MakerShot Magazine Speed Loaders, Designed Specifically for Each Selected Magazine

Review of MakerShot Magazine Speed Loaders, Designed Specifically for Each Selected MagazineThis is a simple magazine speed loader. There’s nothing to really break or go bad unless the small plastic piece that pushes the rounds down would break. This works well with my Sig Sauer double stack for my 229 in .40 caliber. I have not tried it with my duty weapon, the Glock 22 Gen 5 .40 caliber yet. As with most magazines, it’s the last few rounds that are the hardest to load by hand. This is no exception as far as resistance is concerned. This just makes the entire loading process so much easier on your fingers. I found that it was necessary to put my magazine on a hard surface while loading the last 3 or 4 rounds, but it was easier to do the whole magazine that way too. Pressing against body armor while using this loader would likely work too. It just takes a little practice to get into the rhythm.

Getting the 15th and 16th 9mm round in a 16 round magazine was impossible for me as it took darn near 20 minutes just get 14 loaded in the magazine for the S&W SD9 VE. I seriously considered trading the gun UNTIL I discovered this company and read that they have invented a speed loader specific to different semi-automatic handguns. Luckily, they had one for the S&W SD9 VE. It works like a charm!! I was able to effortless load all 16 rounds in less than a few minutes. Now, it is a breeze and so easy that "even a Caveman can do it! " It is worth every $1 of its $18 price! Highly Recommend!! A++

The product works, but a pinch trickier than you'd expect. It sure beats using your fingers and I don't know if you can really improve upon the issue of having the loader block the round you're loading, besides having two different tabs so you can release the back tab as a front tab pushes down and back to finish the job. The loader can even shoot a round out of the magazine. (The reviews claiming it doesn't fit obviously received the wrong product. If it doesn't fit your magazine, return it.)But having a double press would raise the price quite a bit, perhaps more than double. I know prices have gotten out of control in the year 2024, but $17 for a single piece of plastic seems too much. It feels like great quality plastic, but still. I'd still rather buy this than those 3D printed knock offs.Lastly, I think it could use a different form so you can grip it easier. If you have your pointer and middle fingers on each side of the magazine mouth and your thumb/palm on the base plate, it can be used without pressing down onto a table, or you can thumb under the magazine and press from the top with your fingers. Or you can palm the base plate and pull down the top with your finger and thumb. But no matter how you hold it, the surfaces just don't seem adequate to matching the hand, just slippery smooth surfaces with no dedicated finger grips. The ledges could at least be wider.Maybe I'm nit picking a little too much, but I just expected a bit better user experience with this product. It's almost right, but not quite there yet. I just want the shape of the device to take a different form really. I don't care if it's a little tricky to use in operation. I just think it should be better to grip and maybe a few dollars less.

This thing works really well with my PSA Rock 5.7x28. At first I didn't think it worked very well but the trick is as per the YouTube video, to have the loader in the somewhat "up" position, feed the bullet/cartridge in and then press down on the loader. Works perfectly. If you depress the magazine follower first the cartridges will slide in all the way. He's to be a good value and I only just got it but it seems to be working just fine and I believe it is reasonably priced.

Use it regularly to load stiff mags for the Sig 356. Easy to use and has held up well. The mags are very stiff

I bought this loader because the one I got with my pistol was a very generic fit, and was very difficult to use. The pistol is an older Sig P938 9mm single action. It looks like a shrunk down 1911, shoots reliably with no problems.The loader had some minor fitting problems. There was too much room front to back that I shimmed with a thin strip of cardboard that worked well, and the reduced movement helped loading. The width was perfect.The problems are not so much a fault in the loader design or material, but are with the Sig magazine Itself. One issue with the magazine is the tension in the magazine spring is very stiff. Also the lips of the magazine that hold the top cartridge only hold about 1/3 of the bullet case. The cartridges are easily knocked out when touched. All that said, the pistol loads and reloads 100%, so Sig designed it very well. However it is difficult to load.Once the movement in the loader was reduced it worked pretty well, considering what it had to work with. If you are not familiar with how the loader works, the loader slips over the magazine and a little plastic piece pushes the top cartridge down, making room for another cartridge into the magazine. The short magazine lips have trouble holding the new cartridge until it can be pushed further into the magazine. Fiddly, but it works.If I were to change anything in the loader design it would be to make the pusher piece thinner, and maybe move it back 1/16 of an inch. The loader is inexpensive and sturdy, and I will use it as long as I have the Sig.I thought enough of the quality and material that I ordered a magazine holder to protect my magazine. Good company, good products.

This little piece of plastic makes loading mags much easier. While I wouldn't say it's much faster than just inserting the ammo without it, it definitely makes it easier, especially on the fingers, as it keeps the loaded ammo pushed down into the clip enough to slide bullets in on top. Well worth the money... Mine is for a Ruger Max-9.

Works as described. Way easier than just with bare fingers.