Where/How do you carry your revolver reloads?

[J. W.]

IMO, the biggest weakness of the revolver is reload speed and the difficulty of carry spare ammo. Personally, I can reload a revolver using speedloaders with sufficient speed that I hardly consider it a disadvantage (or at least a small one) when compared to semi-autos.

Speed strips are easiest to carry, but excruciatingly slow. If you carry speedloaders or moonclips not only how, but where do you carry them. I know a few companies make holders intended for concealment, but where do you carry them?

 

[Maximumbob54]

In the left pocket of the Thunderwear. I carry two.

 

[linde]

. . . Speed strips are easiest to carry, but excruciatingly slow. If you carry speedloaders or moonclips not only how, but where do you carry them. I know a few companies make holders intended for concealment, but where do you carry them?

The speedloaders and commercial pouches I've found might be great for a duty belt but not for concealed carry. I tried carrying them in a cell phone pouch and pants pocket but finally gave up and went to the speed strips.

I carry my reloads in my right pocket and use my right hand to reload. With a J frame - which is not speedloader friendly in the first place - I find the speed strips just as fast (or slow ) as a speedloader.

Russ

 

[sipowicz]

I carry speed strips....fairly fast with a bit of practice...and very positive. with the odds of needing a reload in a CCW situation at about 1 in a million, I'll stick with slimmer option...

 

[J.P.60]

All my carry revolvers are .45acp and I use moonclips. Like magazines, I carry only a single reload. Left pocket of either trousers or jacket. To me, moonclips load as fast as a mag... or at least feel that way. In other words, they don't make me feel like I'm losing because I'm loading a moonclip rather than a magazine.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I use a Tuff Products Quick Strip in a Simply Rugged pouch on my belt. I carry it on my left side.

 

[snub56]

I carry two reloads for my j frame. First is a speedloader in a desantis second six speedloader pouch carried at about 2 oclock on my belt. The second is a speed strip in the right hand watch pocket of my pants.

 

[SixgunFife]

I've been experimenting with the same issue in carrying a Smith 627 Pro (and a 638 Airweight Bodyguard as back-up).

My current methodology is to carry one speedloader in a Wilderness Tactical pouch on the strong side just ahead of the holster, then two Tuff Products Quickstrips in a pouch just ahead of that. A second speedloader rides in another pouch on my weak side (alongside my light, a Surefire G3 in a Comp-Tac carrier).

Still experimenting, though...I'm not overly thrilled with my current speedloader pouches, though I have purchased some snap-caps for reloading practice when not at the range doing the same with live ammo.

 

[Chili Vega]

Galco 2x2x2, speed strip and speed loader in a pocket.

 

[Cheyenne WYO]

2 Speed Strips in each front pocket if holster carrying. 2 Speed Strips in the left pocket if pocket carrying.

 

[J. W.]

Thanks for the info guys. Seems like speedstrips are the only really viable option unless you're wearing a jacket or something with baggy pockets for speedloaders.

 

[photoman]

I use a Galco 2x2x2 on the belt quite often when pocket carrying.

 

[APS]

The tuffproducts velcro pouch that they market for 2 speed strips will fit a single safariland comp1. It will close and when it's on your belt it just looks like some kind of pouch. Currently carrying an LCR with which none of my speedloaders work so I am carrying a speedstrip in the right rear pocket. Only hurts to sit on it if the chair is hard!

 

[badge 851]

I guess a lot of it depends upon what you are comfortable carrying; and your level of training. For me I carry two speed strips held together with a small rubber band in my right rear pants pocket. I have a speed loader in each front pants pocket. I carry twin J frames so my first reload is my second gun. I've been carrying like this since 1971 and practiced reloading both guns for the last several decades. In colder weather the speedloaders are in my jacket pocket.

 

[dirtygrunt95]

I carry both a speed loader in a split 6 pouch, which puts the speed loader on your belt and has half in front and half behind the belt. You can get then from either Wild bill customs or Andrew's custom leather. I have one from each in different frame sizes. That is for emergency reloads. I also have a speed strip in my off side pocket for tactical reloads.

 

[Knightrider03m]

Depending on if I'm using a wheel guns as a main gun or as a BUG (or both );

Main gun: Belt carry with a duel speed loader pouch
BUG: Speed loaders in my pocket

 

[Tracer_Bullet]

Speed strip in the watch pocket of my jeans. If I'm wearing a jacket I'll throw a speed loader in the jacket pocket too.

 

[bmcgilvray]

When carrying my favorite Model 10 or one of its kin and I feel like having spare ammo on hand, I generally carry the reloads in the cylinder of a Colt Detective Special.

 

[oberon]

I have HKS speeloaders for the house. One size fits the Model 10, the Victory, and my 66. My extreme social load is Federal Nyclad .38 special. I have many others, but the Nyclads shoot and handle real well, and are a good performer.
For daily carry, it is often a small auto, or one of the smaller revolvers. In any case I have a NAA .22.mag on me always. I don't usually carry speedloaders, unless I can just stick one in a jacket pocket.

 

[stantheman86]

Speed Strips all the way for CC, a little slower than a speedloader, but I can't always walk around with a cylinder-sized object in my pocket.

With practice you can get pretty good with the speed strips.