[Zero defect]

The most innocuous reasons: variety entertains, and there are collectors.

Adding advertising and promoting the image of revolvers does help manufacturers to stay afloat. I assume, revolvers are easier to manufacture and have fewer problems than semis, which makes it easier for the manufacturer to honor warranties by lowering overhead costs.

A 357 is easier to carry than a 10mm, and depending on the ammo, it can provide similar protection. A 2" snubnose easily fits in most pockets.

As someone said, a revolver fires irrespective of limp-wristing.

It doesn't leave the casing behind, which might be good for reloading. Criminals often use .22 revolvers with lead ammo; I won't explain why.

 

[MinervaDoe]

For myself, I believe that mastering the double action pull on a revolver has vastly improved my trigger work on my other pistols.
Plus, shooting .357 Magnum out of a 49 ounce Redhawk A) tames the recoil, B) gives me an eight round capacity, and C) makes holding a 32 ounce Glock 29 a piece of cake.
PLUS, the aesthetics are just cool.

 

[Gryff]

So why is it happening, in your view?

Wheel guns offer several different aspects that appeal to people:

There is a bit of old world elegance in them, especially in terms of the mechanics of how they function.

Some people find the tactile and audible feedback of the mechanism’s action to be appealing and satisfying.

They are easy to operate and are reliable

In single-action, they are easy to shoot accurately

In double-action, they are a challenge to run hard and accurately, which says something about you as a shooter if you can do it

I used to jokingly mock my Dad when I was a kid because of his love for revolvers. I preferred bottom feeders and still do on the whole. But I’ve come to also love shooting revolvers and think my father would appreciate seeing me do so if he could.

 

[Maccabeus]

I don't know about a general revival, but this thread is reviving the revolver itch in me!

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...

Tell me about that 7" 3-5-7 series 586+. I've been eyeing the 5" model.

The only thing saving me from buying it is that I can't decide between it and

a regular 4" 686+ or
627 V Comp or
TRR8 or
586 L-Comp or
19 Carry Comp or
681 or
625 or
610 or
4.25 Python or
King Cobra Target or
King Cobra Target 22 or
K6s Combat 4" or
K6SX or
AL9.0 or
AL22 or
DB SDR or
692 or
...

But as soon as I narrow it down...

(And, no "get them all" isn't an option unless everybody wants to pick one to gift me for my birthday).

 

[Tvov]

Revolvers are the next 'new' thing in firearms. We have at least a generation and a half of young guys who are immersed in the Glock's polymer pistols and AR15 patterns for the last 20 years

Revolvers and Lever Actions were unknown to them.

Yep, go to a range with a lever action and seemingly everyone comes over to look.

At youth shoots where there is a variety of guns, it is amazing to see all the kids gravitate to the lever actions.

 

[LApm9]

Because revolvers are one of the last affordable precision machines a person can own. You pull the trigger (or cock the hammer) and the cylinder and hammer move in perfect synchronicity using only the power of your finger.

Autoloaders are of equal precision but everything happens too fast for you to see.

 

[OMEGA5]

My $0.02. Two reasons come to mind.
1. A lot of us "Boomers" were raised on revolvers. I carried one as a cop from 69 to 91 when
suddenly the Sheriff discovered Glocks and made them mandatory for all. I was lucky and
talked him into letting me carry a 1911. Anyway, now that we are older and arthritic as heck,
the revolver's ease of use plus the light weight of the LCRs and S&W air weights make them
the perfect choice for us in our 60's. 70's and 80's.
2. A lot of new shooters out there like the revolver for the same reason we arthritics do.
And then there's the gun salesmen who needs to unload unwanted revolvers who convince
young first time permit holders and shooters (especially women) that a S&W 340PD at only
11 oz in man stopping .357 Magnum is exactly what they need as a first gun. 😡
I'm 75 and my hands absolutely ach to distraction at times, carry a revolver more and more.
Would I rather carry my P220 in .45 with 10 round mags? You bet, but my hips and back
(spondylolisthesis) say "No, not happening". So my LCR9 or LCRx38 are my usual at home
and around the farm gun. The Sig P365 is my "Go to town gun" cause I can still do all bump,
smack, rack maneuvers a FTE or FTF need to clear and it's still light enough to carry. I
can't say that about any of mt 6 + 1 pistols.
Dano

 

[Lucnik]

I don't know about a general revival, but this thread is reviving the revolver itch in me!



