Shotgun Reload Practice with Taccom Quadload

[Payne]

My oldest son playing around with his new Taccom Quadload shotshell holders getting ready for our first 3-gun of the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwRqw9sCtoA

[J.Schmitt]

Nice,

3 gunners, Tim will have these for sale at the SCAPSA match in 2 weeks.

Jay

[deadarrow]

DAMN!!!!

[Keith]

Awesome!

I'm starting to play around with them a little now too. I needed a better way to attach it to my belt so I'm waiting on that from Tim.

[Scratch]

Wow! That's quick!

[Payne]

Keith,

No reason to practice with these. They don't work for crap and you will regret it. TRUST ME!!!

[mmcnx2]

Hope those are dummy rounds, practicing reloads in the house with live ammo would not be cool.

[gunnerbmg]

wow nice to see how it is really done!!

[Payne]

mmcnx2

Nope, not dummy rounds. Cheaper to take the firing pin out than to keep buying expensive dummy rounds. The rounds tend to get chewed up after several hundred loads into and out of the shotgun. All rounds are removed via the loading port.

If you want to be even safer, just make sure no rounds go into the chamber, keep your finger off the trigger, keep the shotgun pointed in a safe direction, and don't take the safety off.

[mmcnx2]

mmcnx2

Nope, not dummy rounds. Cheaper to take the firing pin out than to keep buying expensive dummy rounds. The rounds tend to get chewed up after several hundred loads into and out of the shotgun. All rounds are removed via the loading port.

If you want to be even safer, just make sure no rounds go into the chamber, keep your finger off the trigger, keep the shotgun pointed in a safe direction, and don't take the safety off.

Safer - not really, live ammo is live ammo. While all your suggestions are good practices, you'll never see me or anyone near me practicing loads in a house with live ammo. Murphy rules and in the end how many times have we heard I did not know there was someone on the other side of the wall, my finger slipped, what ever.... Videos on You tube that folks duplicate may not exhibit your same unstated safety efforts, hope they don't use as the basis for blowing a hole in something or someone. Dummy rounds are easy to make and if done right can even weight the same. Good luck and be safe.

[PRS]

mmcnx2

Nope, not dummy rounds. Cheaper to take the firing pin out than to keep buying expensive dummy rounds. The rounds tend to get chewed up after several hundred loads into and out of the shotgun. All rounds are removed via the loading port.

If you want to be even safer, just make sure no rounds go into the chamber, keep your finger off the trigger, keep the shotgun pointed in a safe direction, and don't take the safety off.

Safer - not really, live ammo is live ammo. While all your suggestions are good practices, you'll never see me or anyone near me practicing loads in a house with live ammo. Murphy rules and in the end how many times have we heard I did not know there was someone on the other side of the wall, my finger slipped, what ever.... Videos on You tube that folks duplicate may not exhibit your same unstated safety efforts, hope they don't use as the basis for blowing a hole in something or someone. Dummy rounds are easy to make and if done right can even weight the same. Good luck and be safe.

Murphy rules? No firing pin = no detonation. rounds not going into chamber = no detonation. People who have snap caps don't practice loads in the house anyway...

[Snowgun]

Same weight and feel as real round. Cheap.

[Payne]

The dummy rounds are the way to go, don't get me wrong. The bad thing is that they won't last you a weeks worth of good reloading practice and they won't work anymore. They don't hold up nearly as well as regular ammo, and even regular ammo doesn't last long before you need to take it to the range and get rid of it.

Safety is always a primary concern and a previous poster is correct in that nothing was stipulated about removing the firing pin and keeping the shells out of the chamber and that might lead someone who is not safety concious to doing something stupid. This is one of the reasons why we never allow live ammo at the safety areas at the matches. Mr. Murphy has been known to rear his ugly head at some unusual times. So take any advice you see or hear on the internet with a grain of salt and the knowledge that YMMV (your mileage may very).

I highly advise that you don't bother praticing loading the shotgun

[Fast351]

I highly advise that you don't bother praticing loading the shotgun

Uh huh....

[Keith]

Well apparently I suck at loading four at a time. Cannot get the hang of it. I can grab two and load two ok'ish but as soon as I try to grab four it all falls apart.

Talked to Tim and he gave me some tips and said it'll just take a little more practice.