If you want to make some snide remark about it I'll give you a hint where you might find it next. Bend over.
Hmmm ...
Okay, I tried to make my comments obviously appear joking & tongue-in-cheek (and certainly not applicable to any real person, let alone you). I'll certainly apologize it you took offense ... whether you took it personally, or just in general.
You always that quick to be touchy?
Actually, I was unable to load magazines for a while, with or without a loading device, because of nerve damage. The odd thing is that although I miraculously recovered almost all use of my thumb & finger, I still can't quite control the magloader ring with my thumb as well as I'd like, and for some reason I find it easier to use my bare thumb, even though it tires faster. I had to adjust the way I used my strong thumb to accomodate my other one while loading magazines.
As I said in my earlier thread ... if you didn't stop reading it when you got upset ... I'm often surprised to find that people have bothered to buy these loading devices, but then don't use them for whatever reason. I remember once watching a young man having a hard time loading his Glock magazines, and when I suggested he might try a loader, he told me that he had the one that came with his pistol ... but just didn't use it.
I'm also frequently surprised that some people that ARE smaller statured, and admittedly lack sufficient hand strength to repeatedly load magazines, and who DO find it more than a little awkward to try and load rounds into magazines because of their long fingernails ... and who I've also made the suggestion that they consider trying a simple loading device ... don't. Just not that important to them, I suppose.
And no, before you ask, I've never joked or teased anyone who used one on the range.
And yes, I DO often ask to assist many folks that come through the CCW course, and either lack the hand strength & comfortable co-ordination to easily load their magazine between each string of fire ... or else suffer from some condition or disability which causes them problems doing it for themselves without holding up other shooters and causing themselves needless embarrassment. I particularly dislike seeing elderly men who fought in WWII appear needlessly embarrassed because they can't easily load their magazines, for reasons sometimes similar to yours ... when they can shoot very well indeed. Their service and their abilities require no embarrassment.
I also don't look in folk's range bags, and don't care what you carry in yours, or why.
You can look elsewhere if you want to get your back up ... or else realize I wasn't trying to be "snide" with you personally ... and accept my apology ... and relax.
After sometimes loading several hundred rounds into magazines during a day, and feeling my thumb become virtually raw & tender, I've often wished for one of the larger & faster devices that act like stripper clips. I'm not the only one that's had that thought at our range, either. Maybe someday ...
In the meantime, I still do it the hard way ... and try to make it into a Zen kind of thing ...