Tell me about that 7" 3-5-7 series 586+. I've been eyeing the 5" model.

The only thing saving me from buying it is that I can't decide between it and

a regular 4" 686+ or
627 V Comp or
TRR8 or
586 L-Comp or
19 Carry Comp or
681 or
625 or
610 or
4.25 Python or
King Cobra Target or
King Cobra Target 22 or
K6s Combat 4" or
K6SX or
AL9.0 or
AL22 or
DB SDR or
692 or
...

But as soon as I narrow it down...

(And, no "get them all" isn't an option unless everybody wants to pick one to gift me for my birthday).

The 3” K6s is a great choice as is a 625.

 

[skotsmob]

I was reading about the new Diamondback SDR (which seems cool)…and I began to think about the Kimber revo,
And Colt’s revival of the Python…

So why is it happening, in your view?

Thank you for your thoughts!

I've had to purchase several revolvers over the years because I wanted to go shooting and only revolver ammo was available at the time. Now I have a bunch of revolvers in addition to autos.

 

[tomrkba]

Can you post an example?

See their analysis.

Walls are 6 (revolver) and 10 (limited mag capacity). John mentions 0-17 where 17 was the max he could confirm. He also mentions that video doesn’t always capture all shots. 80% are 0 shots fired with 6-8 being common due to smaller guns used. Out of tens of thousands of videos reviewed, hundreds makes sense if the bell curve hovers around 8.

Start here:

Part 3 has some interesting stuff in it. 1/3 of all attacks involve multiple attackers. This is significant.

Slides: 30k Lessons v2.0 PDF.pdf

 

[tomrkba]

I've got a Colt Lawman, S&W 629. Pick up my Python from waiting period jail on the 27th and a 686 that just arrived at my FFL.


I'm about to be more confused than our President.

Actually, I find opening the cylinder between S&W and Colt to be a non issue. My finger feels the latch and does the right thing.

 

[fastbolt]

Actually, I find opening the cylinder between S&W and Colt to be a non issue. My fonger feels the latch and does the right thing.

What I like to call ingrained 'pattern recognition'. As my thumb feels the cylinder latch, whichever model it may be, the ingrained manipulation occurs at the subconscious level. Of course, that's because I have years of many thousands of repetitions of operating revolvers. Since I haven't owned a Colt since my first DA revolver, the ingrained manipulations have probably faded for the Colt's pull-back latch, and have in recent decades have been devoted to the Ruger and S&W revolvers I've owned and used since that Colt.

My hire-date missed the cutoff for being issued a Python at my former agency, as they'd switched to S&W 66's just before I was hired. Everyone who had originally been issued a Python could continue to carry it until the end of the revolver years, and most did. The rest of us either carried whatever we wished to buy on our own, or turned in the 66's to carry the then-new 686's for several years, until the decision was made to go from revolvers to hi-caps, so we wouldn't be 'out-gunned by drug dealers'. (Which wasn't actually a 'thing' in our area, but it played well to the press and admin decision-makers.)

 

[tomrkba]

My hire-date missed the cutoff for being issued a Python at my former agency, as they'd switched to S&W 66's just before I was hired. Everyone who had originally been issued a Python could continue to carry it until the end of the revolver years, and most did. The rest of us either carried whatever we wished to buy on our own, or turned in the 66's to carry the then-new 686's for several years, until the decision was made to go from revolvers to hi-caps, so we wouldn't be 'out-gunned by drug dealers'. (Which wasn't actually a 'thing' in our area, but it played well to the press and admin decision-makers.)

I always wondered about that "outgunned" thing. It seems to me that being "outgunned" is a result of poor planning, lack of thought and bad tactics. Why deploy a SWAT team, and a whole bunch of patrol to lock down the area, when two guys can grab the suspect when he's not paying attention while going for coffee at 6 AM? Is getting up early such a chore?

