All you revolver guys I am looking for opinions on what you prefer in terms of reloading techniques for defensive shooting situations.
I will be putting my new 586 L-Comp into the carry rotation and have been researching this. I have seen a variety of techniques and they all seem to fall into one of two canps:
1- Using the strong side hand to insert the cartridges, whether by speed loader/moon clip or single loading, which means keeping the spare ammo on the strong side and which also involves switching tge revolver between hands.
2- keeping tge revolver in the strong side hand and reloading with tge weak side hand which also means keeping the spare ammo on the weak side.
Which does everyone prefer?
My intended carry particulars:
586 L-Comp cut for moonclips to be carried in a leather OWB thumbbreak holster. I am thinking I will be using speed loaders as opposed to the moonlips as I think the former would probably be less fussy than the moonclips which hold the ammo in loosy-goosey fashion. I am thinking I would have the initial cylinder loaded on the moon clips however for more possitve extraction i.e. one goes they all go with no issues with one or more cases sticking.
Another consideration is that if I carry the reloads strong side along with the holster I'd only have room for one reload as to keep things form being too crowded. If I carried the ammo weak side I'd have room for a double pouch setup.
Furthermore I am currently considering 586 carry as a more cold weather option for now though this may change since I was able to conceal tge gun pretty well under just a polo shirt. That's just with me wandering about my home tgough, I have yet to actually CC the L-Comp in public. That said the holster I got seems to keep the gun tucked in tight to my side and the 3" barrel means the gun does not extend below the belt line much. I wore it on my hip for several hours and I didn't find tge weight of ot to be all that cumbersome either.
And low ammo count be damned, 7 shots of full house .357 Magnum seems to be a pretty stout amount of firepower to me, especially if I can get myself trained up decently well on the reloading aspect.
I dunno, I just felt pretty bad ass with that big iron on my hip, I don't get that feeling with a Shield or Glock 19.
I will be putting my new 586 L-Comp into the carry rotation and have been researching this. I have seen a variety of techniques and they all seem to fall into one of two canps:
1- Using the strong side hand to insert the cartridges, whether by speed loader/moon clip or single loading, which means keeping the spare ammo on the strong side and which also involves switching tge revolver between hands.
2- keeping tge revolver in the strong side hand and reloading with tge weak side hand which also means keeping the spare ammo on the weak side.
Which does everyone prefer?
My intended carry particulars:
586 L-Comp cut for moonclips to be carried in a leather OWB thumbbreak holster. I am thinking I will be using speed loaders as opposed to the moonlips as I think the former would probably be less fussy than the moonclips which hold the ammo in loosy-goosey fashion. I am thinking I would have the initial cylinder loaded on the moon clips however for more possitve extraction i.e. one goes they all go with no issues with one or more cases sticking.
Another consideration is that if I carry the reloads strong side along with the holster I'd only have room for one reload as to keep things form being too crowded. If I carried the ammo weak side I'd have room for a double pouch setup.
Furthermore I am currently considering 586 carry as a more cold weather option for now though this may change since I was able to conceal tge gun pretty well under just a polo shirt. That's just with me wandering about my home tgough, I have yet to actually CC the L-Comp in public. That said the holster I got seems to keep the gun tucked in tight to my side and the 3" barrel means the gun does not extend below the belt line much. I wore it on my hip for several hours and I didn't find tge weight of ot to be all that cumbersome either.
And low ammo count be damned, 7 shots of full house .357 Magnum seems to be a pretty stout amount of firepower to me, especially if I can get myself trained up decently well on the reloading aspect.
I dunno, I just felt pretty bad ass with that big iron on my hip, I don't get that feeling with a Shield or Glock 19.
