Ultimate Clip Loader

Wow! MkII/MkIII magazines are fiddly to load, and can give you a sore thumb after a few hundred rounds. I've used the little red plastic loding assist devices that pull the follower button down and hold it for you. They work, and save your thumbs, but they are really no faster to use than loading without them. This device is in a whole other league. You dump the rounds in, close the door, give it a gentle wiggle to let them drop into position, then you can load the magazines by inserting them in the bottom and tilting the device to let them drop in. In practice, it take a little "pumping" as other reviewers have mentioned. But it is still extremely fast. With the 50 round capacity you could easily load 4 or 5 magazines with this device in less time that it takes to load one magazine by hand. Another reviewer who did a video review showed the device dropping an extra round out the magazine chute after loading. This can be corrected by adjusting the stop screw at the bottom of the magazine chute inwards until you find the sweet spot where the loader injects all 10 rounds but retains the rest. I used some action proving dummy rounds found here: A-Zoom 22 Lr Action Proving Dummy Rounds (12 Pack) ...to adjust and test the loader safely. I am very impressed. The device is bulky, but I can't think of any way they could have changed the design to make a significant reduction in size. Overall, this will be an incredible time saver. It works so well I have been loading those dummy rounds into mags repeatedly just because it's fun to watch a well designed machine in action.

I bought this loader to speed load my Ruger Mark II magazines for range target shooting. I currently have two magazines; the original Ruger magazine and a Mec-Gar aftermarket magazine. I saw a video on YouTube where this loader was demonstrated and I decided to get one since hand loading the 22 LRs into the Mark II mags is tedious. Filling the hopper and shaking them to get them lined up for mag loading worked really well. I expected the loader to then load the mags as well as it did in the video and I was really disappointed that I was having such difficulty. I got it to work a couple of times but normally the first round would hang up at the mag and prevent loading. After multiple attempts I was not having much success and was considering sending the loader back to Amazon for a refund. I'd read the TIPS section of the instructions a couple of times but really I had just glossed over it-how hard could this be? Then I decided to read it a little more carefully before condemning the loader. Under TIPS bullet point 2 (no pun intended) it covers bullets not loading into the magazine at all. So I read further and it said to make sure the bullets can drop into the mag freely. If not it said to spread the tips of the magazine to achieve this. I took an individual bullet and manually placed it on the magazine's front tips (pic included) and it took a little force to push the bullet beyond the tips and into the mag. It really wasn't much force at all, nothing you would ever notice when hand loading, but it was more than the force of gravity, which is all that pushes bullets out of the loader and into the mag (besides a little extra force exerted by the bullets stacked behind it). This was the case with both magazines. So I got a pair of pliers and spread the front tips until the round would freely drop into the mag. The original Ruger mag was made of much stronger steel than the aftermarket mag, and more difficult to bend. Once I was happy with the mag dimensions I tried the loader again and it worked perfectly. So the bottom line is I am happy with the loader after going through a learning curve. It will give me more shooting time vs. loading time when the clock is ticking down at the range.

WORKSW SPECTACULARLY WELL

This speed loader is a must have for Ruger Mark .22 cal. Easy to adjust.

I bought this for my Ruger Mark III Competition and it works fantastic! What a time & thumb saver! However, if you don't hold it at the right tilt, it can cause your magazine to fill incorrectly, as I discovered at the range today. But that was operator error. It has a screw that can be easily adjusted in and out to tweak the fit for your particular magazine. Mine would only load 9 rounds of the 10 round mag reliably until I turned out the screw just slightly. Now it loads the 10 rounds (Mass) with incredible speed. I find it works best if I 'pulse' the magazine into the well a few times to ease the loading. Just make sure you hold it at the correct angle or you might find your rimfire cartridges loading in a funky way. (It's only happened once so far, with cheap Federal white-box target ammo, but, as I said, that was operator error.) It's incredibly easy to use, it loads magazines with lightning speed, and it just plain works. It's a little big but that's the one and only 'criticism' I have for it after using it about fifty times now. I wish they had something like this for 9 mm! I could spend more time shooting and less time loading magazines.

As a youngster, some of my fondest memories involve the times spent shooting with my Grandpa. Now at the age of 55, I find that getting back into the sport of shooting without my Grandpa around to buy the guns and ammunition, it can get very expensive. So I invested in a Ruger Mark III, a fun, accurate, reliable .22 that doesn't cost much more to shoot than a CO2 pellet gun. In fact the biggest down-side to me was the time it was taking to load the bulk ammo that I so love to shoot in large quantities. I looked at various speed-loaders and tried several, including the type that hold down and/or lock the follower button on the magazine. They are a low-cost alternative to getting a permanent blister on my left thumb, but still didn't seem to speed up the leading process. Enter the Ultimate Clip Loader (UCL). I read some pretty amazing reviews here, and considering what I have been paying for center-fire ammo for my other handguns, I decided it was worth a try. As always, Amazon's price and delivery were excellent and a few days later I was off to the range with my Ruger and 2 magazines, a bulk pack of ammo from the local big-box store, and my new UCL. The ammunition reservoir on the UCL loaded easily and quickly, save for the couple of rounds of spillover when I tried to hurry the process. A few gentle shakes later 15-20 rounds had dropped nose-first, in a row, into the alignment chamber ready to be loaded. Hold the UCL at a slight angle (a guide is stamped on the loader) and insert a magazine, and the shells dropped, neatly stacked, into a now fully loaded mag. Repeat with the other magazine, and in no time at all I had 20 rounds loaded, ready to send downrange. The time to reload got even quicker when I didn't have to stop to reload the reservoir...I'd guess around 10 seconds to fully load both clips. A few times the magazines didn't load the full 10 rounds when first inserted in the UCL, however a couple of gentle taps or a slight shake and the rest of the ammo fell into place. As a testament to the form, fit, and function of the Ultimate Clip Loader, I sent just over 200 rounds downrange in roughly 30 minutes. This product is exactly what anyone who wants to shoot a LOT of ammo quickly with their Ruger or Browning Buckmark needs to invest in.

It works so well I was skeptical, but it works flawlessly. I’ve used all kinds of different 22 ammo in this it makes shooting so much more fun. I highly recommend this if you know anybody that shoots a lot of 22 this would make a great gift.

...so much for the naysayers.