Mag loader for arthritic hands
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skipper49
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At 68, with severely sore thumb joints, I will NEVER be without the Uplula.
No table needed, just set it on your knee. I've got several pistols( Shields included) that I'd never shoot if I didn't have the Uplula.
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No table needed, just set it on your knee. I've got several pistols( Shields included) that I'd never shoot if I didn't have the Uplula.
Skip
Given the geography you describe, the Caldwell is absolutely the better choice. You can work it while walking around (if that's what you really want to do) because all of the forces are within your hand. The "handle" of the loader sits in your palm, and your fingers squeeze the operating lever against it. This pushes a round up against the magazine and any ammo already loaded, and once the round is above the magazine lips it is pushed fully into the mag. (The mag sits upside down in the tool, so the directions are opposite of how most mag loaders work.) Release the lever and you can put the next round in the window in the side of the tool, and squeeze again.
You do need to lock the magazine into the loader by tightening a large knob, and you have to loosen it to take the mag out after it's loaded. That normally takes some thumb strength, so keep that aspect in mind in deciding what to get.
Be aware that there is an enormous amount of leverage available in the Caldwell loader. It is possible to force an extra round into some magazines if you're not paying attention, and removing that extra round can be difficult. (Don't ask me how I know this . . . .)
Jeez yepman, you walked yourself right into that one
I bought a table just to CLEAN guns much less shootem in the dirt...
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MagLula....only way to go. Mamma doesnt have any problems with it with her arthritis.
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Hhenry
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This is the best one hands down!! Buy one!!
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Skeptic 9c
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The only drawback to the Uplula is the color, the black disappears in my range bag. There are now other colors.
Geoff
Who notes the small one I bought my wife was in pink.
Geoff
Who notes the small one I bought my wife was in pink.
Bkreutz
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Sometimes at a match there is no table to load magazines, I find that I can use the Uplula horizontally, pushing against my belly and dropping the rounds into the opening. (just another option)
Same for my wife it makes it easy to see in her range bag. Her range bag is a moving version of Fibber McGee's closet!
Uplula works. Mine was stolen. I like this one even better....and cheaper. 3d printing is THE hot deal!!
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4 Shield mags in 45 seconds...life is good
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I can relate to your friend. Rheumatoid arthritis has played havoc with my hands. Still have a firm grip and can shoot without pain, but loading mags without my uplula would make shooting my M&Ps not worth the pain of pushing rounds down a magazine with just my thumbs. Uplula gets a recommendation from me every time the topic comes up.
That's part of what I was getting at.....
The act of squeezing, then holding it down on a surface, and not a slick surface or it will be easy for the bottom to slip, so you have to hold it captive, too.
I like the Uplula just fine, but the Caldwell is an alternative depending on your hands 'disability'.
The act of squeezing, then holding it down on a surface, and not a slick surface or it will be easy for the bottom to slip, so you have to hold it captive, too.
I like the Uplula just fine, but the Caldwell is an alternative depending on your hands 'disability'.
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Same for my wife it makes it easy to see in her range bag. Her range bag is a moving version of Fibber McGee's closet!
you're obviously not a young whipper snapper. hadn't thought of Fibber McGee in ages.
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Why did the bloke in the vid put the first round in by hand and then use the loader?
Geoff
Who hasn't needed to do that on his magazines.
Geoff
Who hasn't needed to do that on his magazines.
Spokes
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Put the first round in by hand because if the magazine has a plastic follower in some cases the loader could damage the follower...
I know that is true as it happened to several of my HK magazine followers...
Geoff said:
Yeppers. (Im that bloke btw
)Tha MagLula UpLula has a metal "tongue" that does all the work pressing down on the rounds etc and it is extremely stiff.. If your careful you would be ok but if you got in a hurry and made a mistake it might go bad. Not worth the risk to me. YMMV
LDM
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I have arthritis in my hands and carpal tunnel syndrome from 30 years of pounding on computer keyboards. The Uplula is a God send for loading magazines. I have both the full size for the SD9 and LC9 mags and the small size for the .22 mags. Also take a look at the HKS mag loader. Use that for my Browning HP megs with the metal floor plates.
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