**POLL** Gunowners - Semi-Auto or Revolver

[StageLeft]

I said semi-auto. Although a good revolver generally has more stopping power when used in such applications as chasing down a perp (example: Dirty Harry and "Make my day, punk" with the .44), or shooting a police officer (example: GTA: Vice City and the one-shot kill with the .357), a clip-fed handgun can still represent when needed (example: Snatch and "- the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point 5 0" written on the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence" with the desert eagle handgun).

The benefits of a clip are noted in situations where a lot of rounds need to be fired (example: Counterstrike), especially when multiple homeys need to be put 6 feet under (example: Regulators "Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold").

 

[Quixfire]

Revolver for target shooting

Semi-Auto for personal defense

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I said semi-auto. Although a good revolver generally has more stopping power when used in such applications as chasing down a perp (example: Dirty Harry and "Make my day, punk" with the .44), or shooting a police officer (example: GTA: Vice City and the one-shot kill with the .357), a clip-fed handgun can still represent when needed (example: Snatch and "- the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point 5 0" written on the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence" with the desert eagle handgun).

The benefits of a clip are noted in situations where a lot of rounds need to be fired (example: Counterstrike), especially when multiple homeys need to be put 6 feet under (example: Regulators "Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold").

Excellent info. Don't forget the added stability you will get when firing a semi-auto with the weapon held sideways, parallel to the ground.

 

[Supahfreak]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: FallenHero
because ive shot for hours with several different semi-autos, and neither my brother, my dad, nor I have ever had a raw thumb. It doesnt take much to pull the action back...you must be doing something wrong.

I think his point was that getting the bullets into the magazine can be hard on your thumbs. The last couple rounds can be a bitch to get in.

Of course putting the mag into the gun & chambering a round is easy.

Viper GTS

THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I started to think I wasnt being clear. Huhuhuh I shoot gun good for long time.

FreAk

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: compudog
How can you possibly play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto????

It's over after one shot .

Not necessarily. Some friends of ours lived next to some folks that had a kid try and play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto pistol. Went through the sides of his head, took out his optic nerves, but he lived.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: compudog
How can you possibly play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto????

That would be tough

Ausm

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I said semi-auto. Although a good revolver generally has more stopping power when used in such applications as chasing down a perp (example: Dirty Harry and "Make my day, punk" with the .44), or shooting a police officer (example: GTA: Vice City and the one-shot kill with the .357), a clip-fed handgun can still represent when needed (example: Snatch and "- the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point 5 0" written on the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence" with the desert eagle handgun).

The benefits of a clip are noted in situations where a lot of rounds need to be fired (example: Counterstrike), especially when multiple homeys need to be put 6 feet under (example: Regulators "Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold").

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A "clip" is used to load a magazine. Semiauto long gun, like a M-1 Garand. It's a rail like strip of steel that holds the rounds to be pushed into the magazine.

Auto handguns use a magazine not a clip. A detail for sure but old gun nuts laugh over this misuse of term....................
:sun:

 

[Supahfreak]

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: Supahfreak

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Revolvers should stick to western movies. Too much time involved in reloading.

What are you talking about, my thumb is raw after 30 minutes of firing Semi-Autos because that spring in the clip is so damn tight. I can fire a Revolver all day. I guarantee that if you lay both weapons on a table unloaded and see which you can load and fire first the Revolver will win and when I say unloaded I mean no bullets in the Mag.

FreAk

you must be REALLY weak if you think the semi-autos are a b!tch to load. 5 seconds, MAX, for me to throw the clip in, pull back the slide and fire.

Now that I know what you're talking about, you take 5 seconds to put a Mag in a Pistol? Talk about weak...

FreAk

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: HokieESM
Just FYI, its .455 Webley. Very low velocity, high weight bullet (which was the norm--see the older .45 Colts) before our knowledge of metallurgy let us take the pressures up by a factor of 2.

well... at least i knew the name of it

thanks for correcting me.

 

[MustISO]

I have both.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: ausm

Originally posted by: compudog
How can you possibly play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto????

That would be tough

Ausm

i guess u could toss blanks into a clip in some random order with 1 real bullet