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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KurtM" data-source="post: 4228691" data-attributes="member: 6064">At no time have I said one type was better than the other. All I am pointing out is that revolvers can and do Jam. The problem I have seen is too many folks think of a revolver as a load and forget system and they are not. You have to check the screws, you have to check the ejector rod, you have to keep it clean under the ejector star. As pointed out, and not even by me, when revolvers Jam they are pretty much done until worked on on a bench with tools.Now personally why I don't carry one comes from my youth. Hawaii 50 and Manix were all the crazy. My dad got a model 36 Smith. At the time I was usually carrying a Colt Single action around the ranch for day to day stuff. Being a kid I really wanted to carry that little 38! So my dad let me. One day we were at the dump and someone had discarded a coffee machine... the old kind that dropped a cup and you got to watch it fill up the cup. Cabinet was sheet metal. I shot that cabinet from about 8 yards and not a single 158 grain round nose 38s went through the sheet metal. Dad got out the Colt and that 45 went all the way in and broke a bunch of stuff inside and the whole cabinet shook. After that I have never ever had the desire to ever have one. When it came time to buy a pistol I bought a Nickeled Colt Combat Commander and never looked back. Yes I know there are much better ammo choices out there for these guns and yes they are compact and light pocket carry guns, just not for me</blockquote>

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