Hi everyone.

I have some questions about equipment positioning for revolver division. I went through the rules and I cannot find clarity and it would seem (to me at least) revolver rules are being applied in a less than "set in stone" kind of way.

I shoot (mostly) other divisions but... I own a Smith model 19 and I like to shoot it now and then.

I use HKS speed loaders... and up to now I carried them in Daniels Holster speedloader pouches in front of my abdomen. I reload by ejecting empties and then transfer the gun to my left hand, grip the cylinder and with the right hand I then insert mr speedloader, twist it to release rounds (hopefully smoothly) and transfer back to my right hand, close cylinder and shoot the rest of the stage.

At some clubs nobody has an issue with this. I'm no Jerry Miculeck and no threat to most of the other shooters. But at some clubs, (and this seems to be an issue of debate among RO's...) I have been told that I will get shoved into Open division because the speed loaders are in front of my hips. Are revolvers excluded from the "everything behind the hip bone" rule or not? I have Googled videos of IPSC revolver shooters and ALL of them carry their speedloaders / moonclips IN FRONT. And none of them were forced to compete against guys shooting comped and scoped 25 round (Open) race guns, they all competed in Revolver division.

If someone could enlighten me and point me in the right direction or version / section of the rulebook I would appreciate. If all RO's gave me the same answer I would probably have accepted their answer and not have to come here and ask. But I have met RO's that offered lots of oppinion but from talking with them I realised they know fuck all about revolvers and how they work or how they have to be loaded when using speedloaders requiring gravity to make the rounds go into the chambers.

regards