Revolvers have remained popular to the present day in many areas, although in the military and law enforcement they have largely been supplanted by magazine-fed semi-automatic pistols such as the Colt M1911, especially in circumstances where reload time and higher cartridge capacity are deemed important.

Revolvers chambered in. 460 S & W Magnum can usually accept. 454 Casull and. 45 Colt rounds as well ( in the same way that a. 475 Linebaugh revolver can take. 480 Ruger ), a useful cost-saving feature that can increase the appeal of the. 460 over the. 480 for some shooters, especially for practice sessions where full-power rounds are not necessary.

Revolvers have a number of firing chambers or " charge holes " in a revolving cylinder ; each chamber in the cylinder is loaded with a single cartridge.

Revolvers are very common among handgun hunters because revolver cartridges are usually more powerful than similar caliber semi-automatic pistol cartridges ( which are designed for self-defense ) and the strength, simplicity and durability of the revolver design is well-suited to outdoor use.

" Revolvers and auto-loading pistols are produced in a wide variety of sizes, with autoloaders generally categorized as one of four sizes: full-size, compact, sub-compact and ultra-compact.

Revolvers store spent casings in the chamber, but may emit a stream of hot gasses and possible fine particulate debris laterally from the interface between the revolving chamber and the gun barrel.

Revolvers further reduced this to only needing a pre-prepared magazine using the same barrel and ignitions.

Revolvers, both rifles and pistols, tend to spray fragments of metal from the front of the cylinder.

Revolvers are most often handguns, but other weapons may also have a revolving chamber.

Revolvers have been largely replaced by semi-automatic pistols in military and law enforcement applications.

Revolvers still remain popular in the role of back-up and off-duty guns among American law enforcement officers and security guards.

Revolvers do not suffer from this disadvantage.

Revolvers proliferated largely due to Colt's ability as a salesman.

Revolvers have been made to work with cartridges that were designed for use in semi-automatic pistols.

Revolvers are most often handguns, however examples of rifles and shotguns have been made.

Beginning in 1848, more contracts followed for what is today known as the Colt Dragoon Revolvers.

* Revolvers of. 38 caliber or larger

For that reason, the. 45 Artillery SAA Revolvers were used successfully by front troops in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War.

Most Bisley Standard Model Revolvers which were shipped to a United States address were not used for target shooting but for self-defense because the grip and hammer were ideal for fast shooting.

Revolvers in. 357 Magnum caliber have the significant advantage of also being able to fire. 38 Special ammunition, with its lower cost, recoil, noise, and muzzle flash.

* Pinfire Revolvers Explained by Gerard Henrotin ( H & L Publishing / HLebooks. com-2010 )

Some S & W model 29s were rebuilt by the AAI Corporation to make the Quiet Special Purpose Revolvers ( QSPR ).

* Colt New Army / Navy Revolvers ( 1882 to 1903 )

Revolvers have been produced in. 22 Hornet by Taurus, Magnum Research, and others.

Revolvers ( Finnish: Revolveri ) are firearms with a total length of less than 840 mm and a barrel length of less than 400 mm, that use centerfire cartridges loaded in a spinning cylinder.

Revolvers are also in this category.

Revolvers chambered in. 410 shotgun are usually chambered for the. 45 Colt such as the Taurus Judge and the Smith & Wesson Governor.

This same serial numbering convention used on the Kerr was used on the Adams Revolver ( made by the London Armoury Company, among others ), and also is seen on Samuel Colt's percussion revolvers of all models, where the serial number of each revolver ( stamped on various places on the Colt revolver ) was stamped on the cylinder following the words " COLTS PATENT No. " On the Kerr Revolvers, as with the Adams and Colts, these numbers are sequential and are serial numbers and not the patent number.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

It especially bothered the older hands.

One especially bad detonation shook Lifeboat No. 3 which trembled violently in the davits.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Finally, the theatrical ( and perversely erotic ) notions of dressing up, cosmetics, disguise, and especially change of costume ( or singularity of costume, as with Cipolla ), are characteristically associated with the catastrophes of Mann's stories.

Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.

that is, about one-half of one per cent, which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me, especially in an institution which professes to be `` national ''.

He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

The average Democratic politician, especially in the country districts, is hungry for the spoils of office.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.