GVN from United States, WV Public Profile

Follow-up on previous review.
Tippman finally got back to me and helped me fix most of the problems. Still a little problem but it is now acceptable. Still having a round or two damaged in a couple magazine loads, but is working most of the time with both M&P 15/22 magazines and Chippa magazines, which they don't list as being compatible, but they work the same as M&P magazines and load the same with the Tippman speed loader.

Hole for the feed ramp is small and hard to see so you have to look carefully.

Happier now with the Tippmann Arms Speed Loader.

I watched several videos before receiving my unit. I saw how easy it was to load magazines so I bought one.

After receiving my unit I proceeded to load several magazines as per instructions. At first several round went easy then it got harder to crank the handle which I contributed to being new so I loaded a few more rounds. When it got extremely hard to turn the crank I stopped and installed a different magazine. Trying to load this magazine it went the same way so I stopped with this magazine also.

After unloading the magazine I found several badly damaged rounds with one having the projectile removed. I also noticed that several of the rounds were not staggered properly. Today I tried again with the same results. I tried going a lot slower than in your video and when it got harder to crank I shook the unit just to see if that would clear the problem but it didn’t.

The ammunition I used is Remington and the magazines are S&W 15/22 .22LR 25 round and a .22LR Chippa Firearms Co. magazine 25 round both almost new and load easily by hand. S&W magazines are stated that this unit would load.

Having following the instructions and videos I am inquiring if you think that I may be doing something incorrect in loading or if I have a defective loader?

I tried to contact Tippman about this problem as maybe I received a bad unit but have never received any return contact from them. Bad product support is another reason I would not recommend this unit.

So I have a ~$80 paper weight.