I would have thought that with enough practice and some smooth loading bullets like Golden Sabers or similar you could reload from muscle memory with a speed loader and not even be looking at it. No good reason to break eye contact with the threat. I know the USN isn't all super tactical like the USMC is but even I learned how to very effectively reload the M9 and not take my eyes off the target. I would think that would be pretty difficult, not impossible, but pretty difficult with a speed strip. So I guess it just depends on what you want from your carry and how much practice you want to put into it. Right now I’m favoring once I get my permit to buy my 442 and carry at least two speed loaders. I had thought about an M&P9c or the Ruger SR9c only because they are both compact and have good reliability and that same trick I learned about using your finger on the front of the mag to guide the insertion would still apply. But the little 442 just looks SOOOO much easier to carry…