Oct. 25, 2025
Carrying Wheel Guns In A Semi-Auto World
Send us a text Capacity steals the spotlight, but at real defensive distances it’s access, control, and hits that decide outcomes. We sat down with trainer and gunsmith Brian Eastridge to unpack why a well-set-up revolver can still be the smartest choice for concealed carry and home defense. From pocket-carried snubs that deliver a sub-second covered draw to three-inch “gunfighter” barrels with full-length ejector rods, Brian explains how wheel guns solve everyday concealment and deployment p...
Capacity steals the spotlight, but at real defensive distances it’s access, control, and hits that decide outcomes. We sat down with trainer and gunsmith Brian Eastridge to unpack why a well-set-up revolver can still be the smartest choice for concealed carry and home defense. From pocket-carried snubs that deliver a sub-second covered draw to three-inch “gunfighter” barrels with full-length ejector rods, Brian explains how wheel guns solve everyday concealment and deployment problems autos often complicate.
We dig into caliber and recoil management with a clear recommendation: .38 Special for small and medium frames. You’ll hear why standard-pressure loads in sub-3-inch barrels outperform “hotter” options, how wadcutters shine in snubs, and why .357 Magnum in light revolvers punishes more than it pays. We also get practical about fit and ergonomics, comparing J, K, L, and N frames and highlighting the grip modularity that lets revolvers truly change trigger reach and control. On the setup front, Brian makes a strong case for double-action-only carry guns, dehorned or enclosed hammers, and keeping triggers honest to avoid snags, negligent discharges, and legal headaches.
Training takes center stage with proven drills: Justin Dial’s Five-Yard Roundup, skip-loading for a smooth trigger roll, and the Super Snubby Test on a B8 to balance speed and precision. We talk pocket holsters, covered low ready, and why the most reliable reload might be a second revolver when stakes are high and time is short. Throughout, the message stays simple and serious: accuracy ends fights. If your wardrobe, environment, or comfort level demands deep concealment with fast, discreet access, a thoughtfully chosen .38 Special revolver may be the most modern move you can make.
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00:00 - Welcome And Guest Introduction
01:03 - Brian’s Background And Projects
05:18 - Are Revolvers Still Viable For CCW
09:05 - Industry Misconceptions And Sales Pitfalls
12:34 - Frame Sizes, Fit, And Grip Options
16:24 - Caliber Choices And .38 Special Advice
19:36 - Barrel Lengths, Ejector Rods, And Snubs
23:58 - Pocket Carry And Covered Low Ready
28:10 - Capacity, Reloads, And Carrying Two
32:59 - Hammerless And DAO For Defense
38:38 - Triggers, Liability, And Safe Setup
42:53 - Single Action Myths And Exceptions
46:50 - Drills For Accuracy And Control
52:18 - Super Snubby Test And Standards
55:58 - Accuracy Over Speed And Target Zones
59:48 - How To Reach Brian And Resources
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast, season one, episode four.
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Today, David and I will be talking with Brian Eastridge, the Eastridge Training and Consultant LLC.
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Our topic for today's podcast will be revolvers.
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Are they still a valid conceal theory weapon for conceal theory in the rise of semi-automatics?
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So sit back, enjoy, and listen to today's podcast, and here we go.
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast.
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I'm your host, Brian, and uh we have David here.
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And we've got a guest today that uh a topic that some people say is a little outdated for concealed carriers with the uh advent of semi-automatics.
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Uh Brian Eastridge, he's here to join us and talk to us about revolvers and are they still valid for the concealed carrier?
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How are you doing, Brian?
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Doing great.
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Thanks.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Uh so who is Brian Eastridge and what do you do?
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Well, I wear a number of hats.
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Um let's see.
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I guess I the main gig I have is uh I'm co-owner of EDC Belt Company.
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So we make a concealed carry belt.
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It's kind of purpose-built for the armed citizen.
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Uh, you know, it's it's reinforced where it needs to be and it's uh nice and comfy where it uh should be.
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So that was a project of mine that was born out of years of wearing a Sam Brown duty belt and chronic sciatica and all those things.
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And I figured out uh through after a vacation that it really wasn't my duty belt that was causing all those problems.
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It was uh it was a uh particular concealed carry belt.
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So uh I started that in 2019.
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Uh sell them through our website, through uh langdontactical.com.
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Ernest and Amy sell them, and then uh Concealed Carry Inc.
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sells them as well.
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So yeah, that's kind of my main gig.
