Gotta admit. There are advantages. 
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My choice for revolver would be S&W Mod. 25 - 4’’
one of my mentors shared with me wen you pull it out the perp see’s
the rounds facing them they usually stop acting out
https://www.galcogunleather.com/vhs-4-0-vertical-holster-system-_8_2_1526.html?filters=1
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I haven’t really experimented with speedloaders. So far, my preferred speedloader is the Safariland Comp II. Unfortunately, my favorite carry method for speedloaders isn’t compatible, and I use the HKS speedloaders with it. The design places half of the speedloader on the inside of the belt, with significantly less protrusion for concealment. I don’t think it’s compatible with 5 or 7 shot speedloaders.
Desantis Second Six Speedloader (picture from revolverguy.com):
I’m also curious about a speedloader carrier I saw pictures of that places the speedloaders above the belt line to allow for a similar slim profile and was compatible with the Safariland speedloaders, but I haven’t tracked that down… Sometimes I lose interest in experimenting when I’m happy with what I have.
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The Kimber K6S Da/sa 3 inche is what I carry
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My normal EDC is a Sig P365 with two spare magazines, but if I’m just walking my dog around the neighborhood, I put a Taurus 85-UltraLite in an Uncle Mike’s holster into my back pocket.
I have several wheel-guns (.357 or .44) I carry with me when I’m out in the woods.
I’m in the “There is no right answer” camp when it comes to what someone should carry. It depends greatly on the situation, their skill level, and what they’re comfortable shooting.
Thanks!
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One of my regrets was selling my K6S, hammerless. Personally, would have made the perfect back up/secondary for me, but I find two is heavy for me when on long voyages.
Thinking again about a backup, revolver, lightweight aluminum, maybe snub .357.
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When I was looking at a wheel gun, I thought about 357, however, I wanted good stopping power, so I went with 44mag.
9mm may not compete with 357 but my 10mm does and there is no need to duplicate the 10mm with 357.
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I did a quick survey of .357’s today, and decided I’ll save up for Ruger, LCR, .357. Was a tough decision, but it’ll fit in to my other unique needs just nicely.
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I like mine, R likes to carry it in her purse, when concerned she can stick her hand in her purse, pull the little guy out of it’s holster and use it without having to visibly draw.
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Liking the simplicity, especially “God Forbid”, in a high pressure emergency, DOA has value.
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Returning the favor dear Buddha-In-The-Sun,
Just in case this offers any different “specs” for you and any one whose caliber is listed here:
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I once read a report( (forgive me as I can’t remember where) which stated, under the stress of a defensive encounter, most defenders will probably hit their target about 15% of the time. Though not exact, that means one out of every six shots will hit the intended target. Add to that 30% of the time the defender will be confronted by multiple attackers leaves me wanting for more ammunition than I’m getting in a revolver.
The article left me wondering, where did the other 85% of the bullets end up? 
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Carbon rings in chambers.
There is a condition common to revolvers where shorter cartridges are routinely fired in magnum chambers. Since the case of a 38. special is shorter than that of a .357 magnum, the extra space left in the chamber will commonly build up deposits of very hard to remove carbon in the space left bare by the shorter cartridge. The reason this is bad, is because when a full length cartridge is then placed in the chamber it may still chamber ok, but when it’s fired, the case expansion is restricted at the case mouth by virtue of the build up of carbon, this can, and does, cause over pressure conditions when full house magnums are fired in such a gun.
If you are going to shoot lots of shorter 38 special practice rounds out of your .357 chamber and then go to a full magnum for carry or for any other reason, eventually this condition will happen, If not cleaned out regularly, the carbon build up can be extremely difficult to remove.
I was started out on .38, special / .357 magnum. I have seen this condition in my own guns, and guns ranging from .32, up to .44 mag. Depending on the ammunition used, these rings can build up quickly.
A revolver is as simple as it gets. A hammerless DAO revolver leaves you nothing to mess up when the crisis hits and your brains fall out the bottom of your jeans. Provided you loaded it. But they take care too, just like autos, it’s just different things you need to be aware of.