 

[Maccabeus]

The 3” K6s is a great choice as is a 625. View attachment 1275149
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I've got a 3" K6s in DAO. I'm eyeing the 4" in DASA.

 

[fastbolt]

I always wondered about that "outgunned" thing. It seems to me that being "outgunned" is a result of poor planning, lack of thought and bad tactics. Why deploy a SWAT team, and a whole bunch of patrol to lock down the area, when two guys can grab the suspect when he's not paying attention while going for coffee at 6 AM? Is getting up early such a chore?

I suspect that Hollywood helped build the impression of the 'outgunned' thinking. It certainly played an increasingly prominent role in some dialogue and 'action' scenes scripted.

I remember after the Miami-Dade FBI incident and the North Hollywood bank robbery, how LE training looked at being 'outgunned' more from the perspective of cops only being armed with handguns facing determined threats who were armed with semiauto rifles.

I spoke with the guy at my former agency who originally wrote the proposal to stop carrying revolvers and start carrying hi-cap 9's (although swat still wanted to keep their .45's, and did for some years). Somewhere in one of the plastic bins of my old training materials, I think I still have the binder of the proposal he'd submitted, which he later gave to me. I remember him explaining that he thought it might get some better traction that time around, since we'd just benefited from a large asset seizure of drug money (which funded the acquisition and transition training). That was coincidentally a few years after the Miami-Dade incident. Like some other large agencies, several years later we used the North Hollywood robbery to propose adopting a Patrol Rifle policy and training.

The planning involving how and when to execute an arrest or bench warrant, whether high risk or not, is typically more of a day-to-day strategic and tactical consideration. Ditto the decision whether to use 'regular' patrol or plainclothes/investigations people, or request a response by a 'tactical' special enforcement or swat team to service the warrant.

 

[RGP]

I suspect that Hollywood helped build the impression of the 'outgunned' thinking. It certainly played an increasingly prominent role in some dialogue and 'action' scenes scripted.

Everyone hears about the "we were outgunned because he had an AR15" thing. I forgot where it happened, but there was an incident a few years ago where the shooter had a bolt action rifle and the police all had AR15's and suddenly the official line was "we were outgunned because he had a scope sighted bolt action .243."

 

[fastbolt]

Everyone hears about the "we were outgunned because he had an AR15" thing. I forgot where it happened, but there was an incident a few years ago where the shooter had a bolt action rifle and the police all had AR15's and suddenly the official line was "we were outgunned because he had a scope sighted bolt action .243."

Well, it's understandable that some common firearms training will compare only being armed with a handgun, when the attacker is armed with a long gun (AR, lever, bolt gun or even any type of shotgun), as being 'outgunned'. The GSW ballistic capability of the average centerfire rifle or shotgun (especially at close range, or with a slug at longer distances) is typically greater than that produced by the common duty/self defense handgun calibers.

One of the factors often discussed in LE training is the ability of someone to use a centerfire rifle to more easily - and accurately - reach out further than with the average handgun, and to have the ability to perforate the average handgun (and shotgun) rated body armor worn by police.

'Outgunned' is sort of a euphemism used in some respects, and it allows the people hearing it to imbue it with whatever meaning it is that they may feel is real. Handy buzzword for some folks, including the media.

 

[Hoss]

Manufacturers just trying to get ahead of the vermin in DC and their semi-auto bans that are coming?

 

[sunfish]

WHY
Since begiing of time
Reliable, shoots almost any ammo
Shoots the mags, e.g. 357 41 44 = powerful = needs fewer rounds to stop a fight
Reclaim brass EZ

Some also say
EZier to clean
Fewer moving parts to go wrong

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

I'm up to 5 now with 2 recently bought in the last few months----I bought a 629 because I wanted something more powerful. And more recently a 686+ because the price was too good to pass up and I had been wanting a 6in barreled 357 for a while. Maybe a rimfire revolver is in my future too.

I keep a Colt 1911 just because---it is one of my more accurate guns and all 1911's should be Colts lol.

Have also got a couple new Glocks to explore the concealed carry options.

Yes, I like them all--no this one but not that one for me.