Gun Digest’s Handgun Ammo & Calibers Concealed Carry eShort: Learn the most effective handgun calibers & pistol ammo choices for the self-defense revolver.
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In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham explains the best calibers and handgun ammo choices for the concealed carry revolver.
Grant Cunningham
Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.
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Gun Digest’s Handgun Ammo & Calibers Concealed Carry eShort - Grant Cunningham
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Concealed Carry: Handgun Ammo & Calibers
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This is just a small sampling of the myriad chamberings that have been made for the revolver, from the .22 Long Rifle to the .44 Magnum. There are even larger and more powerful cartridges available for the adventurous!
The double-action revolver has been produced in an astonishing variety of calibers and chamberings over its history. Some calibers such as the large rimfires popular in the ‘old west’ have disappeared completely, but you’ll find many of the centerfire chamberings are still being sold. There is a cartridge and revolver combination for virtually any use, though there are sometimes ‘good’ and ‘better’ choices for any particular application.
You can find technical information about any cartridge, but just as important as dry specifications are the impressions of those who have actually used the round. With that, here are my personal opinions about each of the cartridges currently (or commonly) chambered in factory revolvers.
These are borne of my experience as a shooter, gunsmith, handloader, hunter, competitor, and self-defense instructor. I have no doubt that someone, somewhere could find some reason to disagree with each and every one. That’s true of any aspect of shooting. It’s been said that if you ask any two shooters about a caliber you’ll get three opinions, which leads me to opine that we should append ‘anything to do with guns’ to the list of topics which should never be discussed at the dinner table!
The .22 Long Rifle
This rimfire cartridge was introduced in 1887 and today is said to be the single most popular cartridge in the world. There were in fact many different .22 rimfire cartridges produced, but it was the Long Rifle which proved to have the staying power.
Revolvers in the ‘twenty-two’ often have increased capacities over their centerfire cousins, and it’s not unusual to find medium-framed revolvers carrying nine rounds of the rimfire cartridge versus six of the more powerful chamberings.
If you’re a handgun hunter these revolvers make the taking of small game a challenging endeavor. Every revolver owner should have at least one that shoots the .22LR, if for no other reason than they’re just fun to shoot!
Though not as common today, at one time you could find any given revolver model chambered in both a centerfire cartridge and in the .22LR. The selection of such models today is slim and getting slimmer, but even though you may not find an exact equivalent you can still find many popular revolvers for this round. Having a revolver chambered for the .22LR makes a great understudy for the larger caliber version, allowing economical practice without needing to endure recoil.
An important safety reminder: many people, myself included, have no problem shooting a .22LR rifle without hearing protection. Such a small cartridge fired from a long barrel doesn’t have a large