Please allow me to put up here a little excerpt from Charter Arms in support of TwoRivers:
Advantages of a Charter Arms Revolver for Civilian Personal Self Defense and Professional Back UpAs a deterrent, revolvers are easily recognized as a firearm, even in reduced light, especially if manufactured in a visible finish. The revolver’s quick recognition, especially in reduced light by the threat (bad guy), even a dumb one, that this is a real gun and not something else may save the owner from having to fire to convince otherwise. No normal person wants to shoot someone. Many folks forget that even if everything goes their way in a shooting, there are legal costs, potential lawsuits, and the long-term mental stress and strain of having shot someone. And if the DA feels it was not necessary, the problems get worse. The mere sight of a recognizable real-looking and loaded firearm will stop many an attacker in their tracks!
There is little doubt a revolver is loaded and many times the threat/attacker will see it’s loaded by simply looking at the cylinder with the ammunition in it. This visual adds to a deterrent impact.
Revolvers are easy and quick to operate. Simply aim and fire. No switches or tricky functioning, stoppages or other malfunctions; they work when they are most needed!
Any trainer will tell you that revolvers require far less training than semi-autos to fire accurately and safely, thus making them the best firearm for the average citizen for self-defense purposes.
Revolvers are very fast to get into action, incredibly reliable and nearly foolproof.
Revolvers are generally recognized by most experts as safer to operate than semi-automatics.
Some feel revolver trigger pulls, especially in double-action self-defense modes are heavy (you read about it in every gun test magazine article). But in life and death adrenalin-filled situations the pull of a revolver trigger is not even noticed by the shooter. This is one reason why accidental semi-auto discharges are so common when people are under stress; those triggers are much lighter and under high stress almost anything can cause an accidental discharge. Light triggers and stress also are related to contagious firing which we see when many police officers with auto pistols drawn, fire and keep firing after somehow being set off at the sound of one shot being fired or a loud noise. The double action revolver is actually safer from so-called accidental discharges.
Revolvers are generally much more affordably priced (less parts, less development time, less complicated to make, etc.) than most semi-automatic pistols.
Today’s revolver ammunition is much more effective than that of just 20 years ago. Charter Arms revolvers offer powerful loadings in compact and lightweight packages that you can actually use without undue target losing recoil. They include: 32 H&R Magnum, .38 Special +P, .357 Magnum and .44 Special calibers. Typically a 2” barrel will lose only 30-85 fps velocity over a 5-inch barrel, so snub barrels are not a big velocity disadvantage but do present a definite easy carry advantage.
Ammunition mix can be significant and tailored for use. A revolver can digest and fire any ammunition chambered for that particular firearm. This can be any type of bullet design or ammunition mix you may wish to carry, such as perhaps the first two shots being frangible ammunition followed by heavier hollow-point or even solid loads. Revolvers are not sensitive to the bullet design and when it comes to defending one’s life, this can be a very significant matter.
While high-capacity autos are popular, well known shooters like Jeff Cooper and many other professional shooters have argued for years (and we paraphrase) it’s accuracy that counts, not all of those high-capacity magazine, liability loaded, people-and- property damaging misses.
http://www.charterfirearms.com/communit ... olve1.html
.... so very soon i ll have to buy one ... and thats where i need some expert suggestions.
