cracker wrote:Wombat wrote:The Savage is a blowback semi with a bolt hold open. The speed is dependent on your coordination between release and trigger, some skill is admittedly required. After a couple of magazines I was getting ten shot 50 meter groups around playing card size just as fast as I could pre 96.
Should I forget my hands on experience and alter my comment in line with "wot some bloke had on his phone"? FFS.
only thing i can get close to a semi speedwise is a browning trombone off the hip... completely pointless other then smiles value
dont get too hung up on how fast, doesnt really matter
even mag dumping a semi auto 22lr kinda just results in a shotgun pattern with me anyway
The revolver gets closest to gas operated semi autos and is still in a relatively stable firing position, The heaviness of the double action trigger aka the fact your finger is doing all the work in cycling the action means they do run slower than 10/22 etc.
The thingis Austalia has an entire generation now who never had a chance to use S/A and a couple of older generations forgetting just how much they wished they still had them
No one claims they will outshoot other actions at various ranges. The higher the degree of accuracy or mutliplicity of targets at range, the more the rigid slower actions have a chance to catch up as you can work them while you are re-acquiring. Thats beginner obvious.
But the 10/22 isn't one of the most popular 22's ever made because it has no purpose. And all the other myriad S/A 22LR would not exist if they didn't do somethings much better than any other actions in the calibre. And Cat C workers would be handing their guns in or not bothering with all the BS of getting Cat C if something else did the same job. Thats also beginner obvious.
Personally I think having used a lot of them, the revolver comes close but I started deleting my own posts on its speed as it can be fodder or antis or upset people from states who can't have them. I also dont want to go into just what you can with a semi-auto 22LR in close for the same reasons and also because it would upset all the safety concious millenials. You can fire a load of buckshot and be satsfied if half the pellets pattern on an animal and who knows or care if the rest wound the one next to it, but you direct 4-5 rounds of 22LR into one animal rapid fire it suddenly becomes unethical. :
But again no point ruining my own hobby or an entire weapon category just for purpose of sounding cool on a web forum. Im bowing out. Good luck to the OP hope you review it if you get a chance.