difference between tactical reload, speed reload, emergency reload?

[Hornet_RN]

i'm still pretty new to USPSA and IDPA style shooting and i'm hearing all this different terminology that i'm not sure of?

what is a tactical reload? speed reload? emergency reload? are there other kinds of reloads?

thanks,
hornet_rn

[Diabolus]

Tactical Reload: The purpose is to prevent shooting dry. Let's say youre in a shoot house and you encounter three targets and put three rounds in each one. If you have a 12+1 round mag that would leave you with 4 rounds. You would grab a fresh mag off the belt, and with the same hand, eject the current mag and replace with a fresh mag - seat the new mag and stow the old, then continue through the house.

Emergency Reload: You shot dry, and need a fresh mag ASAP. Using the same situation above, you then encounter another threat and immediately dump your last four rounds into the target. You've now shot dry, so you dump the mag while reaching back for a fresh mag, preferably behind cover.

[HCz]

seems like there are some confusions when it comes to terminology among different schools.

As far as I am concerened
Tactical reload : retain partially loaded magazine
Speed reload : quick change of magazine, except I don't retain the magazine that fell out
Emergency reload : slide is locked to the rear, drop the magazine, insert a fresh one.

Personally, I prefer to just condense it to Tactical reload and Emergency reload.

[bruceflinch]

https://www.idpa.com

(check out the rulebook)

[9mmepiphany]

in LE we didn't differentiate between the Emergency or Speed reload either. we taught the Tactical reload for a while, but stopped before i retired.

the standard we taught was the Speed reload. if the mag you ejected wasn't empty, and you had the time, you could always pick it back up

the Tactical Reload and Reload with Retention are a IDPA rule thing