or prevent good people from being able to train and defend
themselves. Fortunately, the American SpeedLoader company
shares the same belief.
The American Speedloader products offer shooters a quick and
straightforward way to load magazines. Their flagship loader design
is used for 9mm and .40 double-stacked magazines. But, even
some single stacked magazines such as the ones for the Glock 43
and 48 models work. The user simply inserts the magazine with
its feedlips down into the device’s base. This base is known as the
“nest,” slip each round down a small slide in the rear of the loader
and use their body weight and upper arm strength to push the
magazine down and magically load the magazine to its full capacity
quickly, easily and most of all, safely.
Unlike its closest competitor on the market, the UpLULA by
Maglula, the American Speedloader works using gross motor
skills that are much less susceptible to the same limitations that
of fine motor skills. To test this principle and to see just how userfriendly
the American SpeedLoader was, Candace began taking her
sample loader to her TWAW meetings. She challenged new users to
compete against experienced UpLULA owners to go head to head,
loading ten rounds each. From the very first try, new users beat
UpLULA users by an average of two rounds with some as much as
cutting the time in half! One lady exclaimed with joy that is was
like using her beloved craft punch.
With most comparing the American SpeedLoader to operating
like their kitchen Slap Chop for dicing fruits, nuts, and vegetables,
it showed the device already has a certain familiarity to many
potential end-users. The UpLULA requires the device to be pressed
down while balancing the magazine on a hard surface. Those
operating the American SpeedLoader need only press downward
using one or both hands and, if need be, even their whole body
weight to seat those stubborn hard to load last rounds. Candace
even noted while at her TWAW meetings, most ladies who never
used an UpLULA before could not intuitively figure out how to use it
without instruction or their own trail and error. This was not the case
with the American SpeedLoader however. The ladies could easily
see how the loader should be used due to its more friendly, simple
design.
Overall, I highly recommend the products from American
SpeedLoader. Although I teach students to develop their skills (if
possible) to load smoothly by hand for those times, you may be
under stress, and away from your mechanical loader, these products
have their value. I have gladly used the loaders over the past few
months before classes and range trips to fill dozens of standard
15,17 and 33 round SIG, HK, S&W, and Glock pistol magazines to
turn hours of loading into a matter of minutes. Their top seller, the
Glock 9mm / .40 cal loader retails for $34.99 and comes in the
standard production black and now, TWAW’s signature purple. To
learn more about these loaders and other products, visit www.
AmericanSpeedLoaders.com to find the one right for you. Enter PMCI
at check out to save 15% off all orders.
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