Speed loader for gate loading

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

How about this Pards!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-tbT3iSvGM&mode=related&search=

[PvtGreg]

I say - wow!

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

We have a pard in these parts who uses something similar. He has two of them, they each hold 10 rounds. he drilled witness holes so he could count the rounds. He places a golf tee in a hole in the end to hold them in place. When he goes to load he places it against the loading gate like that, and shoves them in with a stick.

[Fox Creek Kid]

Real authentic & "spirit of the game".    I would ban those is a New York minute. THIS is what will kill this hobby.

[Ransom Gaer]

Fox Creek,

I watched the video, but I thought the gizmo to be overrated.  It took him somehing like 20 seconds or so to load the tube and a couple of seconds to load the rifle.  Where are you gonna use it except at the loading table?  I've yet to shoot a match where there was a full rifle reload on the clock.  The other thing is while he's loading that tube I think most folks would make pretty good progress loading the rifle at the same time instead of a tube.  It doesn't take me that long to load my Henry at each stage.  I'm not convinced it would not save you that much time and at the loading table who really cares.  The only advantage I see is it might save some wear and tear on my fingers.   I always seem to nick cuticles around the loading gate on my '66.

Ransom Gaer

[litl rooster]

  I wouldn't go as far as Banning them, to each his own....I have never been that pressed for loading time at the table.  Usually wait for 2 or 3 shooters to finish before I get to the point for the call "next shooter"  There's normally enough time to cap to revolvers and load a rifle...If not let someone go ahead of you.   It's just a game, people like to try to show off their different skills, (be it shooting smithing or being creative) no prizes for winning.  For what I got invested I could have bought a new Harley. This guy come up with a clever devise let him push 'm to the ones who want it. 

  RG your right about the time it takes.  It takes as long to load a loading block also, but most folks take one to the loading table.

[Arcey]

Real authentic & "spirit of the game".  I would ban those is a New York minute. THIS is what will kill this hobby.

One of the reasons I'm glad we're SASS these parts 'n not NCOWS.

Know one ole boy with one.  The idea ain't ta load the 'speed loader' it the table. Ya bring it ta the table loaded already.  It wouldn't be legal ta use on the clock.  Heck, yer shoots anythin' like ours ya have too many shooters ta run thru.  Full rifle on-the-clock reloads would cause the thing ta run 'til dark.

What Rooster said.  Most folks 'round here use a block.  Load it at yer cart. Get ta the table swing the cover aside 'n both you 'n the table watcher kin see at a glance ya got the round count straight.  Yer on unlevel ground, the block holds the cartridges instead of 'em rollin' all over the table or off 'n on the ground.  I got a small screw-'em-in driver on the lanyard I stick in a cartridge loop when I'm done with it then go shoot.  Most efficient method of gettin' the proper number of cartridges to the table 'n holdin' 'em in one place 'til yer ready for 'em I know of.

Folks like ta tinker 'n make stuff though.  Some like ta do things different.  That thing looks ta be a novelty 'n it might get a chuckle er two from them what ain't seen one before.

[Pettifogger]

Several people had them around here in the southwest for a while, but they have completely vanished as far as I can tell.  They aren't legal for an on-the-clock reload and by the time you load it, take it to the loading table, use it, and then have to figure out what to do with it, it wasn't worth the few seconds in time it might save.

[Driftwood Johnson]

The pard who uses one around here doesn't load the thing at the table. He charges it up at his cart, no different than somebody loading up their loading block at the cart. At the loading table he strips all the rounds out of the loading tube into his rifle much faster than I can do it singly out of my loading block. I thought it was pretty nifty, although I'm not gonna make one myself.

[Delmonico]

Ya know ol Foxie is tryin' ta save ya from yerselves,, speed loaders at the loading table?  Next thing ya know folks is gonna want to be drivin' them new fangled aoutomoblies to shoots and changin' their clothes at the range. Then they gonna want to be peeing and poopin' in plastic out houses instead of out in the woods like is proper PC.  Next thing ya know they ain't gonna want to shoot at each other no more, they are gonna want to shoot just targets.

[Fox Creek Kid]

Your spelling is improving, Dellie. 

[Arcey]

Nice rebuttal, FCK.  Shows folks exactly where your well-thought-out views on the topic came from.

[Delmonico]

I thought's only Farbies, dun spelled writ and used good gammer.   Must have missed that memo.

[Arcey]

I thought's only Farbies, dun spelled writ and used good gammer.   Must have missed that memo.

Heh, heh, heh.......

[Delmonico]

Well I've a dun read alots of them dirarys things, tain't nun of them could spells worth a durm, always thouths that was PC.