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And then I have another LLC, it's Eastridge Training and Consulting.
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I do some firearms industry consulting at times.
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Uh do some open enrollment training, very little anymore.
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I just don't have time.
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Uh I do enjoy it, but uh the last couple years I've I've just haven't had the time to do it.
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So I mainly teach at like conference type stuff, and then I'll do one or two open enrollments a year, but teaching at like the Guardian Nation conference, uh, and then the Pat Rogers Memorial Revolver Roundup at Gunsight.
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I teach there every year, and yeah, that's a fun one if you get a chance.
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I think there's like five or six spots left for that this year.
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Wow and it's it's in November, it's the weekend before Thanksgiving, and uh it's a great hang.
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And it's just learn a lot of revolver history and talk to some armed professionals that have carried them and how they train with them that whole nine yards.
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And then I have the off-duty on-duty podcast, and uh this time of year that one kind of slows down because this is kind of the busy season through about December.
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So I try to get one out a month.
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Sometimes I get one out every two weeks.
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Um a lot of good guests on there.
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Everybody from Rob Latham to Haney McMood to Gerald Bulky's been on a bunch, and Eric Gellhouse, some other guys that um uh Lee Weams has been on a couple of times, our mutual buddy.
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And that's that's kind of it.
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Now that I've retired from law enforcement, I seem to be busier than I ever was when I was a cop.
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So yeah, always works out like that.
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Everybody told me that, and I was like, nah, I'm gonna work like two, three days a week, and then man, my phone started ringing and it hadn't stopped.
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So yeah, I I like your podcast, uh, on duty, off-duty, because you incorporate the view from both worlds, uh, the law enforcement perspective and then the concealed carrier's perspective.
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So uh I really like that, and I think I got David uh attached uh in love with it also, uh recommended it to him and uh uh a good one.
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Uh like like what you do on that.
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Well, it was when that was hashed, you know, the producers and I talked about it, and they said, we want you to do the cop and concealed carrier perspective.
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And I said, I can sum that up in like two sentences, like you know, citizens aren't under any obligation to put handcuffs on anybody.
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Right.
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Ta-da, done, you know, and it's like, no, come on.
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But anyway, that was and I that's see, that's been going I was two years in July.
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So remember it was two or three, so yeah, two years ago, July.
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So all right.
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Well, we'll go ahead and jump into some of our topic questions that we have here.
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Um one thing I get uh people coming to a lot of the classes that I teach is a lot of people bring for the favorite is the semi-automatic pistol.
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I get one of the favorite multiple revolver and things like that.
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Um I think revolvers still have a valid primary uh concern for the concealed carrier as a primary weapon to carry.
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And there are some issues that with the revolver that you know gender and age and stuff like that, I know play a part in, but uh uh are are revolvers still valid for CCW in the world of semi-automatics.
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Under some circumstances, I think they're they kind of pay an advantage.
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Right.
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Um but I I think they're a little more I won't say neat, I don't want to say niche, but they they kind of fit two things.
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For carrying them every day, they're kind of niche.
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For a fire extinguisher at home, yeah, they fit they fit that role so well.
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Right.
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Uh, and that's that's really where I think they they live until you get to a certain point in training and understanding of methodologies that that that you can really take an advantage from them.
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Right.
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Yeah, I know one of the things that I see and with the industry, uh, I'll see a lot of the elderly that will come to classes and the gun shops or pawn shops, you know.
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Hey, you you're just looking for something to throw in a purse or a knife stand and a revolver simply just press the trigger or pull the trigger, as they usually say.
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But uh people come that uh have a problem with that 12-pound trigger press on the double action, and you don't really want them to carry or present it in a single action mode unless you know they really know what to do and because of the potential for negative discharge.
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So that's one of my concerns with the I don't want to cover the gun industry as a whole, but you know, for the ones that are looking to kind of push off stuff that don't really invest the time into getting the gun to the carrier for the person that's wanting to buy it.
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Um but I've also had some issues with some of the I won't name the brand, but uh some of the semi-autos that have group safety for um elderly people that were they just ripped the gun hard enough to deactivate the safety fire semi-automatic.
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So it's kind of a I think it's a double-edged sword, but um I think you can feel uh revolvers are a good option.
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Uh definitely for a uh backup if you decide you want to carry a backup, uh, and then for the home defense, I think that it really fits in well with them.
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Yeah, and I I think the industry as a whole, there are very few um like point of sale.
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I the you go above that to distributor level, they they're not dealing with the customer.
