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HKS speedloaders
Just came across these early HKS speedloaders that I've had for well over 40
years. They're anodized aluminum, marked model 27 on the knob and stamped "6 second reload" on the side of the barrel. Very different from their current product. Just thought I'd share.
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Those are very cool indeed!
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Those are neat. I've owned a handful of HKS's over the years, but they've always been the plastic kind. I had no idea they'd ever been aluminum.
Thanks.
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I never saw them in anodized aluminum, all I have are with black plastic, thanks for showing them.
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All my HKS are black plastic too. Those are pretty cool.
I have two of these. They are made by Dade Screw Machine Products in Miami FL.
They are totally different from my other speedloaders.
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Good Lord, have not seen the aluminum loaders in forever. I had the “modern” version for K frame and L frame 357s. The K’s had little fingers to hold the cartridges from jiggling. The L (?) and N did not because a little jiggle helped the cartridges get in the chambers better.
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Wish they still made em aluminum. Pretty cool.
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Boy theme purty. Not “too” much different, in some regards, to the plastic jobs.
Wonder, then, when they switched to plastic?
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Originally Posted by StrawHat
Good Lord, have not seen the aluminum loaders in forever. I had the “modern” version for K frame and L frame 357s. The K’s had little fingers to hold the cartridges from jiggling. The L (?) and N did not because a little jiggle helped the cartridges get in the chambers better.
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Some of my older pastic one for the "K" frames don't have the stabilizer tabs that are on the later ones.
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For some reason I've accumulated a lot of them (I must have 3 dozen, but only 4 of the aluminum ones) over the years, but I hardly ever use them. I keep a couple of them loaded in the house, but since I discovered 45acp revolvers and moonclips, I've always wondered why all revolvers weren't designed for their use.
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For some reason I've accumulated a lot of them (I must have 3 dozen, but only 4 of the aluminum ones) over the years, but I hardly ever use them. I keep a couple of them loaded in the house, but since I discovered 45acp revolvers and moonclips, I've always wondered why all revolvers weren't designed for their use.
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Moonclips work best with short stubby rounds. Long cartridges, like most revolver cartridges, have too much wiggle when clipped, and that makes speedloading them with moonclips very time consuming.
The 45 ACP is actually about the best cartridge for moonclips. I use the ones from Ranch Products. They have been making them since the 70s or 80s.
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I have two 357 magnum revolvers that have been cut to use moonclips, and reloads are way faster than with speed loaders, in my experience.
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In all the speedloaders that I have and have seen , never saw one of those.
Back before everything was plastic, metal was the material used. I remember when I SHOWED these off in the locker room, thought I was so Tacticool….way better than just a dumppouch, or loops.
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In all the speedloaders that I have and have seen , never saw one of those.
Back before everything was plastic, metal was the material used. I remember when I SHOWED these off in the locker room, thought I was so Tacticool….way better than just a dumppouch, or loops.
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Never saw those either. My Bianchi speed strips dry rotted. I'd like a pair of those.
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Wow! I do not remember metal HKS's, but I instantly recognized "Six-Second Reload"! Saw that phrase in all the gun mags way back when. I have around two dozen plastic HKSs in J, K, and 5-shot .44, and several Safariland original models, the ones they call Comp 1 now. I carried them in a Dade case, the one with the leather drop-down front. They gave the best access IMO because you could flick it open and scoop out the loader. I used mine so much that I had to replace the rivets holding it together with screws, and at some point I sewed a leather cuff key pocket on the back of the belt loop. I came across it not too long ago, still holding two Safariland loaders and 12 rounds of department-issue 110 grain JHP from 1989. 
I've never seen metal "speed strips" either. When and where are they from?
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