I'm average at best, on a good day.
we were at an indoor range and I was shooting my S&W 25-5 in .45 (long) Colt. I was deliberately slow firing, evidently one of the range guys thought I was doing it wrong and wanted to do a drill with me. he ran the target out to 15 yds. he said when the target started moving towards me, I should raise the pistol and try to shoot it before it got all the way to me. I put all five rounds center mass, no problem. He turned to me and said - I guess you know what you're doing, have a good day. He left me alone after that.
It wasn't a very difficult drill, I guess you could panic under stress or something. He must have mistaken my slow deliberate fire earlier with a lack of skill or something. I was simply working on muscle memory and training for a good sight picture. I also was not adjusting my point of aim after each shot, something too many people do in my not so humble opinion.
Precision first, accuracy later. if you can put all the rounds to the same spot, moving the spot becomes easy. If you're moving your point of aim to 'fix' a bad shot, you have no idea of what you are doing and will chase your tail all day wasting ammo.
like I said, on a good day I'm average with a pistol - this is my fault, as I don't shoot them often enough anymore.
Revolvers are every bit as deadly as any other hand gun out there - anyone claiming any differently are fools.
Misses don't count, only hits do. Missing quickly with a semi-automatic doesn't do you any favors. First hits count the most.
Now, Semi-autos hold more ammo, are faster (usually) to reload, and you can often fire more rounds in the same amount of time - at least a mere mortal like me can. But that doesn't make revolvers any less deadly. You just have greater margins of error with a semi.
But skill and accuracy trumps everything else. Right now, I have to work on both.