Your either getting a wheelgun or a pistol. The wheelgun's are remarkably reliable and are low capacity and difficult to reload. The pistol's can FTF way more frequently. You have to insist upon reliability (=very low FTF%) with pistol's. 1911's that cost more than $500-600 and Glock's are reliable, and their everywhere. FTF rarely happen's to either, though you've got to get quality mag's for the 1911 because the lower quality mag's can cause FTF.
1911's are more difficult to conceal than most revolver's, especially those "pocket rocket's" with .357 chambering/snubby's. Invest in reloader's if you opt for a wheelgun. The worst thing is to get caught unarmed, but after that, its running out of ammo, and reloader's are way more efficient and less likely to result in dropped round's in high stress, over loose ammunition in you're pocket.
Pistol's primary advantage, once you've settled the reliability gap with a reliable model with reliable key part's (including mag's), is capacity. A 1911 in position 1 is seven round's at least (6+1 officers), and 8+1 is common, and all you have to do is hide another 8-rounder somewhere and you've got 17 round's to depend upon if ever SHTF (excuse me
), with reloading a trivial matter compared to wheelgun reloader's/stripper's.
You're small revolver is five shot's. After that, you've got to reload. With adrenaline pumping. Scared. Tense. Racing mind, racing to think about what to do next, if its not to start pulling the trigger again right away. Yike's.
Versus: press the mag release (just drop the empty on the ground/floor!) and pound the next mag home. Your either still loaded (1 still in the chamber), or your open, so your either good to go immediately, or after releasing the slide.
They're are even 1911's with inward-facing slope's around the exterior of the mag well, to ensure that you get it in they're right. I'm not sure Glock has need of that, because there mag's are themselve's designed to find the mag well easily. I'm not sure about the Glock single-stack's though.
Of course Glock's win out over 1911's in capacity, with 17 (+1?) being the new capacity standard for a sidearm. I haven't heard good thing's about double-stack 1911's, so its a fundamental design edge over the 1911, to be wielding a Glock instead of a 1911.
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