With an auto you have to wait for it to cycle. Evidently, this is so slow that companies like Glock & Springfield put lightening cuts in the top of their slides on competition models so there's less mass and the slide can cycle faster. Now to a mere mortal like me any semi-auto has fired and is back in battery ready to fire again before I've recovered and am ready to fire another shot. I've never noticed that my 1911s are slower to cycle than my Springfield XD(M) Competition .45 or my Glock 34 that each have a big hunk of their slides removed as competition guns. In fact, I've yet to hear any 1911 owner complain "you know, the only problem with this gun is it's doesn't shoot fast enough; I need to cut out a big hunk of the the slide to make to cycle faster."
I've been told that theoretically a revolver can be fired faster than an auto. Well, at least if your name is Jerry Miculek, though he seems something of an anomaly. My 9mm revolver (S&W 986) has a titanium cylinder to accommodate such stunningly high rates of fire (lighter weight metal for less mass). Again, doesn't matter much to me, as I cock the hammer manually and fire with a desire for accuracy so we'll never know how fast it could potentially fire.
So which can you fire faster? Or are you a mere mortal like me to whom none of this matters?
I've been told that theoretically a revolver can be fired faster than an auto. Well, at least if your name is Jerry Miculek, though he seems something of an anomaly. My 9mm revolver (S&W 986) has a titanium cylinder to accommodate such stunningly high rates of fire (lighter weight metal for less mass). Again, doesn't matter much to me, as I cock the hammer manually and fire with a desire for accuracy so we'll never know how fast it could potentially fire.
So which can you fire faster? Or are you a mere mortal like me to whom none of this matters?
