Revolver ID?

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David,

I am sure you are a fine marksman (I will up my free shot bet to you to $101) but these weapons were made to be used by everyone. Having seen around 500 people in the same controlled circumstances learning to use them my comments are unchanged. I am sure the average Canadian 20 year old is no better natural marksman than an Australian, Zulu or Mongolian 20 year old.

The average soldier gets maybe 15 rounds to learn the weapon and probably never sees one fired again in service. Those whose job has pistols as a possible part of their combat equipment get one or two days a year on the pistol range (unless they are training for or actually on deployment).

Add to this the fact you are not firing at a motionless bit of cardboard, there is all the excitement, fear, colour and movement which goes with using a pistol in action, I reckon there would have been hundreds of thousands-millions?- of "aimed" rounds coming from S&W (and any other make) pistol that arrived anywhere but the intended target.