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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner
Wait, if a revolver has a FAIL to fire and you pull the trigger a second time it will not strike the primer of the failed to fire round. It will turn the cylinder to the next round.
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Wait - that's exactly what we want to happen, and I'm sure what the old trooper was getting at. With absolutely no fiddly-dicking around whatsoever, there's another (presumably good) round under the hammer. Us revolver guys are not looking for a second go at the one that just failed. We'll leave that to you semi-auto guys. The revolver man (who can just keep yanking the trigger) will have three or four rounds in you before you get things squared away again.
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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner
If my 1911 fails to fire on a round I can pull the hammer back for a second go but I train with snap caps mixed in with my normal ammo mixed in the mags. Fail to fire = pull slide back and eject failed ammo and fire good. 2,500 rounds and the only fail to fire my 1911 have had was once one of my sons loaded a round in the mag back-wards! 45acp chambered 75% of the way.
I'll keep the 3 second reload on my 1911 over the longer reload for a revolver.
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The vast majority of civilian self defense situations are settled long before that first reload would ever enter the picture.
A930Rocket, you are a lucky man. Beautiful little revolver. You can't possibly hurt it by shooting it, so you might as well. I think you will be pleasantly surprised by its accuracy and all around shootability. Those are really fun little guns.