vinh from United States, VA Public Profile

This is the best speed loader I’ve found for AR mags. It handles both loose rounds and strips. Heck of a lot faster than loading one round at a time by hand.

I purchased this expecting it to fit out-of-the-box on my Savage Axis long action rifle since that model has a round receiver. The mount itself does align very well with the round receiver, but only two of the four mounting holes on the DNZ mount lines up with the four factory-drilled holes on the Savage Axis. My fix was to mount the scope mount to the rifle using the two front mounting holes and then drill and tap 2 new holes on my rifle's receiver. I had to purchase the right drill bit and tap size as the mounting holes on the Savage rifle is of a thread size that is common only in the firearms world (8x40). I also had to purchase new mounting screws as the ones that came with the DNZ scope mount did NOT fit the factory-tapped mounting holes on the Savage rifle.
Despite all the hassle (and I realize some gun owners may have to go to a gunsmith to do what I was able to do at home with some hand tools), but I was happy with the result and thought it all rated 4 stars overall.

This scope mount doesn’t fit the Savage Axis right out of the box. It required drilling and tapping two new mounting hokes on the barrel of the rifle as only only two of the four mounting holes on the mount could be lined up at a time with the factory drilled holes on the rifle. However, with a bit of drilling and tapping, the mount does fit properly on an Axis and provides the 29moa cant that I needed for long range. Quality is very nice.

I was hesitant to try out this Gideon red dot because of all the naysayers dissing the fact that Gideon red dots are made in China, that they’ve copied the designs of other more proven red dot brands, and that they don’t have an established track record. My doubts were all disproven after mounting this and shooting with it on my cheapie Tisas PX9. The red dot was very easy to mount—its RMR footprint allowed me to mount it directly to my PX9 with no additional plate or adapter required, and it co-witnessed perfectly with the built-in iron sights on the weapon. Battery compartment is on top, so it was easy to install the new battery that came in the box. Zeroing was super easy, and the red dot held zero through hundred of rounds, plenty of racking, field stripping of the gun, and just general handling at the range. I chose the green dot because of my and my son’s astigmatism, and even on the close to lowest setting, the green dot was very easy to pick out in dim and bright light. Controls were easy to use and intuitive. The price is perfect to go with my also-cheap-and-very-undervalued PX9 with the 5” threaded barrel. Very good value in my opinion.

This speed loader works very well for loading loose rounds into 5.56/.223 mags, but it requires some gorilla efforts to get it ready to use the first time. The first one I ordered and received from OpticsPlanet had to be returned because despite even using a hammer and a punch tool, I just could could not get the tray cover to open or even budge with taps from a hammer and punch tool, so it was useless for loading loose rounds. I ordered a second one, thinking the first one was defective, and the tray cover on the second one was also very tight—but I was able to eventually pry and slide it open using a large flathead screwdriver between the gap between the bottom edge of the cover and the main body. Once I was able to slide the cover open, it was still very, very tight, but it was openable. So I sprayed some DuPont dry lubricant on all the surfaces where parts mated together, and it has worked wonderfully after that. Smooth and quick loading of bulk 5.56 and .223 rounds into all my mags.

One tip that’s not so easy to pick out from all the YouTube videos is that for loading loose rounds, the loader has to be held at an angle such that the small (pointy bullet) ends of the rounds all sit naturally in the groove meant for the small end of rounds. At first, I made the mistake of trying to let the rounds rest against their primer side in the loader, and that just did not work and even ended in a couple of dented round casings.

Overall, I’m happy with my purchase. I’ve deducted

I wish I had found this earlier.. I have several bulky torque wrenches and torque screw drivers for various tasks, and have always needed one at the most inopportuned instances while away from my home equipment. This and it’s matching red torque adapter both fit nicely in my travel tool case and handles every single job I’ve thrown at them so far—from tightening sight screws on pistols and rifles to them putting just the to guy t amount of torque on sensitive electronic builds. Super happy I’ve found this brand.

I’ve literally tried dozens of different designs and brands of speed loaders since I first got my Glock 19 about 30 years ago. None of them were satisfactory: either just barely faster than bare hands loading or just an unreliable mess that required hours of practice to adapt to the loader! This is the first speed loader I’ve ever tried tgat actually reliably loads my flock magazines as well as my Sig P226 mags quickly and reliably—much, much faster than with bare thumbs and reliably every single round every time! Besides the just perfectly functional design, the build quality appears very well made of excellent quality materials and solid (lots of mass and not flimsy) construction… actually much better plastics and thicker materials than the stock Glock “speed” loader that came original in the box with my Glock gen 2 from the mid 1990’s. I’m going to get another for my son.