Gun Digest's Pistol Shooting Tips for Concealed Carry Collection eShort by Grant Cunningham

Author:Grant Cunningham [Cunningham, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3394-4
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

A unique design

There is one speedloader device that defies easy categorization: the Maxfire speedloader. It’s a rubber device that holds the cartridge heads much like a SpeedStrip, but instead of holding them in a line the rounds are arranged in a circle to fit the revolver’s cylinder. The rounds are slightly staggered and are released from the side of the Maxfire.

In use, the loader is inserted into the cylinder and then pulled to the side, off of the cartridges. The rounds are then free to drop into their chambers. It has a large finger loop on the top to facilitate this maneuver.

While the staggered rounds make the Maxfire slightly easier to insert into the cylinder (only two rounds are being aligned at any one time), I’m not at all fond of the design. Pulling the loader off of the rounds applies tremendous side force to the cylinder, and that force is transmitted to the fragile crane (or ‘yoke’) on which the cylinder rides. The crane can be deformed by that force, and I’ve actually seen guns with bent cranes whose owners admitted to using Maxfires.

In practice, despite the theoretical insertion advantage, I’ve found that they’re no faster than any other loader. My reloading times with the Maxfire are in fact slower than with any other speedloader, due largely to the change in hand movement: in, then out, grab the ring, pull sideways. Though familiarity might make them a bit easier to use, they’re just not as efficient as a Safariland or SL Variant. The Maxfire is an interesting concept which I can’t in good conscience recommend.

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