Is there a prettier class of gun than the revolver? They may

>>31849692
I love my Schofield. I can't decide if I should try to get a second one for a matching set, or get an SAA.

Top break revolvers are sexy af.

Too bad they're also weak frames that limit you to antiquated rounds. Just imagine something the size of an Iver Johnson packing 6 rounds of .327 Fed.

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Deagle Brand Deagles are incredibly sexy guns IMO.

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>>31850436
get a matching set and be a slick gunner in the wild west

>>31849692
No, there's not.

I'm shopping for my first gun now, and I'm planning to get a Rock Island Armory M200.

Anyone know why revolvers are so goddamn expensive? Why can you get a Cobra or Hipoint for $150, but no revolver for any less than $250? (Heritage Arms .22s don't count)

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>>31850486
The expense though. It's hard to justify dropping $1K+ on a gun that will rarely ever be fired. Not when there are other things I need to do, like upgrade my conputer, or buy an AR and FAL before the post Hillary election panic prices set in.

>>31850547

>don't even get to see the slide go back entirely and see the casing eject

This gif is a fucking cock tease.

>>31850547
It's literally a ring of fire.

>>31850454
they make schofields in 38 special

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>>31849692
Maybe if it's a suppressed bullpup shotgun revolver

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>>31849692
Ahem

>>31850534
get a Nagant revolver

>>31852259
I looked in to those. The prices seem to have gone up recently, and the ammo would be more expensive. I set $200 as my upper limit when I started shopping, I'm pushing it already with that M200 for $240 from a local store

>>31850454
>top breaks being structurally weak

See, I always hear this, but I struggle to reconcile it with things like the Thompson Contender, which is a top break that can handle calibers up to the kind used to bring down big game.

Are there any engineers/gunsmiths around who could elaborate on why some of the same design principles couldn't be applied to make a modern top break revolver?

Also, on a similar note, why has no other revolver adopted the gas seal that the Nagant has? The tradeoffs are miniscule compared to a safer gun with better velocities due to the elimination of the cylinder gap.

>>31852243
>How you want your hair cut?
>Just cut the top of my head off senpai.

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>>31849692

>>31850534
>Anyone know why revolvers are so goddamn expensive?

Have you ever looked at the action of a revolver under its side plate? Given that it's much more complex than any semi-auto and has a lot of small parts that might need finishing work by assemblers, they end up being inherently more difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to make than a semi-auto.

All of this shows in the product you get though. If you compare an entry-level government model Colt 1911 to one of its clones by Tisas or RIA, the Colt is not going to be appreciably better (something like a Gold Cup is of course a different matter). By comparison, if you compare an old revolver by Smith or Colt to one of its clones made by the likes of Taurus, RIA, EAA, etc, there is a considerable disparity in terms of both fit and finish as well as function, precisely because making a good revolver is harder and well on its way to becoming a lost art due to their obsolescence. This, along with the points raised in the first paragraph, is why used revolvers by good companies have some of the best resistance to depreciation on the secondary market of all firearms.

TLDR version: With revolvers more than many other guns, you actually get what you pay for and not just a different rollmark. I don't recommend cheaping out unless you're buying your gun with the intention of eventually chucking it in a lake.

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>>31849692
I have a thing for bolt actions.

>>31852176
.38 Special isn't especially high pressure.

>>31852895
Gas seals increase complexity, DA trigger pull, and require a specific case design for maximum efficiency all for a minuscule decrease in energy loss.

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>>31850534
Revolvers are a lot more complex than automatics.

Really, the Armscor isn't awful for a cheap gun, probably better than Taurus.

>>31852259
>anon is looking at a hand-ejector in .38 Special (copy of a Colt)
>you suggest an old piece of shit with half-assed single-action army style ejection, the worst trigger ever, and which only has low powered target loads available here and there
I bet you think the Mosin Nagant is still a great newbie gun too.

>>31852839
You can find them for around $200 on gunbroker sometimes, if you want to.

