Was testing out my new Hi Viz GP100 front sight today on some paper plates. I use Safariland speed loaders and I’m pretty fast with them. I recommend the Hi Viz and the Safariland speed loader if you carry a revolver.
The wife was next to me with her G42 shooting her own plate. She fired her 7th round as I was ejecting my spent cartridges. I reloaded and closed the cylinder as she fired the first round from her second magazine.
Y’all see where I’m going with this already I bet.
I’ve watched videos and debated with people for years about how many rounds is enough. I have always said I feel just fine and dandy in summer clothes with my 5 shot LCR in a shorts pocket. From the time I purchased it I’ve carried 5 extra rounds for the LCR on a HKS speed loader, and recently started carrying 5 more on a speed strip. Speed here being relative. I was happy with the revolver and 15 shots.
Today was the first time I had a chance to personally compare revolver reloading versus magazine fed semiauto, not just watch some Youtuber do it. When we had both finished firing I had 12 holes in my plate, she had 13 in hers. 10 yards away. And that’s when it sank in. If she had been shooting her G22, she would have gotten 16 in her plate before I fired my 7th shot from the GP100 and been starting her second mag.
Average shots fired is 3, blah blah blah... I don’t know why this hit me like some sort of epiphany. But as she walked back to the truck and I continued using up a box of 38 Special WWB the desire to be firing a Glock with a 100 round beta mag on it was incredible. I was aiming at a paper plate, but kept seeing 47 Ronin. Maybe I was just tired from being up all night.
At work we’re all on the line with semiautos. At the indoor civilian range I tend to ignore what people are doing since I’m the only revolver guy in there and everyone else is emptying 1911s with red dot optics and crimson trace lasers into the head of the target from five feet. So I guess I’ve just missed how much faster someone driving a semi is going to be than I’m going to be driving a wheel gun.
Or maybe today it occurred to me that if we had been in an actual emergency my beloved would be covering my ass for me as I’m trying to reload instead of the other way around. Unsat.
It’s a dead horse. We can’t see the future. You can’t prepare for all eventualities. And the first Rule of Gunfighting is still: Have a gun. I still love my LCR. But as warm as it was here tonight, I took my gal to dinner in blue jeans with my Glock 26 on my hip with a spare magazine under a loose shirt.
With the +1 finger extensions on my G26 and her two spare G42 mags, that’s enough for 42 Ronin, theoretically... hopefully there would have been at least one good guy in the joint carrying at least a five shot revolver.
Not trying to convince anyone of anything. And I’ll still use my LCR for carry. Rule One, remember? But from now on I won’t be so quick on the five shots is enough stuff. $.02
The wife was next to me with her G42 shooting her own plate. She fired her 7th round as I was ejecting my spent cartridges. I reloaded and closed the cylinder as she fired the first round from her second magazine.
Y’all see where I’m going with this already I bet.
I’ve watched videos and debated with people for years about how many rounds is enough. I have always said I feel just fine and dandy in summer clothes with my 5 shot LCR in a shorts pocket. From the time I purchased it I’ve carried 5 extra rounds for the LCR on a HKS speed loader, and recently started carrying 5 more on a speed strip. Speed here being relative. I was happy with the revolver and 15 shots.
Today was the first time I had a chance to personally compare revolver reloading versus magazine fed semiauto, not just watch some Youtuber do it. When we had both finished firing I had 12 holes in my plate, she had 13 in hers. 10 yards away. And that’s when it sank in. If she had been shooting her G22, she would have gotten 16 in her plate before I fired my 7th shot from the GP100 and been starting her second mag.
Average shots fired is 3, blah blah blah... I don’t know why this hit me like some sort of epiphany. But as she walked back to the truck and I continued using up a box of 38 Special WWB the desire to be firing a Glock with a 100 round beta mag on it was incredible. I was aiming at a paper plate, but kept seeing 47 Ronin. Maybe I was just tired from being up all night.
At work we’re all on the line with semiautos. At the indoor civilian range I tend to ignore what people are doing since I’m the only revolver guy in there and everyone else is emptying 1911s with red dot optics and crimson trace lasers into the head of the target from five feet. So I guess I’ve just missed how much faster someone driving a semi is going to be than I’m going to be driving a wheel gun.
Or maybe today it occurred to me that if we had been in an actual emergency my beloved would be covering my ass for me as I’m trying to reload instead of the other way around. Unsat.
It’s a dead horse. We can’t see the future. You can’t prepare for all eventualities. And the first Rule of Gunfighting is still: Have a gun. I still love my LCR. But as warm as it was here tonight, I took my gal to dinner in blue jeans with my Glock 26 on my hip with a spare magazine under a loose shirt.
With the +1 finger extensions on my G26 and her two spare G42 mags, that’s enough for 42 Ronin, theoretically... hopefully there would have been at least one good guy in the joint carrying at least a five shot revolver.
Not trying to convince anyone of anything. And I’ll still use my LCR for carry. Rule One, remember? But from now on I won’t be so quick on the five shots is enough stuff. $.02