[maineshootah]

Hey all,
I threw together two nordic 8 round speed loaders the other day and went to the range to try them out.
Worked slick. However, during the practice session, I found that I was A LOT faster loading my 4 round speed loaders weak hand.

Weakhand:
Holding gun in strong hand at eye level, rotate wrist so I can see the loading gate and push through with weak hand. After the reload I found that my sights were about a 1' high over a standard pepper popper.

vs.

Stronghand:
Rolling gun over in weak hand, bringing gun down to about rib level, and stuffing tec loader with strong hand, grabbing gun with strong hand and rolling back into the shoulder. (Gun off shoulder, have to bring back up then find sights and target)

Yes, I have seen the 1.6 speed load from the weak hand on youtube, and I have seen the vids of Burkett loading both strong and weakhand during a match. Please don't send me to those, I have 'em bookmarked already.

My question is: Which side do you load off of? (open shooters)

Does it depend on the stage (moving right or left) or is it more of whatever will fit on the belt and is comfortable?

At this rate I might be loading weak hand from now on.

(left handed, right eye dominant who learned at a wee age to shoot right handed.)

Thanks

[wide45]

I always wanted to reload on the move. I could reload on the run strong side, but not weak.

[maineshootah]

wide45, on Oct 20 2007, 09:32 PM, said:

I always wanted to reload on the move. I could reload on the run strong side, but not weak.

Good point,
When I was shooting limited, I could reload on the move, however, going to the speed loaders, I found that I could stick the reload (strong arm) within the first two steps then blast to the next position. I have not tried any weak hand moving reloads.

YET something else to practice!

[Topmaul]

I will admitt it I am seriously impressed with you speed loader guys! Cheers, I shoot left handed yet do every thing else right handed that is a huge advantage I always reload with my strong hand.

[kurtm]

Weak hand loading of ANY form simply doesn't work and is meerly a passing fad! It is just to plain slow and fumbly, fumbly, fumbly no matter speed loaders or shell caddies on the belt. You must ALWAYS turn the gun over in order to do any reload fast! This includes Saigas or any other mag fed shotgun. You must stop this tye of loading AT ONCE if you EVER expect to do any fast reloading! KURTM

[benelli2]

kurtm, on Oct 22 2007, 08:13 PM, said:

Weak hand loading of ANY form simply doesn't work and is meerly a passing fad! It is just to plain slow and fumbly, fumbly, fumbly no matter speed loaders or shell caddies on the belt. You must ALWAYS turn the gun over in order to do any reload fast! This includes Saigas or any other mag fed shotgun. You must stop this tye of loading AT ONCE if you EVER expect to do any fast reloading! KURTM

Well if all of us were born with fingers like a proctologist we could handle 4 shells ata time too. i personally think it would be safer if we all stopped and set the shotgun down while loading to prevent dropping it while fumbling with these speed loaders and such

[TRUBL]

HEY!!!! STOP THAT!!!!!

I think you are misleading us. I dont think they call you Mr. Weak Hand as in a sexual induindo.

Besides......I think they should have tables at each loading point so we don't have to lay the shotgun on the ground to reload. It tends to scratch the finish on my gun and I run the risk of plugging the barrel.

Tim

By the way.....in a perfect world, for open....I put the 8 round loaders on my strong side and 4 round loaders on my weak side.

[maineshootah]

TRUBL, on Oct 23 2007, 09:26 AM, said:

Tim

By the way.....in a perfect world, for open....I put the 8 round loaders on my strong side and 4 round loaders on my weak side.

Is this due to space on the belt.. something you saw.. etc?

[TRUBL]

maineshootah, on Oct 23 2007, 06:42 AM, said:

TRUBL, on Oct 23 2007, 09:26 AM, said:

Tim

By the way.....in a perfect world, for open....I put the 8 round loaders on my strong side and 4 round loaders on my weak side.

Is this due to space on the belt.. something you saw.. etc?

I load the 4 rounders weak hand.....I can't do that with the 8 rounders, gotta take it off my shoulder and flip it.

[RiggerJJ]

Your arms are too short Tim! I can do 6-8 rounders weakhanded!
jj

[Supermoto]

I'm new to the shotgun world, but I load weak hand if I am moving just a few steps and strong hand if I am running. I find the gun bounces to much while running to load weak handed.

[maineshootah]

Supermoto, on Oct 24 2007, 10:25 PM, said:

I'm new to the shotgun world, but I load weak hand if I am moving just a few steps and strong hand if I am running. I find the gun bounces to much while running to load weak handed.

Hey Supermoto.. it was your harvard video that made me think to ask this question.


For being new, it looked a lot better than others I have seen.

[TRUBL]

Hey JJ.....I resemble that remark!!!....and no, my knuckles do NOT scrap the ground.

This post has been edited by TRUBL: 25 October 2007 - 04:36 AM

[fastshooter03]

I don't want my hand holding the shotgun anywhere near the trigger in case something goes wrong and then gets worse. I load with the weak had holding the gun right at the end of the receiver and load with the strong hand. If something goes wrong with the reload and a round pops up off the gate and sticks, I can squeeze my weak hand fingers to push the round back into the gun and keep loading rather that dump the whole thing and start over. Of course nothing ever goes wrong at a match, especially the bigger ones.

Nick

[TMC]

I always hold the shotgun in my weakhand upside down and push the rounds in with my strong hand.

http://s228.photobuc...nt=MOV01922.flv

This post has been edited by TMC: 18 January 2008 - 05:51 PM