Maglula To The Rescue – Loading Your Magazine Quickly

By Patrick Sweeney

It’s an adage so old that I’m sure even Socrates thought it was a groaner: “When I was a kid, I had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.”

It brings to mind the good old days of competitive shooting when we loaded magazines by hand. We had to scoop loose rounds out of a box and thumb each one into the magazines. The saving grace was that we were usually doing it with 1911 magazines in .45. I still remember one day of practice when I realized I had gotten so grooved into the routine that I had spent the entire day loading eight-­round magazines and had not once scooped seven or nine rounds out of the box. Only eight rounds, each and every time. That was an indicator that I needed a life outside of guns.

Today, large-­capacity magazines are as common as dirt, and thumbing 15 rounds or more can be work. What to do?

Maglula to the rescue.

Maglula was founded in 2001 in Israel by …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo