It should be possible to build a speedloader that auto-indexes using the star.
It would have a piece that stuck out past the nose of the bullets.
That piece would be a round "corral" that fit roughly over the star.
The "corral" would be spring loaded to the rest of the speed loader.
When you pressed the back of the speed loader, the body of the speed loader would move forward, but at the same time it would rotate and at some point an "anti-star" inside the "corral" would come into contact with the star and would catch and index to the teeth on the star.
At that point, the rotation would stop with the shells lined up to the chambers. A little more pressure would push the shells into the chambers and release them.
It should be nearly as fast as full-moon clips to use. Admittedly a little more complicated.
The speed loader would have to control the front of the shells better than existing speed loaders or the rotation would cause them to swing outward a bit due to centripetal acceleration.
[Thanks for moving this to the proper forum...]
It would have a piece that stuck out past the nose of the bullets.
That piece would be a round "corral" that fit roughly over the star.
The "corral" would be spring loaded to the rest of the speed loader.
When you pressed the back of the speed loader, the body of the speed loader would move forward, but at the same time it would rotate and at some point an "anti-star" inside the "corral" would come into contact with the star and would catch and index to the teeth on the star.
At that point, the rotation would stop with the shells lined up to the chambers. A little more pressure would push the shells into the chambers and release them.
It should be nearly as fast as full-moon clips to use. Admittedly a little more complicated.
The speed loader would have to control the front of the shells better than existing speed loaders or the rotation would cause them to swing outward a bit due to centripetal acceleration.
[Thanks for moving this to the proper forum...]
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