revolver unloading spent casings...Technique

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Just curious. I was practicing unloaded spent casings and found the best way was use my weak hand to hold the pistol on it side with the cylinder open and my two middle fingers under, thru the cylinder holding it open, I then point up and press the ejector rod with my thumb as my right hand reaches down for a fresh speedloader. My question is more about if this sounds safe...? (ie: 90 being close to broken, and shooting indoors; people are upstairs.....)

I find if I don't point the revolver up I get a casing that likes to get stuck half way out.
 
That is probablyt the most used method of reloading a revolver, and the approach used by Jerry Miculek the revolver guru. The other method is to hold the gun in your strong hand and hit the ejector rod to kick the empties out with your left hand.

If you check it is actually fairly hard to break 90 with the method you are using as long as you avoid trying to 'flick' the gun to kick the enpty casings out, but you still have to watch your muzzle direction at all times. The grip type (stock - not hand position) on the gun will also play a role in empties coming out or not, but you do have to hold it fairly upright to get them to clear. I have relieved my grips even more than they come to allow better clearance. If you are shooting hot loads you will find the barrel end at the forcing cone will give you a little burn on the middle finger.

I can't comment on the indoor range acceptability re. muzzle direction, although I have seen guys do that reload technique indoors...ask the range you shoot at.

Pick up Jerry's video if you are into revolver shooting, it is excellent and his reloads are phenomenally fast.
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Cheers
 
I made another post and commented on the speedloaders (HKS), that require the user to twist. I think I am liking these more, as now that I polished the chambers a bit they work better. When I use the cheap push ones (that use the spring that goes around the outside hold the rounds in), I found that if I bump them at all the wrong way or if the bullet rubs against the speedloader pouch when I pull them out, a round or rounds can come loose, and I will end up with 4 or 5 rounds loaded.......ie, I don't feel they are as reliable as the HKS twist ones.
 
As Ike says, that's one of the two main techniques you see. I ended up using the OTHER one (revolver kept in strong hand, with the weak hand hitting the ejector rod and dropping in the fresh ammo) just because I found it hard to get my wrist twisted all the way over to make dropping in a fresh moonclip easy; keeping the gun in your strong hand makes dropping one in a whole lot easier. PLUS, it makes it a lot harder to break 90, because the gun stays pointed in the direction your body's pointing.
 
I have the same problem as SDC wrt my wrist angle and try practicing the strong hand reload but when the pressure comes on i always revert back to the other way. I will have to practice and practice and practice and practice and practice.
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The speedloaders I didn't feel comfortable using were the Dade speedloaders. (good enough for Dirty harry in the movies, but really "iffy".)
 
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