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First, a good contextual reality check:

fm2 wrote: This happened outside an amusement park. Many have metal detectors, Remember they have security there to protect you. So how well armed would you be as you exited the park? Empty hands or improvised weapons is where you would start, so who's ready to go wading in now? Now if you had re-armed when you got in your car, like you should, and were rolling by then you might be more effective.

The likelihood of a CHLee (or is that CHLer?) loitering near the entrance of the amusement park as described, while armed with a handgun (or anything remotely effective), is vanishingly small. The revolver vs semiautomatic discussion is still interesting, however.

jbirds1210 wrote: There is NO disadvantage to the wheelgun if it is in the proper hands.

Well said. However, I would expect that developing the skill (proper hands) may be more costly, in both time and money, with the revolver than the semiautomatic handgun. Maybe HV or other revolver competitors can affirm or refute this.

At first I was surprised to see the IDPA classification scoring brackets have the revolver divisions consistently trailing SSP by (only!) 2-4 seconds, but since only three classification strings exceed 6 rounds, it is somewhat understandable.

mr.72 wrote: I certainly am not trying to denigrate anyone. However I think in any scenario, there is no advantage to running out of ammo and being forced to reload in order to keep shooting if the threat persists, no matter how perfectly trained you are at such a combat reload. It's always faster to just keep shooting than it is to reload, is it not?

Well said.

mr.72 wrote:The question is, are you proficient at reloading a revolver in a hurry while you are on the ground having the snot kicked out of you by a half a dozen hoods?

Quantity does have a certain quality of its own, whether in magazine/cylinder capacity or the size of a crew or posse. However . . .

seamusTX wrote:On another level, my opinion is that larger magazines encourage a certain amount of spray-and-pray mentality among some shooters.

The NYPD is Exhibit A for this phenomenon; another reason to avoid the Cesspool-on-Hudson. (I am not implying that another reason was necessary, but this reason is almost good enough by itself.)

Competition like IDPA can help expose the ineffectiveness of spray-and-pray and impart a measure of discipline.