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The revolver needs to be dependable
my wife’s new Charter Arms ‘‘BOXER’’ failed after 200 target rounds
started shooting ‘‘minute of barn’’ could not keep it on a 50’ slow fire target
as we were sorting it out on the home range it quit fireing all together
4 clicks in a row. its still in the shop at Charter Arms 6 weeks later .
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I like !!! 
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There was a police shooting here last summer, they made a pretty big deal out 19 shoots fired, the perp was hit 4 times. Luckily this was behind a grocery store where there weren’t a lot of people.
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Target rounds? were they lead wadcutters or just lead? That could easily explain some things, especially the accuracy going to heck. Some rounds will lead a barrel badly, and some barrels are more susceptible to leading than others. One sign of a leading barrel is that the accuracy quickly falls off to somewhere between terrible, and “can’t hit the side of a barn from the inside with the door shut”.
One of the advantages to revolvers I don’t often see mentioned, is one of the more significant advantages, that being that a revolver will, the vast majority of the time, cycle and fire what ever fits in the gun. where as many autos are only reliable with carefully selected loadings the gun “likes”. Hand loading for an auto is often twice the work it is for a revolver precisely because reliable cycling can be illusive.
Four clicks in a row on live rounds, especially if the cylinder was turning to a new index each time, speaks to what is, for me, a very rare occurrence, with one notable exception.
Revolvers with safety locks you can use a key to set.
Some have been known to “set themselves” due to recoil, rendering the gun inoperable!
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I test fired one a few weeks ago. 5 rounds of .357
I was surprised by:
a) how light it was compared to all metal revolvers
b) how smooth the trigger was
c) the recoil was more manageable than I was expecting.
I was very impressed by the little LCR and it is in my if I find one for a good price I may pick one up bag I carry around…
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People will make a big deal out of anything…for both officer involved shootings and private citizen defensive gun uses, the long running national average is a hit rate of about 20%. That would be 4 out of 20 so 4 out of 19 is pretty much smack dab center on the bell curve
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In support of the revolver option.
For me, EDC is no single item but rather it is the package as a whole. That means the gun, the ammo, and the holster can all be singled out separately but they still have to come together and work as a whole, or the whole thing doesn’t work.
As a result of that, my EDC revolver, loved for how well it works in it’s role as a part of a whole, turned out to be one of the ugliest guns I never wanted to own.
We used to call the snub nosed hammerless 38’s “lemon squeezers” because that’s about how aesthetically pleasing we thought they were. But you try and find a revolver light and comfortable enough to carry concealed on a skinny body on a hot day, that has enough power to get the job done, and do so comfortably enough that you will carry it every day, all while fitting your hand well enough that you can shoot it accurately…snag free, simple, reliable. It’s even one of the most difficult guns to accidentally fire.
It’s looks didn’t much change, but the way I looked at it sure did.
Lastly, I considered what it might mean if, as those with experience will often say, the crisis is upon you, your being rushed, and your brains fall out your backside, leaving only training and instinct still working in that moment. what carry gun would work best then? … especially if I can’t train as much…well, no slide to come out of battery, no safety, no “round in the chamber” questions, no magazine to drop or be too loosely inserted, and no “wrong ammo” failures to cycle or eject, just… draw, point ( if necessary ) and shoot,- or don’t- , and all with a trigger that has to be deliberately pulled, you can’t just “touch” it too hard. And It doesn’t even need a round in the chamber indicator because I can see the rounds. - If I was looking for an EDC that would help mitigate as many mistakes as possible in a sudden crisis moment, that “ugly lemon squeezer revolver” seemed capable of even that inglorious chore.
I get how a revolver is seen as a “less than” option in the modern age. And that thinking has it’s validities, but for a given, and not too uncommon set of circumstances, a revolver is pretty much impossible to beat, not because it isn’t limited, but just maybe because it is limited, in the mistakes you can make in that sudden onset moment that you never saw coming.
It was my first carry gun, and if I was limited to one single option for a concealed carry gun to cover any and all circumstances without knowing what they were, That would be the option I would least want to be without.
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