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You go above that to the the the manufacturers, they have a pretty good understanding of like what makes revolvers great.
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Um unfortunately, revolvers were born out of a time when skilled labor was cheap and engineering was expensive, and now that role has kind of flipped.
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Um, where you know the engineering side of the house, you know, solid works, man.
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That that's the program everybody's using to design stuff nowadays, and it's a lot more attainable than it was in 1909 and prior.
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Right.
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Uh, but but skilled labor in that era was cheap, you know.
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I I have a real love for pre-1939 revolvers, and they're works of art, but somebody was making uh you know a dollar an hour to make to build those, you know, or 50 cents an hour.
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Right, those days are gone.
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Uh so but your end gun shop salespeople don't really have a good idea uh because let's face it, the people that are working those roles, unless it's you know a part-time gig or you know, somebody that's older, retired, wants a job, they're typically not very high-paying jobs, and they're typically staffed by people that grew up with the Glock 19.
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Right.
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And and that's not a that's not a knock at that that generation or that that uh end user.
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And there are some exceptions to that.
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I mean, there are exceptions to everything.
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Uh, but a lot of you know, a lot of the younger generation now you hand them a revolver and they look at it like a Rubik's Cube.
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Um and I'm actually kind of in the young category for being somebody that that has a pretty deep understanding of revolvers.
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Um so that's that's kind of my two cents as to why that those wires get crossed up.
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And and I've had I've had some really highly respected instructors that are older than me that you know, I say, Hey, hey, you got any revolvers?
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Do you want to have a wheel gun day?
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I don't I don't really understand revolvers, never shot them.
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Right, you know, and these are people in their 50s, and it's like, oh man, and unless you were in law enforcement, yeah, the semi-auto pistol, I mean, even the military adopted it back in the the teens.
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So so it's uh the LE world was slow to get on the auto bus, but you know, that's been like the agency I worked for transitioned to autos in 1990, you know.
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1990 was well quite a long time ago now.
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Yeah.
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So thirty thirty some years ago.
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Yeah.
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And something too, people you know, understanding revolvers are the different frame sizes, you know, like the J frame, the L frame, the N frame, and stuff, and just you know, what's the difference in them?
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Because you know, someone like me with the or a person with a large hand, a J frame revolver is can be a little bit of a challenge to handle uh compared to the N-frame and K and uh L frame models.
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Yeah, but the benefit you have is a wide variety of stock options, right?
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I'm not talking about SP 500.
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I'm like the actual stocks on the gun, right?
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The grips.
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Um you know, you can tailor a revolver way, way more than you can tailor a semi-auto.
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A semi-auto, you know, you're you've got the options of burn it with a soldering iron or slap tape on it, right?
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Yeah.
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Um some of the newer modern semi-autos, they like the HK VP9 has a lot of modularity to it, but even that degree of modularity doesn't really change the reach to the trigger, which is the critical one.
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Right.
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Um and J-frames, to me, they fit they fit a really specific role, and uh and it's one that most people in training will not explore because uh let's face it, there's only maybe 10, 15,000 people in the whole United States that quote go take training above you know something very basic.
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So David, you want to ask the next question?
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Yes, sir.
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Can you all hear me all right?
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Yeah.
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All right, Brian.
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So with all the many different calibers out there for revolvers, um, I know a lot of people are using them now for hunting and many different different areas of of the firearms world.
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Which one would you recommend?
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Or what do you like, or maybe a few of them?
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Well, um, for small and medium frame revolvers, if you're gonna buy a revolver today, just buy a 38 special.
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Um, there's no need to shoot 357 Magnum unless you're hunting bears or something, you know.
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I mean, it 357 is just punishing.
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Uh 38 special, you can practice with a lighter downloaded cartridge.
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You can carry a plus P.
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But if you're gonna get a barrel length below uh like three inches, just get standard velocity 38 special.
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There's really no benefit going anything hotter than that if you're going below three inch barrels.
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But 38 to me is probably the most versatile that's out there, and that's mainly because you have a wide variety.
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You can go a very light bullet very fast with very low recoil, or you can go a medium bullet with medium recoil, or you can go a really heavy bullet and hurt yourself.
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I mean, it's just and all points in between.
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Um ammunition-wise, 38 special is probably the most affordable and it's the easiest to find versus you know 44 mag, 44 special, 32 HR, stuff like that.
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Um but yeah, 38 special, and and I tell people if you've got if you've got an interest in revolvers, they made something like 12 million K-frame model tens and MPs, which is your you know, medium frame, K-frame, Smith and Wesson specifically.