>>31852895
Break-action single-shots are not like break-action revolvers. Adding a revolving cylinder to the package complicates everything exponentially, and you don't get the bizarre kind of strength that a single-shot break-action gun can exhibit.

>>31852924
Stay mad, the Luger is queen of aesthetics

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>>31853409
>Break-action single-shots are not like break-action revolvers. Adding a revolving cylinder to the package complicates everything exponentially, and you don't get the bizarre kind of strength that a single-shot break-action gun can exhibit.

Honestly I'm intrigued. Do you actually have an example of inferiority?

I make guns. I have not made a break open revolver. I can see a possible extra minor anomaly with chamber indexing (frame straightness), the again I see no major issue regarding materials and machining.

Break open designs deliver some of the most powerful sporting cartridges today, including Nitro class double rifles. The hinge is no issue, there are ways to make it right.

Pic related. I spotted that in another thread some time ago, and I have been excited by it ever since. It's a pure break open design. Very feasible in real life.

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>>31849692

>>31855175
That would be a terrible design. Putting the hinge that far from the cylinder gives the explosion a shitload of mechanical advantage.

>>31855246
And how far you think the hinge is from the chamber with for example Nitro class double rifles? Or with common shotguns with their "thin-walled" chambers?

Listen, you have to make things right. For that you need Education and Experience.

Start today.

>>31855437
Generally not far at all, dumbass.

>>31855561
When you have educated yourself in these things, you will see why it doesn't even matter, kiddo.

Out.

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Revolvers aren't the sexiest class in my opinion, but my pick for sexiest gun happens to be a revolver.

Blued 7" colt Python, walnut grips.

They're gorgeous, and they're action is very tight. Trigger like glass.

Inb4 "walking dead fanboy"
Owned one well before the show immortalized the nickel plated version, which, in my opinion, isn't classy.

>>31855639
>Blued 7" colt Python, walnut grips.
was never made. unlike S&W, Colt did not often offer unique barrel lengths, and the Python, even the Elites off the Custom Shop, had standard barrel lengths. you might take an 8" and cut it down... and lose most of the value, but there'd be your 7" barrel.

>>31855639
I meant 6"

Always overestimating my length.

Have you ever been to /arg/? Do a ctrl+f "Giddy"

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>>31849692
>Is there a prettier class of gun than the revolver?

wheel-lock pistols.

>>31855788
Love it

>>31855437
Shotguns work on really low pressures, hence you can make the material pretty thin in a lot of places.

Safari rifles generally are much less complex mechanically, and have a very solid lock.
If you're gonna try doing this shit, I recommend you study a break-action safari rifle in detail to see what makes the locking strong. Generally, most old break-top revolvers did not lock as positively as those rifles do.

>>31855175
>handguard but no blast shield
>picture of a .44 cartridge but the gun is shaped like a percussion cap revolver

>>31854878
>queen
sure, I'm fine with it having that title

>>31853005
It looks great except for the stamped trigger

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>>31849692
Gotta agree with this Anon >>31855713
Wheellocks are beautiful guns, they may be completely outmoded by modern firearms, but goddamn that A E S T H E T I C.

>>31853013
You know, I was think during the Colt bankruptcy that they should go make to making their snake line of revolvers. They're more expensive to make, but you know people will be lining up to buy them instead of generic overpriced 1911s and ARs that just have the Colt stamp on them.

>>31853324
Also comes in .45lc and .44Russian

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>>31852243

>>31849692
Top break revolvers are either for collectors who enjoy late 19th century smallarms or for autistic anime LARPers who are the gun community's version of
>>31850252
The only exception being, of course, those new russian made ones which are fucking banned from import

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>>31858527
>new
They're like from the late 90's or early 2000's.
The Anderson Wheeler guns are newer.

>>31850252
qt

That Python looks like something from a robocop movie, badass.

>>31857601
Fair enough

>>31859813
Desire to know more intensifies.