I've been shooting over 50 years and never used a mag loader in my life until about 3 months ago. I have a FS 40 with 15 round mags and a 9c with 17 round mags. Shooting at the range one day I saw the guy next to me using the uplula and asked about it. He let me use it to load a mag. I packed up, left the range, drove straight to Academy, and bought myself one.

I still have callouses on both thumbs from where I loaded by hand. It was getting to the point that I almost quit shooting pistols because I'm getting arthritis in both hands and loading the mags was painful.

Since then I have bought loaders for my Ruger Mark 11 .22 and the Ruger 10/22. I'm shooting more now than I ever did all because of the magazine loaders.