What Is A Revolver Speed Loader And How Does It Work?

Here at Speed Beez, our speed loaders came out of the search for the ultimate speed loaders. After years of looking and never being able to find them, we decided to design them ourselves! We also carry everything you’d ever need for competitive and recreational shooting! If you’ve been looking for a more efficient and faster way to reload your revolver, look no further than our speed loaders. Not sure what a speed loader is? Keep reading.

A speed loader is essentially a device that’s used to improve reload speed by reducing the time and effort needed to reload a firearm. They come in a variety of forms for reloading revolvers or firearms that have fixed or detachable magazines. Generally speaking, speed loaders are used for loading all chambers of your revolver simultaneously rather than one bullet at a time. Although speed loaders are also used for the loading of fixed tubular magazines of shotguns and rifles, too.  Revolver speed loaders are used for revolvers having either swing-out cylinders or top-break cylinders while non-top-break cylinder revolvers having fixed cylinders must be unloaded and loaded one chamber at a time.

There are several different types of speed loaders:

• Circular reloaders: These securely hold a full cylinder of cartridges, spaced in a circular configuration to allow the cartridges to drop simultaneously into the cylinder easily.
• Moon clips and half-moon clips: These are special speed loaders used for revolvers that chamber rimless cartridges.
• Speed strips: Intended as an alternative to loose rounds in a pocket or dump pouch, it holds six cartridges in a re-usable Neoprene plastic strip.
• Magazine loaders: These are designed to make loading large capacity firearms with a corresponding high spring pressure that pushes the rounds to the top of the magazine easier.
• Stripper clips: A device that holds a number of rounds, usually from 5 to 10 rounds, and allows them to be inserted into a magazine (fixed or detachable) by attaching the clip to a special bracket and pressing the rounds into place.