Mag Loader Problem

[BlackHand1917]

I have a bad case of creeping arthritis in my thumbs. I used to love shooting auto pistols, but loading magazines has become like a torture session with the Japanese Army Kempetai in 1943. My Browning Hi-Power magazines aren't too bad. It's funny how JMB and his buddy Mr. Saive could design a gun it dosent take the strength of a gorilla to load in 1922. The last couple of years I qualified with the Glock 22 in Corrections before I quit was terrible. At any rate. A couple of days ago I bought a Butler Creek ASAP mag loader. Had a terrible time with it. It didn't like my SR-9 and .40 Stoeger Cougar mags. I did a little digging on the web and found it dosen't like pointy FMJ rounds, which is mostly all I shoot.I had an unpleasant Ruger Mk II style reassembly cussing session with the Butler Creek loader.
Does anyone know of a magazine loader that actually works with the above named guns? I am on the verge of selling both guns and buying a Smith and Wesson EZ. I don't want to, because I like both guns, especially the SR-9, which I consider an unappreciated gem.

 

[JTQ]

The typical "go to" mag loader, and the one I use, is the UpLULA

https://www.maglula.com/product/uplula-9mm-to-45acp

Brownell's https://www.brownells.com/shooting-...loader-us-flag-sku100042829-23962-259278.aspx

Top Gun Supply https://www.topgunsupply.com/search.php?mode=search&page=1&keep_https=yes

Hickok45 demonstrating it (he also uses it in most of his semi-auto pistol videos) from about a decade ago.

 

[edwardware]

I second the UpLULA magazine loader.

 

[rabid wombat]

Maglula / Uplula = great products!

https://www.maglula.com/

 

[Seedy Character]

I concur on Uplula

Can load 10 mags for 1911 in short time, no pain. 10yo grandson loads them, too.

 

[BlackHand1917]

Thanks gentlemen. I am going to get an Uplula.
I half figured out the Butler Creek product. You have have to pound the thing on the table with speed and alacrity, like Krushchev pounding the podium at a Central Committee meeting and when you do you have to keep aclose eye on the on the previous cartridge, that it is perfectly lined up or it's a no go. The blunt .40 cartridges do go in easier. Still, I going to get that Uplula product.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

Yep the Uplua is the way to go.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Up Lula x4

 

[doubleh]

Thanks gentlemen. I am going to get an Uplula.
I half figured out the Butler Creek product. You have have to pound the thing on the table with speed and alacrity, like Krushchev pounding the podium at a Central Committee meeting and when you do you have to keep aclose eye on the on the previous cartridge, that it is perfectly lined up or it's a no go. The blunt .40 cartridges do go in easier. Still, I going to get that Uplula product.

I bought a couple that have that problem . I bought them because they were smaller than my UpLula. They both reside in my "don't use it anymore box" now and it's back to the UpLula which works every time with little effort and fits all my different caliber magazines.