Speedloaders for SW 500

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The year that the first 500 Smith and Wesson Magnum revolver was introduced, Herb Belin (S&W Product Mgr) had a prototype 3" and a pair of speed loaders with him at the SHOT show. Herb was showing the little 500 snubby to all the gun writers but it was kept hidden from the public. The 3" prototype even had a wrist lanyard attached to the butt of the revolver.

The speed loaders were HUGE just as Redhawk1 predicts. They were hand made of aluminum for Herb as a joke to go along with the 3" model that S&W thought would never be built.

If my memory is correct, Marc Jamison at Jamison brass produced them. Most any good machinist can take a 5 shot J-frame speed loader as a template and upscale it.

Just remember that a speed loader and ammunition is larger than a J-frame snubby and weighs more.
 
By the time you fired 5 shots of heavy .500 Mag ammo at a threat, it ought to be either very dead or very deaf if you missed. I have the speed strips.

No intent here whatsoever to be rude to the OP. Don
 
Thanks for response, guys. My brother does not use this revolver for anything other than plinking so he doesn't really NEED speed loaders, but he is attracted to the idea. If some were available, it would have made a nice stocking stuffer type of X-mas present. He is not interested in cutting the cylinder for moon clips; I suggested that to him and his answer was an unequivocal no. I'm also not gonna go through the trouble of finding someone to handcraft some custom speedloaders for him.

Don, how do you like the Tuff Products quickstrips? Do they work well? Anyone else try them?
 
KMB said:
Don, how do you like the Tuff Products quickstrips? Do they work well? Anyone else try them?
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They work quite well, not as fast as a typical speedloader but faster than fumbling around with thumb sized rounds! Don
 
That might be something that would be just interesting to have....not for speed but when you get to the field, you wouldn't have to fumble with the cartridges and run the chance of losing it in the darkness.
 
I use the Quick Strips in my revolvers and like them.
I liked them so well I added them to my website and sold quite a few.
Rob
 
Plinking....

plinking...with a .500.....the mind boggles....
 
What a giggle! Thank you for that mental image: rapid fire with a .500!!

I think that speed strips would be sufficient to minimize fumbling in the field.

If you do convince someone to build speed loaders, I suggest doing them in aluminum. The bodies could be anodized in all sorts of pretty, holiday colors.
 
the big advantage quick strips have over round speed loaders is that you can top off your gun as you go and they lay nice and flat. Before quick strips I used Lee Enfield or Mosin Nagant stripper clips for my 44s.
Rob
 
Speed strips rock

+1 on Tuff strips...very easy to store/carry and use

A .500 speedloader would be cool, though. About the size of a softball, but cool...not so much fun to have in your pocket or dangling from your hip.

Why Tuff Strips hold 6 pills instead of 5, I do not know.
 
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