4seventy you have made quite a few comments on your loading technique being a better system, but you don't give any details! I for one would like to hear how this system works! If you have a better system to load both barrels similtaineously, than the one I described, on the S/S I would be particularly interested! I can think of no way to load both barrels at the same time with an O/U. My system works beautifully for the S/S for me, and the two rounds between the fingers was not invented by either of the people you have credited with it. It was practiced by Tayler, and many before him. Not only with double rifles, but with shotguns as well, and came origenally from the bird fields on Engalnd, Scotland, and Ireland!

I will have to follow my own advice, as you say, now as my left hand doesn't work so well after all the nerve damage done by the cancer, and the resulting surgery!

It makes little difference what is done, when loading one barrel at a time, all that has to do is, be conventient to YOU, but the butstock, or regular belt shell holders only works for one barrel at a time loading! I have always loaded with my left hand,both barrels at a time, keeping my right hand on the pistol grip of my rifle!

for the second reload, I use a little gadgit called
"DOUBLE DUTY" sold by TRADER RICK, and made by GALCO. It holds two rounds held by a little flap & post. When it is flipped open it unfolds on a henge, and drops two round into the left hand, primers down in the palm, bullets up like your fingers, giveing you control for the second two barrel reload.

With the two in the barrels, two between the finger, and two in the DOUBLE DUTY, you have six of the most convenient shells for quick reloading, and that system has worked very well for me for fourty years, except for the DOUBLE DUTY, which only came out about ten years ago, but is seldom needed in the field.

It seems, now, that may have to change my way of reload, because of hand problem!