Poll: Loading the last round in the magazine.

[StuperDan]

Do I have girly thumbs, or is that last round friggin' impossible to cram in there. I find I need a key or screwdriver to push the back of the next to last round down. Is there some trick to it? Does everyone just use a loader tool of some kind, or just not load the last round in?

 

[.45Beast]

I just push the 9th round down with my left thumb and slide the 10th in with my right hand. Its not too hard after you fill the mag about 50 times itll loosen up a little bit.

 

[srgvaz]

I push the round down with my left thumb, and slide the next one in with my right hand.

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thats what I do...

 

[novalty]

UPLULA easily does what my arthritics hands struggle with.

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

I've never used one of those mag loaders. On single-stacks, I top them off. On double-stacks, I don't.

 

[1tinindian]

This must explain why I've seen where some people say they have can only get 10 rounds in an 11 round mag for a 4006, as I have always loaded 11 into mine without any problem.
It is tight though, but doable.

Leon

 

[GTbob]

I use an easyloader. If it's supposed to hold 15, it's gonna get 15.

 

[Copnomore]

Try assisting with the thumb of the hand holding the mag, then turn the last round 90 degrees to the stack and push down on the last round turning it to line up as it goes deep enough to fit in the mag. That works for me.

 

["JJ"]

On double stack mags, I bounce the base plate of the mag on my palm a few times after I load 14 rds in my 16 rd mag. This helps put all of the loaded rounds in the "double stack" position & makes loading the last round a lot easier. This is a tip I picked up here on the forum a while back!

 

[18DAI]

Add me to the list of people who didn't know there was a problem getting the last round in the mag. ??? Regards 18DAI.

 

[Loco Weed]

+1 on the UPLULA. Nothing could be easier and it takes care of those pesky hi-cap mags that I have so much trouble with.

 

[Rick-F]

I think the UPLULA mag loader is probably the most useful shooting accessory I have ever purchased. (with it my wife can load mags almost as fast as I can empty them)

 

[tom 45]

I've got a couple of Clinton 10 round mags for my 6906...
I have never gotten 10 rounds in them.
I even took them apart and hand loaded them with no spring...
9 rounds and they are hard against the bumps that are supposed to limit them to 10 rounds.

I've probably got the only 9.5 round mags out there!

 

[Forsmithers]

No problems filling up the magazine to full capacity. But... I do remember that the 11 shot magazines for the 4046 were a pain to fully seat in the mag well. The magazine spring was more or less all the way compressed when you got the 11th round in and when you insert the mag into the pistol with the slide forward you've got to really push. Personally, I found it easier to do it with the pistol holstered like when you are topping off on the line. A tactical reload on the other hand is always a bear on a tight mag.

 

[Cyrano]

The single stack mags I just press down like mad. The only double stack mags I have are for Glocks; they're very difficult to fill to capacity and I use the Glock loader for that.

 

[W.E.G.]

I use an UPLULA whenever I can.

Not that I can't get the last round in with "raw manly strength," but after loading several mags, the flesh starts to peel away from the nail - an effect I'll do without if given a choice.

BTW, we need to STOP using the term "high capacity magazine" to describe magazines which are the normal-size magazine for which the gun was designed.

A 32-round mag that sticks way out of the bottom of the grip is fairly called a "high capacity magazine." The 17-round magazine that fits flush with the bottom of the gun, and is the same size as the magazine that the gun was designed around, is no more a "high capacity magazine" than the current 7-shot Model 686 is a "high capacity revolver."

Any magazine that holds fewer rounds than the normal capacity magazine is a "legislatively-mandated low-capacity magazine."

I realize I have about as much chance getting most people to stop describing magazines incorrectly as I might have getting Hollywood screen-writers to stop calling magazines "clips." I would hope that the folks around here would be easier to convince.

 

[StuperDan]

BTW, we need to STOP using the term "high capacity magazine" to describe magazines which are the normal-size magazine for which the gun was designed.

A 32-round mag that sticks way out of the bottom of the grip is fairly called a "high capacity magazine." The 17-round magazine that fits flush with the bottom of the gun, and is the same size as the magazine that the gun was designed around, is no more a "high capacity magazine" than the current 7-shot Model 686 is a "high capacity revolver."

Any magazine that holds fewer rounds than the normal capacity magazine is a "legislatively-mandated low-capacity magazine."
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As stupid as it is, semantics have a strong effect on non-critical thinkers.

 

[Combat_Diver]

I have no problems with my 1911s, Berettas, SIGs or Smith 6904/6s. Glocks on the other hand need I've used the tool.

CD

 

[daroof]

Completely shocked that 71% of shooters do not use the uplula

 

[TNFrank]

Never really had a problem loading a mag to it's full capacity.