Who carries reloads: Speed Loader vs. Magazine

What type of EDC?

  • Revolver, no reload

    Votes: 10 5.6%

  • Revolver + speed loader

    Votes: 43 24.3%

  • Auto, no reload

    Votes: 30 16.9%

  • Auto + magazine

    Votes: 94 53.1%
  • Total voters
    177
  • Poll closed .
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Sped loaders and ccw go together about as well as hot sauce and ice cream.

I keep a speed strip in my weak side pocket. However this is merely spare ammo to top off with after the fact. The civillian ccw reload is a complete fantasy grounded in no facts or statistics found in the real world. So rare is the occurrence ONLY ONE instance has ever been cited and that was a marked man who was engaged on MULTIPLE occasions.

The carrying of a spare mag for automatics is more about having a replacement for an easily lost part that suffers from a fairly high failure rate than the need for more bullets

Being a country boy there's been a couple times when I've discharged my CCW arm for a NON life threading reason. (Not my life anyways) and being able to top up without going home is always a good thing.
 
When I carry a revolver, usually now days, I carry one speed strip and rarely a speed loader. It's more convenient to carry and I don't figure I'll need a reload. If I do, I'll be behind cover. I ain't standing in the open letting anyone shoot at me.

When I go to the big city, I carry my .357 primary in a Hume JIT slide, my .38 in my pocket and a speed strip of .38 that will feed either gun. I also always have a NAA mini revolver in my weak side pocket if things were to get REALLY desperate.

No choice for speed strip, so I didn't choose.
 
Currently, my primary carry guns are my S&W 386 snubbie or my Glock 36. I always carry a speed loader or sometimes a speed strip for the revolver and a spare mag for the pistol.
 
The most common source of failure of an autoloader is the magazine. Just makes sense to carry a spare. Sort of like having a spare tire in your car. Doesn't make you go faster, but get you moving again when you have a failure.
 
Yes, I should have included speed strips. This is another good thread to bring up the "edit poll" or "remake poll" suggestion ;)
 
If I'm carrying a revolver, I generally don't carry a reload. At most, I keep a little dump pouch of a cylinder's worth in my jacket pocket. For me, if i'm carrying a revolver, it's mostly due to bulk/weight/wardrobe restrictions. I'll be in an environment where I feel five rounds of .357 is good enough (walking the dog, shopping in the touristy quaint downtown, bumming around my backyard or at the office).

If I carry a semi, I carry a reload most of the time. Magazines are compact and the number one cause of pistol malfunction. Another easily loaded 8-17 rounds (depending on the gun) isn't hard to pack.

That said, I ALWAYS keep a minimum of one full 50 round box of ammo for whatever carry gun I have on me in my truck. Mostly, it's to make sure I have something to shoot if the mood to hit the range strikes me. However, I'm much more paranoid about a big national/regional dust-up and getting home than I am about being jumped by 7 PCP tweakers as I leave the ice cream parlor and needing to have 150 rounds on my hip all the time. My truck is my BOB, and I like to keep it stocked with enough to get me back home/pick up my family.
 
I carry just the five in my 3" sp101.

For me, as it is a last resort for personal/family safety, I adjust habits/activities first if at all possible.

Of course, it also probably helps that there's another 5 in my wife's 2.25" sp101 as well.
 
I understand that a speed loader is too bulky to want to carry, but I don't understand why several 5-shot revolver toting posters here won't carry a speed strip with 5 rounds in it. Or even 2-3 loose rounds.

It's not heavy, it's not bulky and it's not hard to carry.

And for the umpteenth time, it's not for reloading during the fight (people) or encounter (animals), but afterwards.
 
If you are carrying for a firefight you are going to get shot. Stay the heck out of trouble...who in their right mind wants to stick around and have a 50 round shootout. These kind of polls convince me that way too many guys are living in fantasy land.
 
Casefull said:
If you are carrying for a firefight you are going to get shot. Stay the heck out of trouble...who in their right mind wants to stick around and have a 50 round shootout. These kind of polls convince me that way too many guys are living in fantasy land.
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oh, I don't know. What does a spare mag weigh? couple of ounces?
What about a speed strip?

Why not carry one? Its not going to hurt you in anyway whatsoever.

Also, you sound like the guy that doesn't see the reason people carry guns at all. Well, I choose to carry a pistol and a mag!

:neener::neener:

;)
 
In the winter I pack a subcompact Glock and spare magazine.

In the summer I pack a 640-1 S&W Centennal and a speed strip in a Uncle Mikes cordua pouch.

And maybe a Saber 'Spitfire' pepper spray in an off side pocket.

And that is that.

Deaf
 
Carry only New York reloads (2 or 3), and they are a mix of revolver and autoloader. Today a Walther PPK, a S&W 396 and a Sig 229.

Takes about 1.5 seconds to reload (using a speedloader/-strip, moon-clip, or mag)... in that time a perp can turn me into Swiss cheese. Plus I may lose sight of the attacker(s). Lots of things can go wrong.

New York reloads work for me, YMMV.
 
If you are carrying for a firefight you are going to get shot. Stay the heck out of trouble...who in their right mind wants to stick around and have a 50 round shootout. These kind of polls convince me that way too many guys are living in fantasy land.
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I don't see how more rounds means I'm going to get shot. Is that like saying if I have some spare gas in my trunk that I'm going to speed?
 
Casefull said:
If you are carrying for a firefight you are going to get shot. Stay the heck out of trouble...who in their right mind wants to stick around and have a 50 round shootout. These kind of polls convince me that way too many guys are living in fantasy land.
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I've been shot. Have you? I wouldn't exactly call Detroit "Fantasyland".
 
I always have a reload with me. Never needed even the first round but that could change as we well know. I just feel like I should have that option.

Mark
 
Always, always, always, I carry a reload. Might need to put down an animal. Might need to reload after a fight.

Revolver speed strips are light, compact, and cheap. Why wouldn't I drop one or two in a pocket?

Auto magazines break. The only recourse is another one, or a spare gun. Spare magazine is easier to pack.
 
Combat Engineer said:
Carry only New York reloads (2 or 3), and they are a mix of revolver and autoloader. Today a Walther PPK, a S&W 396 and a Sig 229.

Takes about 1.5 seconds to reload (using a speedloader/-strip, moon-clip, or mag)... in that time a perp can turn me into Swiss cheese. Plus I may lose sight of the attacker(s). Lots of things can go wrong.

New York reloads work for me, YMMV.
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It sounds like you're pulling the 1.5 second time frame out of thin air, but let's say you're not. How fast is your draw of the second and third gun?

How do you carry them?

Cirillo carried his second gun crossdraw, but it was during stakeouts and he didn't need to worry about concealment.
 
Hallo David E.,

"It sounds like you're pulling the 1.5 second time frame out of thin air... How fast is your draw of the second and third gun?" [David E]

The 1.5 seconds refers to my time for reloading ammo into a handgun, which for me is a fiddly process fraught with uncertainty. Actual draw time to second and third handguns is zero, that's right, zero seconds. How can this be? Think about it.

"How do you carry them?" [David E]

My handguns are usually carried in 3 different places, high to low. Since everyone is physically different, locations can vary.

Best to you.
 
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