This may be a dumb question but why would anyone carry a .22 revolver? Is there any advantage to having such a small cartridge? Does it hurt? What makes it better than a .32 or .38?
This may be a dumb question but why would anyone carry a .22 revolver?
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A .22lr revolver would have deleted Reagan if schizoman used regular ass 40 grain bullets.
I dunno if the difference is too meaningful since they just look like hollow points with a bit of explosive in the core that at worst hinders expansion. .22 lr is a deadly round but that doesn't mean you can't do better especially out of a short barrel especially out of a revolver, not that it matters because he missed every shot and only almost killed reagan with a lucky ricochet which I guess emphasizes training and circumstances over petty caliber arguments.
a used rough rider at the pawn shop was 49.99.
also, cheap ammo means that if you willing to practice you can get very good at shooting it.
22lr revolver isn't a *terrible choice. Just know that if you pull that trigger, you goin have to pull it till it goes click click click.
>Does it hurt?
Dude dont feel bad. I carried a 22lr as my first gun for a few years. helped me get the hang of things, and it was cheap. and I leanred to shoot it like an ace in just a few outings since I could easily afford to shoot the bugger. Went through a box at a time each outing. it was nice. 🙂
just learn that fricker like you learned your own dick. you'll do ok.
> does it hurt
Only for small people. You could probably just walk it off.
Yes. It's a dumb question.
Because in the end, shot placement is the only thing that can defeat human adrenaline. A .22 revolver can be higher capacity.
My first carry gun was a Beretta 950 jetfire in 25 acp. Its still my carry gun to this day. 9 shots of .25 acp & it just sits in my pocket.
Mostly because your granny might not be able to handle .38spl and as for the .32s, .32 H&R might as well be .38 and .32 S&W may as well be a modern .22LR.
If you are literate enough to read, this is a short summary:
https://www.guns.com/news/review/gel-test-22-lr-for-defense-the-little-round-that-could
You want a revolver, look for an 8 or 9 shot, a 2" or 2.5" barrel for self-defense, CCI Stinger ammo for reliability and putting a hurt on your target. There are certainly other options, but that should be your base metrics and don't accept less for self defense.
You want a revolver for reliability, look for the longest barrel you can carry for your needs to optimize the powder burn and increase velocity & impact energy. 3" or 4" is great, but if you want something more manageable, try not to go under 2". Find out what "cylinder gap" means and get that as tight as you can to maximize powder burn down the barrel, keep your weapon perfectly clean and ready for operation at 3 a.m. in the morning as you stumble out of bed. .22 powder is infamous for burning dirty in a handgun, and a tight cylinder gap means keeping the weapon fricking clean. Shoot it a LOT (2000 rounds in the first 100 days, 50-100 rounds every month for the next 6 months) so you are very familiar with it.
If you're defending your castle, a .22 carbine with a 14" or maybe a 12" barrel will vastly increase the pain a CCI Stinger will inflict, and there are then even more options to consider. Keep your revolver in your pocket as backup in case your semi-auto carbine jams or misfires.
>This may be a dumb question but why would anyone carry a .22 revolver?
Because they require almost no investment. They're cheap, light-weight, small, don't print, the ammo is literally the most common round on Earth, and the only reason the gun won't go bang when you pull the trigger is because of the ammo. A revolver exchanges not being able to reload for never having to worry about a failure to fire, because another trigger pull lights off the next chamber. If you need to ditch your gun for any reason you're out $50-100 and it's really easy to get an identical replacement.
More importantly, because it's small and light, it takes almost no effort to carry pretty much everywhere. I have a .22 auto as a backup gun. It weighs less than my frigging key ring and fits in the key pocket of my blue jeans. At that point >some< level of carry becomes a reflex instead of something you have to plan
>Is there any advantage to having such a small cartridge?
It's light, ubiquitous, and incredibly cheap. You can also get a 12-shot .22 cylinder into the same space as 5 rounds of "real" ammo. The pressures involved with .22 are extremely easy to contain, which means the gun can be light and made out of cheap materials. It's also comfy to shoot, so you shoot it more. Or at least you should. A hundred bucks right now will buy you 150 rounds of .45 ACP, 200 of .38 SPL, and a couple thousand rounds of .22 LR. Which you'll need to get and use, because the lethal areas you need to hit with .22 are about the size of a quarter.
>Does it hurt?
Thou art a moron.
>What makes it better than a .32 or .38?
It's incredibly cheap and rimmed. The .32 is an unrimmed round, which makes putting it in a revolver problematic, and ballistically it's just as fricking garbage as the .22 if not more so. The .38 is better overall, especially in guns that can chamber .357.. but that also means the gun needs to be substantially tougher, bigger, and either heavier or vastly more expensive.
>The .32 is an unrimmed round
Thinking of .32 ACP, which is an incredibly common carry round and the one the LGS will have on the shelf. I suppose you could be arguing for something like .32 Smith, but those are more expensive and almost no-one has them on the shelf unless there are cowboy shooters in the neighborhood.
Yeah that's the point, you shouldn't be thinking of ACP in a fricking revolver.
.32 acp is semi-rimmed. Every other .32 pistol/revolver cartridge I can name is rimmed.
>It's incredibly cheap and rimmed.
Every single thing after this sentence is utterly, embarrassingly wrong.
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Snub nose revolvers are some of the toughest revolvers to master. Rimfire has the added disadvantage of requiring a heavier trigger for reliable ignition. Thus, if you are to master such a weapon, most other handguns will be easy by comparison.
Plus, the ammo is cheap enough to actually shoot.
It won't jam on the second round for starters
A revolver does seem like a tough choice just because of the low capacity paired with small caliber. I sometimes carry my p17, which feels fine because it's 17 shots of .22
There's more death caused by .22 than any other caliber in most countries [those that aren't in a civil war where people carry AKs anyway]
>this moronic meme again
Two things:
1) the percentage of people shot who died
2) how long it took for people to die
The total number is bullshit because .22 is used so commonly in shootings and self defense. You can claim that .50 cal balls out of a black powder rifle are completely non-lethal because there's maybe one death recorded for that specific caliber & gun every five years.
Also, .22 is so easy to control and master that people who use it are more likely to get their shot placement correct, and get multiple hits, that the statistic becomes meaningless when compared to something like 9 mm where crackheads mag dump into a neighborhood and hit almost nobody with 300 rounds.
.22 is only a problem in semi-automatics because of the chance of rimlock or other feed issues. Basically any caliber is good enough for self defense.