in Magnum Force carried Pythons with 357 LoadsNobody would have watched the Dirty Harry series if he had a hi-power.....
Why revolvers?
- Thread starter PAGunGuy
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In L.A.,we had to buy our own, as well as the holders. After a few years the department relented and purchased them for new hires.
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PAGunGuy
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Terrible trigger pull in double action, ridiculously limited capacity and more difficult and timely reload
I ran tevokvers as a duty hunter in the 80ās and 90ās
Here is the main issue with why 1911ās were not accepted on a broad scale. Back in the day 1911ās wete pretty mill spec basic and had to be homey modified. Although they ran ball fine the JHP of the early days wete not so dependable.
The other item even in the older days the 1911 was looked at as a military gun (yea it was made in 38 Suoer for the late 20ās and 30ās auto bandits but wasn't widespread in LE circles) and carrying it ācocked and Lickedā wa escargot tj a lot of people and had a bad perception to peolme who were not addressed to it and there was not a large populace of people into personal protection and running many handguns other tjan
A revolver at the home in a drawer 22ās deer rifles and shotguns were way more popular
Wheelguns started having better sights by the 40ās (whenever they put adjustable from the factory aka Combat Masterpiece pre model 15 and the registered magnum from early in in 1935)
And the 38 just worked even in the day of SWC and RN non expanding bullets and as Pat Rogers of NYPD (RIP) said whem he showed the SWC load of NYPD and the younger polymer kids gasps and asked how they survived. Pat with his accent answers āit worked fine if you can shootā
The other issue cops were as a whole more shokters than cops are now. It wasnāt uncommon for incentives for rop marksmanship to be paid both financially and bragging rights there were A LOT of NRA Bullseye sockets in cars and sanctions PPC matches where accuracy by accuracy on a B8 won not accuracy by volume on a huge A or C zone.
Here is the main issue with why 1911ās were not accepted on a broad scale. Back in the day 1911ās wete pretty mill spec basic and had to be homey modified. Although they ran ball fine the JHP of the early days wete not so dependable.
The other item even in the older days the 1911 was looked at as a military gun (yea it was made in 38 Suoer for the late 20ās and 30ās auto bandits but wasn't widespread in LE circles) and carrying it ācocked and Lickedā wa escargot tj a lot of people and had a bad perception to peolme who were not addressed to it and there was not a large populace of people into personal protection and running many handguns other tjan
A revolver at the home in a drawer 22ās deer rifles and shotguns were way more popular
Wheelguns started having better sights by the 40ās (whenever they put adjustable from the factory aka Combat Masterpiece pre model 15 and the registered magnum from early in in 1935)
And the 38 just worked even in the day of SWC and RN non expanding bullets and as Pat Rogers of NYPD (RIP) said whem he showed the SWC load of NYPD and the younger polymer kids gasps and asked how they survived. Pat with his accent answers āit worked fine if you can shootā
The other issue cops were as a whole more shokters than cops are now. It wasnāt uncommon for incentives for rop marksmanship to be paid both financially and bragging rights there were A LOT of NRA Bullseye sockets in cars and sanctions PPC matches where accuracy by accuracy on a B8 won not accuracy by volume on a huge A or C zone.