15 Common Complaints About Loading Handgun Magazines

If you shoot regularly, you’ve probably muttered at least one of these under your breath. Loading handgun magazines is the least glamorous part of range day — and for a lot of shooters, the most frustrating. Here are the complaints we hear most often:

1. The last few rounds are extremely difficult to load.
2. Loading several magazines leaves my thumb sore.
3. New magazine springs are too stiff.
4. The feed lips scrape or pinch my thumb.
5. I can’t load the magazine to its full advertised capacity.
6. Double-stack magazines require too much thumb pressure.
7. My hands get tired during longer range sessions.
8. Arthritis or limited hand strength makes magazine loading painful.
9. Loading magazines takes too much time at the range.
10. Beginners often think they’re loading the magazine incorrectly.
11. Small magazines are difficult to hold while pressing rounds into place.
12. Cold hands make magazine loading even harder.
13. Repeated loading causes dents and marks on the thumb.
14. I often stop one or two rounds short because the spring becomes too difficult.
15. I enjoy shooting, but I hate loading the magazines.

Notice a theme? Almost every one comes down to the same thing: fighting a stiff magazine spring with your bare thumb. The more rounds you add, the harder the spring pushes back — and your thumb pays for it.

That’s exactly the problem the Super Thumb was built to solve. Each model is made for a specific magazine class, so it seats cleanly and presses rounds in for you — no pinched thumbs, no stopping a round or two short, and far easier on tired or aching hands. It’s the original thumb-saving loader, backed by a lifetime warranty.

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