coolluke01 said:
I was trying to figure out the fastest way to reload the other night. I tried everything I could think of and settled on strong hand reload and hitting the ejector with my thumb.
When using speedloaders, I primarily use a strong hand reload, but it's mainly weakhand reloads with my moonclipped 625 .45acp. It's good to eventually be proficient with both methods, as there are times when the course of fire may make one faster (or safer) than the other.
I do use my thumb, but others hit the ejector with their strong hand before reaching for the speedloader. If you use your thumb, you can get to your speedloader quicker, but you risk having brass hang up if your thumb stroke is weak. It's best, then, if you practice reloads with empty brass in the gun (unlike my bad example in my reloading vid
). Even better is using dirty non-resized brass to emulate what you'll actually be ejecting during live fire.
coolluke01 said:
Do you prefer the Jetloaders over the Safari land? I also looked up this Bubber-ised comp III's. That's an interesting process. Would this be helpful to do on the jet loaders too? Or don't they need it?
My personal preference is for JetLoaders. The diameter of the body is a teensy bit smaller than CompIIIs, so it gives one a teensy bit more room during the reload. After seeing it a few times, I'm also concerned about crud accumulating behind the CompIIIs spring shroud and making their release finicky. I think I'd just cut that shroud off if I were using CompIIIs.
JetLoaders benefit from Bubberizing, too. The idea is to cut down the body of the loader so the injected rounds clear the speedloader easier. Be sure to avoid cutting the center plunger, and
do get rid of
all plastic burrs after cutting. I cut about half the body off mine, and they work well. I've seen some that were radically cut down, but at some point you'll need a loading block to load the speedloaders.
One other mod to speedloaders I can recommend is to fill the hole (I use JB weld) in the center plunger if one is there (my k-frame Jetloader plungers don't have a hole). I'm not sure why the hole's there in the first place, but it'll catch on the inner ejector rod, making it tough for the speedloader to fall free.