Gun Digest's Speed Reloading the Revolver Concealed Carry eShort: Learn tactical reload, defensive reloading, and competition reload, plus fast reloading tips for speed loaders and moon clips.
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In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham teaches you the defensive reload, tactical reload, competition reload and other techniques to keep your sixgun running. Also covered are speed loaders and moon clips.
Grant Cunningham
Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.
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Flatten your right hand and swiftly strike the ejector rod one time with your palm. This accelerates the brass and tends to throw it clear of the cylinder, even with short ejector rods. Velocity is more important than force, and it’s important that you only strike the ejector rod one time. If there are any cases that fail to clear the cylinder, multiple ejections will not clear them but do significantly raise the risk of a case-under-extractor jam. This technique virtually eliminates the risk of such a jam. If there are cases that don’t clear, you can pick them out without danger of a jam.
One of the major criticisms of the double action revolver is that it’s hard to reload efficiently. With an autoloading pistol the empty magazine is ejected and the replacement rounds are contained in a large, easy to handle package that goes into the gun in one smooth motion. The revolver, on the other hand, has to be partially disassembled, the old cases ejected, the new rounds inserted into their individual holes, and then the gun reassembled. It’s a tedious task, of that there is no doubt!
It’s also a time-consuming job that requires a large amount of manual dexterity to perform. Reloading the revolver efficiently, especially under stress, is not the easiest task in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, nor does it mean that it can’t be done efficiently. There are ways to make the revolver reload easier and faster, and that’s what this chapter is all about.
The worst case scenario for reloading the revolver in a timely manner has to be during self-defense. Since my personal shooting interest these days is primarily for self-defense, the reload techniques I use are optimized for the demands of that situation. Those demands are very different than those of pure competition; as you’ll see, more efficient does not always mean faster.
Circumstances that affect our technique
Why focus on the defensive reload? Because the self-defense incident is the most demanding of the very things that are required to get the wheelgun up and operating: fine motor skills. They are greatly hampered or diminished during a defensive encounter, and they make efficient revolver reloads more difficult.
Ideally we’d have a reload technique that doesn’t require any fine motor coordination at all, but that’s not a practical goal. The revolver by its very design requires close interaction with our fingers, just at a time when the strength, dexterity, and tactile sensation of those digits is compromised by the event. We can’t eliminate the requirement for fine motor skills because the demands of the gun’s design won’t let us.
That doesn’t mean that we can’t seek to minimize dependence on those fine skills as much as possible. The less we rely on small muscle groups and precise control, the more chances for error we eliminate. That’s why an ideal defensive reloading technique minimizes, to the greatest degree possible, the reliance on fine motor movements and dexterity. Again, we can’t eliminate them entirely because we still have to interact with a mechanical device, but the more we reduce our reliance on those skills