Fun little rifle, but loading the magazines is not fun. I saw one made by Caldwell for $35, but it is even bigger and more costly than the magazines themselves, although no worse than the Uplula for pistols. How about this one?

Update: I think this is the Caldwell loader I saw: https://www.caldwellshooting.c...1097887.html#start=1

A lot cheaper there than at Bass Pro.

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Ordered the Caldwell tool. Even with shipping I saved a ten-spot over Bass Pro.

egregore, what is odious about loading the 15-22 magazines?

Looking forward to a consumer report, once you get your Caldwell in hand.

Seems to have universally bad reviews on the product page.

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egregore, what is odious about loading the 15-22 magazines?

No worse than loading pistol magazines with just my fingers, but why work at it? Especially after working with and busting up my hands for nearly half a century.

When I got my 15-22 a while back mags were scarce and I grabbed a pair of pinned 10rd mags and just removed the pin to get additional regular fullsize mags.

The 10rd magazines have a blue follower that doesn't have the "assist button" or whatever you might call it that's present on the red follower. With the blue follower I can just stick a small screwdriver from my range bag through the hole and it's very easy to apply pressure to both sides and load the mag.

You can cut the assist button out and leave the hole behind on the red followers.

Here's an example of the blue follower
https://www.turners.com/prodimages/5012-DEFAULT-l.jpg

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egregore, what is odious about loading the 15-22 magazines?

No worse than loading pistol magazines with just my fingers, but why work at it?

All my 15-22 mags have a loading assist button on them that makes them significantly easier to load than traditional pistol/rifle mags. No harder than using an Uplula or similar loader on a traditional mag. So I don't see how a separate loader could make it any noticeably easier.

Just pull down on the button with one hand while sliding rounds in under the feed lips with your other hand.




If the issue is the size of the assist button, or limited hand strength, there are tools out there to help you pull the button down, like these:
https://www.amazon.com/Wesson-...e/dp/B00EBSSIII?th=1