A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a used Smith & Wesson Model 10. So did a friend. On Sunday, we took them to the range.
Really, we didn't expect much for sub-$300 revolvers that were probably carried by cops who may not have ever bothered to clean them.
But did they shoot! Off a rest, both guns fired groups, at 25', that would have been covered by a coffee mug. And this wasn't primo match ammo; I was shooting Winchester White Box stuff from Wal*Mart and he was shooting bulk reloads. We eventually moved to shooting at 25 yard targets, sometimes offhand, sometimes two-handed and, if we did our parts, those guns hit where we wanted them to.
We were both impressed. I might think of getting it tuned up a little to improve the double-action trigger pull.
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Which goes to show you why I recommend revolvers to people who want a defensive handgun. They're pretty much the closest thing to point-and-click that you're going to find in a handgun. If it shot straight when new, it'll generally keep shooting straight unless you take a hammer to the thing, because it's a fixed barrel in a lump of non-moving metal with the sight affixed directly to the barrel, there's nothing that slides or tilts to develop play and throw off the aim.
Revolvers have their own failure modes, of course, if the cylinder registration is off you get the exploding Saturday Night Specials of yore, and usually the double action trigger pull is way harder than it needs to be (especially for guns sold to cops back in the day), but loose patterns ain't one of'em unless the inside of the barrel has so much wear and tear that the bullet just rattles going through it. But that takes a *lot* of rounds for a quality weapon like a S&W.
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