5 bucks seems to be a popular price around here too.
Occasionally you do find other items too.

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Found one of those old double dump pouches, black basketweave, Bianchi with the plastic liners. Repurposed it with 357 Blazer 158 gr JHPs and it rides in my bugout bag as my bugout gun is a Ruger 357 MC

Oh how well I remember the NMSP regs on 12 round loops and how we tried to get around them I carried a single speedloader behind my holster in a pouch I had altered to make it easy to take off without dissembling my Sam Browne. Below is me in 1980.

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Was that your everyday uniform? Personally, I have never been a big fan of bow ties, especially with cop clothes. My deputy sheriff's uniform was a brown shirt with taupe/khaki epaulettes and pocket flaps, worn with a taupe/khaki neck tie in the winter and taupe/khaki trousers. My police uniform was a navy blue shirt, black neck tie in the winter and navy blue trousers with a royal blue stripe.

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Groo here
"Tackelberry"?????????????????? Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The "Flying Donut" has it about right.[From a "County Mountie]
At the SO we supplied are own leather and gun until the guns became standard and issued.[around 1990ish] about the time autos started to get a foothold..
Except for a few places where the row of bullets made a fashion statement.

Groo here
Some of our people used the drop pouch with one side of the top flap
cut away for a tab on the "speed strips".

Loops-we had drop boxes and a few speed loaders, only deputies still used loops in '79. In the early 80s, the Street Survival lessons included carrying a six-round loop carrier in addition to your speed loaders so you could do a partial reload. Most of us carried. .41 mags and nobody made .41 loops, so a local guy made us some. Looked great with the .41 mag WW nickel plated cases with Silvertips.
I still have the S&W brand Model B67 drop boxes purchased from the academy then. They have a metal liner. Best thing about drop boxes was when you could catch a guy who didn't have his rounds in speed strips (most didn't) with his hands full and reach down and pop open the flap-preferably right at the start of muster (roll call).

When I first started in 1969 I carried a model 10 in a swivel holster with six loops at the top plus I also carried a 12 loop slide and another six target rounds in a pocket for snakes or injured animals. One of my best friends had a 41 mag that I liked so I found one also. It was a 58 new old stock that had gathered dust sitting in a display counter for over five years because they weren't that popular then. I bought it for what the shop owner had in it because he was tired of looking at it. I had the same problem with a belt loop for a 41 but did find one for a 44. I soaked it in water and let it dry in the sun. Ammo fit perfect. I got a model 19 a few years later and tried the drop boxes. I dropped more than I could load so I stayed with the loops. As mentioned above we trained loading two at a time and with some practice I got to where I could load them faster than the drop box. I still load revolvers like this for old times sake. I always carried extra ammo in different pockets so I always had a least 30 rounds on me. Later we were issued 66's and later 686's, both with speed loaders. It was all bottom feeders after that.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away a company in California named Tex Shoemaker, went out of business 2 years ago, made some outstanding quality leather gear, favored by LAPD and LASD people who really really relied on their gear when the chips were down.

One of the most interesting things they made was a quad speed loader pouch. Two up and two down. Depending on how tall you were it was either great or dug into the top of your thigh when you sat down.

I joined PD in 1969 and we were issued dump pouches but a lot of the plain clothes investigators wore belt loops.

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Here in Brazil, cartridge loops (both open and covered versions) were used up to beginning of 2000´s by police forces. It are still used by private security firms (like bank guards) and some Municipal Guards, where the .38 revolvers are still surviving as service handguns.

It´s still possible to find cartridge loops in old stocks by clearance sale prices.

Dump pouches are virtually unknown here.

My Dad started around 1960 and was issued a swivel holster with 12 loops attached. He later added a set of Jay Pee drop boxes.
In 1984 when I signed up I was issued drop boxes. I immediately added speed strips, moved the drop boxes behind my holster and added two HKS speed loaders in front of the holster. (I'm lefthanded). A few years later we transitioned to the HK P7M8 and carried four magazine carriers. P.S. also carried a model 37 backup.

Nothing wrong with six- or twelve-round slides or even loading from a pocket if you learn how to do it. Dump boxes and speedloaders aren't necessarily the ultimate in loading a revolver.

I was issued a swivel holster that had 12 loops until the early ‘80s when the swivel was phased out for speedloaders and a boarder patrol style holster.

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Started in LE in 1982, required to purchase my own leather rig and firearms. There was no reimbursement.

I used speedloaders right from the jump. I also carried a plastic (Pachmayr maybe?) ammo wallet in my left rear pocket, right next to my 1 oz snap.

4" Model 66 on right hip, initially in a Safariland open trigger holster. But I moved relatively quickly to a Bianchi "Judge " breakfront. Used same model if I wore a 6" Model 66.

Also had Model 60 S&W on my ankle, and one of the first NAA minis that rode in a shirt pocket that my wife sewed into a holster.

So that was 40 rounds between guns (35 .38 +p & 5 .22 magnum).

Never felt undergunned either, but I guess carrying 3 per shift helps with that.