Any device to make rimfire loading easier?

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Now that the kids are shooting I'm finding that my big old hands get quite tired loading the little rimfire rounds in my revolvers (and somewhat in my tube fed rifles too). I can shoot semi autos or 357/44/460....whatever all day but the little rimfires hurt. Years of weight lifting, wrenching, and sawing have taken some toll (not age... couldn't be age). Years ago I made me a hopper hooked to a metal chute with a slit big enough for the bullet and case to fall through but be left hanging by the rim. Worked great for DA 22s. It was lost a move or two ago. I may weld up another but Is there any such device made or any good option for loading 22. Not looking for a speed loader as I have those in 10 and 6 shot but something to orient the ammo and hold it or make loading the 22s easier. I'm sure others have some good ideas here.
 
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Which mags are you loading?
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Not mags. DA revolvers. Mostly an old 6 shot k-22 and a couple 10 shot models. And tube fed rifles from bricks of bulk ammo usually. Seems like there would be something to orient the loose rounds. Kind of like the hopper on a progressive press. Dump a handful and the come out oriented the same way. I made such a thing years ago. Dump in the rounds and they slide down the chute bullet down. I have basketball palming hands but I dont excel at gripping and turning those tiny rimfires. It's not an issue if I'm shooting 50 round boxes as they are oriented in the pack. Right now I'm on a case of aguila and they have excellent packaging btw. I figured someone made one though. Not a huge deal. I've managed to shoot a few k since this whole furloughing thing started so obviously I'm not struggling too bad. But it would be nice. I have mag loaders for handguns and AR mags. Why not for 22.
 
The first result from an internet search....

https://www.speedbeez.com/22lr-speed-loaders/

I have not used these, so caveat emptor...

I hacked this together for my wife’s 686, so she would shoot at her classes rather than load....I think you can now buy something like this, instead of building....

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rabid wombat said:
The first result from an internet search....
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Those are highly recommended actually. I have those for the 617 and GP. Still have to orient and load the block one at a time though. I drilled the pattern out on a board and load the speed bees that way. Nice work on your setup. I may make me a hopper like the Lee case collator scaled down and see if the 40 grain bullets are heavy enough to make that work to drop the bullets, bullet end down. I'm surprised that I can't find anything given the popularity of 22
 
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Those are highly recommended actually. I have those for the 617 and GP. Still have to orient and load the block one at a time though. I drilled the pattern out on a board and load the speed bees that way. Nice work on your setup. I may make me a hopper like the Lee case collator scaled down and see if the 40 grain bullets are heavy enough to make that work to drop the bullets, bullet end down. I'm surprised that I can't find anything given the popularity of 22
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a speed loader, loader, loader....I think we are back to “kids”....

there is a mag loader for Ruger 22 pistols that works with the hopper / collate idea....speedbeez has one, and others.... https://www.speedbeez.com/product/ruger-mark-4-22-ultimate-clip-loader/

Getting the round from the hopper to the loading block would take some thought / modification...
 
crestoncowboy said:
Now that the kids are shooting I'm finding that my big old hands get quite tired loading the little rimfire rounds in my revolvers (and somewhat in my tube fed rifles too). I can shoot semi autos or 357/44/460....whatever all day but the little rimfires hurt. Years of weight lifting, wrenching, and sawing have taken some toll (not age... couldn't be age). Years ago I made me a hopper hooked to a metal chute with a slit big enough for the bullet and case to fall through but be left hanging by the rim. Worked great for DA 22s. It was lost a move or two ago. I may weld up another but Is there any such device made or any good option for loading 22. Not looking for a speed loader as I have those in 10 and 6 shot but something to orient the ammo and hold it or make loading the 22s easier. I'm sure others have some good ideas here.
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Never had a problem with tubes or cylinders but when I was a kid I carried an empty key ring in my pocket during the warm months and had one on the zippers of my jacket/coat when it was cool, to hook over the thumb pin on the mag of my .22 pistol, so I could pull and hold it down to drop the rounds in.

I was pretty glad to load my own .22's once I was allowed to though as I always had to find a tree to pump up my Benjamin air rifle. By the time I was able to pump it all the way up "free hand", I had been into .22 rimfire for a couple years.

That said, when I was a teenager, my Father got mad at me for making his welding gloves too hard, handling hot metal. He told me to quit using his gloves as I ruined them forever and had I not used them, my skin would grow back. He made me a tougher person but now I have gloves all over the place.
 
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When I get tired of trying to pluck them out of the containers I just pour them out onto a flat surface and pick away...Using the KHS 22K makes the Model 17 easy to load, loading the Single six or Wrangler is about as methodical a shooting action as there is...and unless I'm swapping cylinders there's no model of speedloader I can use :(.

Good luck with your quest.

Stay safe.
 
Perhaps something like this could help?
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Maybe they have an adapter that could drop them by the rim into a cylinder, one at a time.

I have their model that loads the handgun magazines. It works wonderfully! It makes a box of cartridges absolutely disappear! I have five magazines for my Ruger MKIII, it will fill all of them in fifteen seconds.

Not exactly what you need, but an idea. Perhaps something could be 3D printed for it.
 
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