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Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/18/14 6:58 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:30:38 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 12/18/14 5:11 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:20:45 -0500, Toad Gigger
wrote:

My brother, former cop, loved the P226 and the decocking feature. He
could chamber a round, decock, add another round to the magazine, and
ready to shoot by pulling the trigger.

This all came about from police who were transitionally from a
revolver to an SA. That is what the "P" means in my KP90.
This will react just like a revolver.

The "P" means police?

I seriously don't understand the rational for DA/SA in semi-auto
pistols. I don't like the typically long and indefinite DA pull to get
to SA. I think when you pull the trigger on a firearm, it should go
bang...immediately, unless you happen to like two stage triggers. I don't.

My revolver is DA unless I pull the hammer back and pull the trigger. I
hardly ever fire it DA. I bought a DA revolver because I prefer the way
the cylinder rolls out for loading and unloading rounds. I never liked
the SA method of pushing the empties out one at a time.

I'm trying to decide on a new trigger for my AR-15. The Colt comes with
a typical mil-spec trigger...too long a pull and too heavy. I'm thinking
3 to 3.5 pounds, single stage, would be to my liking.

This just shows the truth to the 'different strokes for different
folks' idiom. When shooting my revolvers, both DA, I very seldom pull
the hammer back and shoot SA.

I didn't know that single action revolvers required pushing empties
out one at a time. What a pain. Another good reason to stick with DA
revolvers.

Yeah, on a SA revolver, the cylinder does not flip out. There's a "port"
on the right side of the pistol, typically, a little door that flips open
and you turn the cylinder by hand to line up each chamber with the port.
Then you push out the "empty" with a built in ejector rod that sits under
the barrel. The modern variant of the DA revolver, with a flip-out
cylinder, didn't come along until nearly the end of the 19th Century,
long after the Wild West was tamed.

Makes you wonder about all those cowboy westerns in which the gunfighters
quickly reload. Nope.

The gunfighter quickly reloading would have been a Top Break pistol. Th
S&W was well like for that feature. And lots of the Single Action black
powder guns had exchangeable cylinders.