Anyone want to share pointers for reloads

animalamidon said:
the picture on those two videos illustrates a very good point about a good and bad reloading style.

for whatever reason, the guy on top drops his gun down and is forced to look down; check out his head position

the army dude keeps the gun up in front of his face. that's the way to go.
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Yes and no.
There is not one right way.
Its whatever works best for the individual doing the reload.
currently, its quicker for me to drop my gun to upper chest level vs keeping it in my face.
I fumble it a little less as it is a more natural position for me.

for others it may be different.

that's where practice and using a timer come into play.
 
When you clap your hands in a high position where do you do it? Typically up in front of your face right? That's where you do reloads, and that's how you should think of them.
 
Here's a tip from someone who doesn't compete - so take this for what it's worth, quit trying to be fast and concentrate on being smooth. My reload speeds increased (well,decreased, actually) exponentially when I started to think about smoothing out the multiple steps into one fluid string of motion. The smoother and more fluid the reloads became, the faster they got. It might just be me, but when I broke the sequence down and tried to do each "step" as quickly as possible I found my brain rushing to the next "step" rather than completing the one I was on - net result, bungled reloads.
 
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Slavex said:
When you clap your hands in a high position where do you do it? Typically up in front of your face right? That's where you do reloads, and that's how you should think of them.
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Actually, when I "high clap" its at my upper chest level, otherwise I'm clapping in my own face and not only obstructing my view of what I'm clapping at/for, but pissing myself off.....because I'm clapping in my own face!!
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Like I said, there is no one method to do it.
If you can do it up in your face and be proficient with it, all the power to you.
Ben Stoeger drops his gun down and he's one of the best production guys on the planet.
I'm not going to tell him he's doing it wrong.
 
Where ever you high clap is where you should do a reload with a Production gun. Ideally you don't want your front sight to drop off your line of sight with your target, you're wasting time if you do. The look at the leading edge of the mag well only needs to be long enough to see the top of the mag into it. Once that's done you should be back to a target focus as you slam the mag home and then you be reaquiring your front sight as the gun drives back into target.
I'd like to see video of people's point 6 reloads. My best so far is a .8 using a popper to help provide stimulus beyond the timer. Shoot popper, reload shoot popper again, before it is gone. Light set popper obviously. I've done lots of sub .8 dry fire reloads but I know that they are fakes and wouldn't have got good hits.
Reloads are like draws, spending too much time on them won't win you a match, but not spending enough time on them will cost you a match. A reload under 1.5 seconds will serve you well and if the rest of your skill matches, you will win with that . You'll need good transitions and splits around .20-.25 minimum.
 
I totally understand what you are saying, and fully agree with everything you said.
If I have to do a standing reload, and reacquire a target, having everything in your line of sight would seem to be the most efficient way to do so.

For the majority of the reloads I have done in competition, the reload was made during a transition to a new shooting position.
How much of a difference will keeping the gun up in your face make vs a slightly more natural feeling position (for me at least) such as dropping it down a bit (barrel roughly in line with your collar bones) if you still have to make movement after the reload is complete?
I ask as I would like to learn, not for the sake of being argumentative.

Like I said, I've seen top shooters use both styles, and don't think making a high vs low reload made the difference in their overall results.
In my mind, its what you are more consistent with.
 
I still keep the gun up high when moving, or try to as much as I can. The technique I use is what I got from Todd Louis Green. Pin my strong hand elbow to my ribcage (or the fat covering it) while keeping the gun up in my eyeline, then all I need to do is pin the weak side elbow to the mirror image point on the other side of my body, and the hands line up automatically. It's a instinctual thing we can do with our body, just like clapping. Which is how I think of the hands. This also gives me a ton of stability with the gun as the arms are based off the ribcage (yeah yeah, the fat), not flopping around out in front like some people try to do when moving. I'd love to be able to do reloads without bringing the gun down at all, but too many years of doing it this way, and not having a massive magwell make that much more difficult. When I play around with Standard or Open guns, I tend to hardly bring the gun down at all, as the reload is done quicker and more easily.
 
It may have been said before, but your hand should be quick to index the new mag on your gear, quick to clear equipment and move to magwell and slow to enter magwell and quick to seat. Slowing down at the point where the mag is initially inserted and being mentally aware in training of slowing down at that moment, should result in faster overall reloads. It helped me cut time with minimal effort.
 
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