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Um they've made like a they made them since 1899.
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They're in ever like there's a used one in every gun shop in America.
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They can typically be had for 500 or less dollars.
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And just if that's what you want to learn, then you know, Model 64, Model 10, uh, Model 13s or 357 mag chambered.
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The reason I discourage people from going and jumping in the 357 mag pool is if you go to your local gun shop and the salesman that looks at a revolver like a Rubik's Cube sees 357 Magnum on the side, what ammunition is he gonna try to sell you?
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357 mag, right?
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And you're gonna shoot it six times and go, I'm never touching that again.
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Versus if you say, I want a 38 special, and the salesman says, Oh, well, here's a 357 mag, and you can shoot either one.
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Well, now you you're talking to somebody that's at least somewhat informed.
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But yeah, I really recommend get a medium frame 38 special and and invest the time there.
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Learn learn it there, and uh you can you can go smaller or larger from there, right?
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Make sense?
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Yes, sir.
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And that kind of leads me to I guess when you mentioned uh the different sizes um as far as the barrel length.
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Uh I know I've seen snub nose up to eight inches, and there may be even some bigger.
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not as familiar with revolvers as probably you are.
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But do you recommend one size in particular?
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Are there different situations where one size might be better?
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Um your thoughts on that?
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Yeah, so for the quasi-arm professional, a three-inch or a three and a half inch barrel, that is like the gunfighter length, right?
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It's uh I've got like five three-inch model tens and some in-frame 27s that are three and a half inch.
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Because they're the perfect balance and you get a full-length ejector rod.
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And people are like, what do you mean by that?
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Well, if you go to a snub, the rod will not is not long enough to fully extract the cartridges.
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So a three-inch gun, you can you can fully unseat the the spent cartridges, um, which is important if you're gonna carry that uh in a quasi-professional manner.
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Um the pocket snub is is one of my favorites.
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Um got a couple of friends that that's that's saved their bacon.
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Um and the ability, as my good friend Daryl Bulkey has has kind of coined a term, with a snub revolver in a pocket holster, you know, on your strong side, you can casually stand there and not alarm anybody and have your hand fully in a firing grip on a on a gun that you can deliver in under a second.
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And uh, you may have seen the videos.
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Daryl and me and a guy named Rett Niemier, we've all we've all demoed that.
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And uh the funny part of that is you know, for the semi-auto community that spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get below a subsecond draw to first shot, uh, you know, with moving pieces and all that, it's like we can throw a sucker punch from the pocket and be there in about a half second.
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And I'm not saying that's a great primary role, but uh Daryl Coined it is covered low ready.
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So it's everything's concealed and covered, but I'm I'm I'm ready to act.
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And it doesn't look socially offensive to people if you're standing there with your hand in your pocket.
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So uh I think that's a really valid method.
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And for that, you need that sub that two inch or less barrel, um, and generally a pretty light revolver, uh, which are not the most pleasant to shoot.
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But fortunately, in that format, what seems to be the best functioning ammo is either your lead semi-wide cutter at standard velocity or your 148 grain target wide cutter.
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And there's some really good companies out there that are making very consistent ammo that's loaded just a touch above what match ammo would be loaded for.
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Uh, like Curtis Shipley at GA Arms makes a wide cutter that'll run 750 feet per second out of an inch and seven eighths inch uh Smith and Wesson J frame.
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And that that round is purpose built as a defensive round.
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Um and it everything we see, it flat works.
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It's like it it's solid.
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Um and you can if you're a reloader, you can kind of mimic that and download it a little bit and be easier on your wrists and and everything else.
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So that's kind of the two barrel links I recommend.
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But like I said, if you're just starting out on a revolver, a four-inch old, I call them the old cop service guns, a four a four-inch Model 10 64, 65, uh Ruger GP, something like that.
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Um, I mean they're they're still reasonably affordable and and a four-inch barrel you can do just about anything with.
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Yeah, I think that uh revolvers, uh if you do carry four concealed, you know, it takes a lot more watching, you know, situational awareness, in my opinion, is that you know coming from the looking back at my military career whenever I was in uh M16A1, which was a full automatic version, and then they decided they were gonna go to the three-round version of model and get rid of the full auto to get rid of the in the atmosphere of the semi-auto and the revolver topics that revolvers you have to be more intense specific on your target, it takes a little bit more practice with it, but it eliminates that I've got 15 rounds.
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I'm just gonna pull the trigger and spring print, as we used to call it in military.
