Rotate the gun to close and latch the cylinder. Again, don’t flip the cylinder closed!

       Important points

      Having the gun butt in contact with the body makes it easy to ‘walk’ the hand over the gun to perform the necessary functions. Without doing that, the gun has to be juggled in the hand, making it more likely that the gun will be dropped. By bringing the butt into contact with the body you stabilize it, making it possible to reach any part of the gun easily. Use that solid contact to your advantage! It will give you a good anchor point that enables an efficient reload sequence.

      When doing a right-hand reload I tend to place the butt on top of my belt. This seems to give me a good anchor without having to push the gun into my belly, and puts it at a natural and easy-to-manage height and angle.

      When doing the left-hand version, though, I tend to bring it closer to my sternum. The butt seems to nestle in that little hollow at the base of the sternum, which better suits the different angles that the left hand experiences. I’m usually a big proponent of consistency in technique, but in this case I think the deviation is justified by better control and more efficient movement.