[gearbox]

Any have a link to an instruction site offering an education on how to quickly and accurately dump and reload a revolver?

[4v50 Gary]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php=s&.threadid=37948

That's good for southpaws. Let me get a revolver out in the AM and I see if I can remember right hand.

[Monkeyleg]

I don't know if Ayoob is still teaching speedloader techniques this way, but when I was shooting revolvers in IPSC many years ago, his technique was thus:

After the last shot in the cylinder is fired, use right thumb to open the cylinder. Grasp the revolver by the cylinder and trigger guard with left hand. Point muzzle upwards and use right hand to push down the ejector rod. Turn gun muzzle down and simulatenously with right hand, grab speedloader from belt and use fingertips to help guide the rounds into the cylinder. Use left hand thumb to close cylinder and bring revolver up while the right hand is dropping the speedloader and moving to grip the gun.

With practice, this can all be done in a matter of seconds, or even fractions of seconds.

[Nightcrawler]

I find the use of speedloaders to be easier if you're shooting lefty, believe it or not.

Here's what I do. (Mind you I haven't practiced enough to become fast.)

Start off shooting left handed. Revovler runs dry.

-Push the cylinder release with the trigger finger.
-Right hand comes up and pushes the cylinder out with the thumb.
-Right hand grasps cylinder through the frame, and firmly ejects cases.
-Left hand heads down to belt and grabs reload.
-With right hand still grasping cylinder to keep it from spinning, left hand dumps speedloader into cylinder.
-Right hand closes cylinder as left hand moves back to firing grip.

Takes longer to read this than it does to reload a revolver.

[P95Carry]

I dug back to this thread .......

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25549&perpage=20&highlight=speedloader%20n%20frame&pagenumber=2

I posted re my own speedloader approach ... pics are not perfect and my technique is far from definitive but .. for me it works .. and has done for years almost automatically. Mostly learned and practised when I shot a lot of practical revo.

I reproduce the content of that post ..........

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It's impossible to show or describe actual speed but .. just took these few shots to try and show something of what I practice and which .. when shooting practical revo long ago .... would work pretty quick ... and not give gun a hard time. These are quite well compressed but hopefully show enough .... a method I have long used without conscious thought, it is so automatic.

Daresay we all have our tried and tested ways .. certainly here not many ''cyl flickers''!!

http://www.patriotnetwork.net/cb_gun/cyl_01.jpg
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here is let's say immediately after last shot gone ....... right thumb is engaging on cyl latch release as weak hand ''cradles'' cyl .. left fingers going to rear.


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http://www.patriotnetwork.net/cb_gun/cyl_02.jpg
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Cyl now released and been helped outward by weak hand rear fingers ....... right thumb pad limiting travel and thumb itself ready to press on ejector rod.


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http://www.patriotnetwork.net/cb_gun/cyl_03.jpg
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From last pic ... a quick transition to inversion as left thumb ejects empties ..... fingers also turning cyl as inversion taken further.... to better let all cases drop clear. My right hand is actually ''cupping'' here as I would when no rush .. normally cases just dumped on ground.


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http://www.patriotnetwork.net/cb_gun/cyl_04.jpg
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Still ''cradling'' cyl within left hand ... and holding entire gun this way ..... right hand using speedloader ...... and once those rounds released speedloader dropped free. Gun actually would be pointing down a bit more than in this pic.


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http://www.patriotnetwork.net/cb_gun/cyl_05.jpg
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Finally - heel of left hand is closing cyl whilst coming back up to firing postion .... rear fingers control and damp this to minimize stresses .. also as cyl engages I find I automatically ''seek'' a lock position .... then resuming normal two hand hold.


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This is very much a quick synoptic . and no way do I say this is ''best'' .. purely a technique that has suited me with revo's over a great many years ...... and the gun does not get unduly punished. I only thow it in ... for what it's worth! No ego trip!