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Very generally speaking, a revolver has a revolving cylinder that rotates in order to bring a new round in line with the barrel. A pistol has a single chamber, and fresh rounds are fed into the chamber from a magazine. That is the more recent and slang use of those words. Revolvers and magazine fed semi-automatics are both pistols.
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What is the difference between a pistol and revolver?
A revolver has a rotating chamber that houses the bullets a pistol has a "clip" or "magazine"
What is the difference between pistal and revolver?
The difference is that a pistol has a magazine and a revolver has a rotating cylinder that has individual chambers to shoot
Is there a difference between a pistol and handghun?
Some people distinguish between pistols and revolvers. Both are handguns, but revolvers may not be pistols. A pistol would be an automatic, a single shot, a derringer type pistol, etc- but a revolver must have a cylinder holding the cartridges that revolves.
What is louder 380 pistol or 38 special smith and Wesson?
A revolver is louder than a pistol due to the barrel-cylinder gap that is located between the cylinder face and forcing cone of a revolver.
Is a Rimmed Cartridges are used in a Revolver or Pistol?
revolver
What is the difference between a pistol and a gun?
A "gun" generically refers to any firearm. A "pistol" generally refers to any hand gun. Minor addition: "Pistol" is used colloquially used to refer to any handgun, but technically, it refers to a semi-auto handgun as opposed to a revolver.
What is the decibel of a pistol firing?
Obviously, it will depend on the caliber of pistol, and the distance between you and the pistol. A person firing a .357 Magnum revolver would be exposed to ABOUT 140 dB.
Is a revolver stronger than a pistol?
It's the round which makes the difference, not the pistol. A .45 automatic pistol is going to be more powerful than a .38 revolver, for example. There are revolvers chambered in cartridges such as the .454 Casull and .500 S&W Magnum, which aren't available in any automatic pistols, but it's still ultimately the round which matters, and not whether it's an automatic or revolver.
What is difference between shotgun and revolver mechanism?
a shotgun is pump action and a revolver "revovles" the ammo.
Which would jam faster a regular pistol or a revolver?
A semi-auto pistol would be more prone to malfunction than a revolver.
What is the difference between a 38 special revolver and aregular revolver?
38 special is only a revolver caliber. that's like saying a 44 magnum revolver or a 500 special revolver. a revolver is a revolver
Why is the revolver pistol important?
the revolver allows multiple shots with reloading,that can be handy.