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I just think the the revolver, you know, if you practice with it, uh you can actually reload fairly quickly with the speed loader or stream loader.
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Yeah, your semi-auto is gonna load a little bit more, you're gonna have more rounds, but it's gonna make you more intent on focusing on your uh sight picture and target than just uh yanking on that trigger in a stress situation and then loading 15 rounds that will hit who knows where.
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What uh you have any thoughts on on that?
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Yeah, if you if you look at the armed citizen defense side, what do we constantly hear?
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The typical defensive shooting is what?
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Three rounds, three yards and three seconds, right?
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That's about by the time by the time the second, you know, 1000, 2000, pretty much the victor is determined in that.
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So capacity in that particular instance to me gives you can give a little bit of that for the ability to rapidly deploy it, and the the ability to consistently rapidly deploy it.
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Um one of the things I like to do, and I I got this from Wayne Dobbs, is when I'm briefing a class, I I have everybody, you know, look, hey, look around at everybody.
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We are at pistol gun fight distance, just a little over an arm's length, right?
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Yeah.
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For the for the the typical concealed carry role.
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Like pistol fight distance is conversation distance.
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So a revolver can really be deployed quickly in that uh without having to move cover garments and and um do a whole lot else.
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You can deploy it pretty rapidly.
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Um so that for me is where it takes a huge benefit.
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And I have the absolute fastest revolver reload that that you can time, and it's called haul another revolver out and don't worry about reloading the first one.
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Um and that's another place that revolvers kind of hold a special meaning to me is uh there is no magazine.
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So well, there is technically, but um but as far as capacity, get another revolver and the ability to carry two, say one in each front pocket, or one in a jacket pocket and one in a pants pocket.
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Um you have some uh you know, you have some flexibility there to uh and an added layer of safety with that longer, heavier trigger pull.
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It's pretty deliberate to make one of those go off.
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So having two of them on your person is a little even I won't say less to manage, but it's easier to manage than most people would think.
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And I have a question go along with what you just said, Brian.
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Um you talked about carrying two revolvers.
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So would you think that that would be a better way to go than maybe carrying a revolver and speed loaders?
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Um, I guess if so, then you know, kind of your thoughts on that.
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So if if I'm going to let's say I'm going to a place that's uh maybe capacity unfriendly, a state that even with Liosa, there might be some question as to well, can I have a 10-round magazine or an eight-round magazine or uh this or that you know, or I'm uh I'm going somewhere that my apparel will not allow me to put on a semi-auto pistol and conceal it very well, and I know you're gonna get hate mail.
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Well, buy this holster and you can do whatever.
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Um my response to that is okay, gunfighter, you do you.
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Uh, but if I've got to wear like a sport jacket, something like that, yeah, it's I can okay, I can strong side conceal that fairly well.
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But what happens when my split sport jacket, my Colt Commander, pops out of the back of it?
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Does that offend people that are around you and maybe get you asked to leave wherever you're right?
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So if I can drop a revolver in a pocket and then drop another revolver in a jacket pocket, right?
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It's pretty pretty invisible, uh, especially with a compact revolver.
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And then if the need arises for a reload, I have another delivery system for it.
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And if I've got a speed strip or two, I mean I'm sorry, if you're if you're hauling two revolvers out, you have probably selected where your life is taking you poorly, right?
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If you're going to revolver number two, you might you might want to think about what restaurants you're going to eat at or something.
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Like, right, is it really worth it?
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But uh, but typically when I carry one, I'll carry uh like I've got an older model 13 and an appendix rig from JM, and then I'll carry a J-frame in my pocket or some type of snub in my pocket, a Ruger LCR.
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And then I've generally got a speed strip, an eight-round speed strip that's spaced 246, so I can reload either gun if I needed to.
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Now, granted, that's pretty that's a pretty niche thing.
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That's a pretty low priority, or I won't say low priority, but low um low in the law of averages.
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But uh and generally, if I can appendix carry a revolver, I could probably appendix carry an auto.
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But I still like to have a revolver in the pocket because man, lifting your shirt up and hauling a semi-auto out kind of gets people's attention versus man, I may not need to use this, but at least I got my hand on it and I'm ready to.
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That's that's to me is where it pays huge dividends.
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So hope I answered that for you.
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Yes, sir.
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Um so another question I've got.
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So with all the uh now you got the hammerless revolvers out there.
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I know it's not necessarily traditional, but um, a lot of people I see are going to those.
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I see them a lot in gun stores.
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What's your thoughts on those?
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