Ammo...

I don't have a speed strip, but its basically a piece of elongated plastic that the rims of the shells fit into so you have a little strip of cartridges in a row.

You use it by ejecting your empties then pushing two of the cartridges, in a row, into adjoining chambers, twisting off the strip, then moving onto the next two.

Hope that makes sense.

A speedloader is just a round little cylinder that holds the cartridges in teh same positions as yoru cylinder. To use it, eject the empties, drop the speedloader into the empty cylinder, twist off the loader and that's that.
 
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Here is my brown every-day carry rig.

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Here is the black every-day carry gear.

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The black plastic strip in the foreground is a Bianchi speed strip. The smaller speedloader is a Safariland Comp I, the larger knobbed version is the Comp II.
 
extra ammo

I'm curious where you folks live that you need to carry so much extra ammo? What do you think the law and court system would say when they find a BG with 5 or 10 rounds in him from your gun? Most probably murder and not self defence. If I can't get it done with whats in the clip or cylinder i guess I'm SOL.
 
I find it interesting that 18 rounds is considered a liability by some. Hell, a wonderine carries that much in one magazine. What about those nifty double-stack 1911s?

Just because one has spare ammo does not mean that you have to use it. I'd rather carry it and not need it than have to hurl a K-frame boulder at somebody's head.

Don't folks keep a tire iron and a fix-a-flat in their trunk? What about a flashlight and some spare change? Keep a map in the glove box? Why would a spare reload be a liability?

The legal system can go after you for any number of things if you get a rabid lawyer... you used hollowpoint/dum-dum rounds. You have laser grips, oh it's a sniper pistol. Got a trigger job, you made it into a "hair trigger." The revolver in the brown rig pic is a LadySmith. What's a lawyer going to say about a 6'1", 230-pound guy toting one of these!?

Best defense in this case and I would recommend to any who CCW is to find an attorney conversant with CCW cases and laws, and keep his business card in your wallet near your license. You may wish to contact him from time to time with questions. There are several of them out there, depending on where you live.

I can absolutely guarantee you that shooting at a moving, hostile target is nothing at all like plinking at a paper silhouette or B-27. Your hands will be shaking, your vision will be tunneled, and you will not have near the competence level you think you will. You will be very lucky if even half of your rounds score good, solid hits.

To each his own,....
 
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One extra reload

One extra reload should be the least that you carry on you. You might need it and the weapon is no good without ammo. Even if you end the problem with the 5 or 6 rounds in the weapon are you now going to stand around with a empty weapon?
 
The revolver in the brown rig pic is a LadySmith. What's a lawyer going to say about a 6'1", 230-pound guy toting one of these!?
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Well, he won't call you a "Rambo wanna-be", for starters... ;)
 
Hmmm... I just notcied that I generally carry more ammo when I tote a revolver than on those occasions when I carry a flatgun. Six in the gun, two speedloaders in front of the gun, two speedstrips each in front and rear right hand pockets of my jeans. That's a total of 42 rounds, but it sure doesn't feel like almost a box of ammo. Must be because it's so easy and unobtrusive to carry the speedstrips that I never even take them out of the pockets except to blow the pocket lint off when they get transferred to another pair of pants.

Oh, there's also a plastic MTM box with 50 rounds of .38 Special +P in my glove box at all times.

Excessive? Who cares. All I know is that I'd rather have to defend my choices to a jackass lawyer in court than find myself saying, "Damn! I wish I had brought some more ammo," one day.
 
22-mag,

The odds of a person becoming involved in a gunfight are low. Millions of people go to the C-store and buy their drinks and cigs without any sign of danger. But there are still people who carry weapons and are no doubt viewed paranoid by prosecutors and courts.

Carry as much ammo as you can. Some experts will tell you most gunfights happen at arm's length and less than 5 rounds are fired. But if you're already unlucky enough to be in a fight: there may be more than one assailant, you might fumble your only reload into a storm drain, the cops may all out with blue flu, or you're 60 miles out in the sticks (where I live) facing a family of incestuous, feral malcontents.

Good luck and happy Kwanzaa!
 
I carry one or two speedloaders with extra ammo, depending on what I'm wearing. They are easy to conceal in things like cargo pants or jacket pockets designed for cell phones.

There are alot of things I keep with the hope I never have to use them. Car insurance, for instance. You could make the same argument for 'excessive' car insurance. Obviously I bought it with the intention of wrecking my car for the insurance money, and so on.

jmm
 
Speedloaders & Drop-pouches

Hi Y'all,

I'm lucky enough to have a couple speed-loaders of .357's to go with my
SP101. I carry them in a double pouch on my belt. In the console of each of our pickups, I carry a double drop-pouch, of .357's, for the Mod.94, .357
Truck-gun. And, there's prob'ly a half box of shells, under the seat, too.

I also have a couple drop-pouches around here full of .45Colts, for
the Taurus model 450, when I wear it. I wouldn't be without a reload.

When the Marion County Sheriffs' Dept. went to Glocks some years back,
my favorite gun shop had a whole box of drop-pouches for a dollar apiece.
I bought about a dozen. They still come in handy.
I'm not sure if anyone is making them anymore. Prob'ly.
Nice way to carry 12 rounds. Flatter than speed-loaders, but slower to
load too.
Have Fun.
Old John
 
Nice pics... good to see you color coordinate your Weapon with your attire...haha. But the pics def helped me visualize what I wanted to know. Damn seems like a lot of ammo some of you carry. I feel like it would bog me down, and make me slower for dodging bullets in a shoot out... HAHA that was a joke.
 
It's easier to carry a speedloader if you are carrying in something like a fanny pack. I carry a S&W M296 every day in a Wilderness Safepacker. The revolver slides right in there with one extra speedloader of the Corbon .44 Special load. No more bulky to carry the speedloader with that setup than to not carry it!

Gregg
 
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