s4s4u said:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but twisting your hand and rotating your hand 180 degrees is pretty much the same thing. I am not saying that this is an awful thing, but there is no need to rotate or twist the hand to adjust tthe oritentstion of the bullets when they are upside down facing aft. Your hand doesnt have to move at all in any secondsry motion different from the arm..., just a clean arm arch forward from upside down to right side up, now presenting the bulkets facing forward.
Sorry, but going from upside down to right side up requires rotation of some kind. Whether forward or sideways it requires rotation. There is no "twist", and there is no need to point the gun at yourself with bullets forward. You like your way and I like mine. I have tried your's and it isn't any more efficient and quite awkward actually. Bullets pointing aft requires twisting the wrist to grasp the magazine, whereas forward doesn't. Different strokes......
Before i dive into that though... notice how your initial set of comments about movement specifically adrress movement of the hand, but now you leave out any specific designation about hand movement in your descirption, other when you wrongly speak of needing to twist the hand when the bullets are aft. I foudn that funny because my point from the very beginning has been bullets aft is what allows the hand to NOT have to move at all.
yes, Some type of body rotation has to happen... the wuestion is whether any
hand movement, rotation, twisting, etc has to happen. with bullets facing down and aft, no rotation, twist, and/or movement of the hand has to take place. Thumb forward, fingers aft, palm facing in (the way most people walk and the way most people draw their gun) the hand is already in position with the mag to have the full arm sweep up and meet the mag well in one motion. If you made the same motion with the bullets forward and down, the bullets would come up facing you... so i joked that i would not want the gun to have to face me to inert the mag. So, to make sure that the bullets dont face you in that scenario, you would have to twist (or i will use your word, rotate) the hand, twist or rotate the gun, or initialy grab the mag palm out... which is not how anyone grabs the gun on the other side of their hip... nor is it how their hand naturally rests. So you would have to twist to get your hand into position onto the mag and then twist back to reorient the mag. Why do that?
Look, I Am perfectly fine with someone wantign to train themselves to do it this way. But when people start calling one way wrong (or awkward) and one way right, I would like to know why? Again, i repsect Blumes smart people told me. But smart peple told Mike the other way. So now, i guess we can just listen to our own smart people... or we can find out their reasoning and decide for ourselves... whcih is what I am trying to do. Especially when doing it the way I was speaking of reqires less overall movement. Sidenote: grabbing the mag palm in, mag down and bullets aft also allows for my index finger to easily meet the front of the first round.
