I keep most of my 5.56 ammo on stripper clips. While I could use spoons to load from strippers, the StripLula is faster and easier. And the StipLula lets me drop in up to 10 loose rounds and use it to load them without clips.
You can use that without stripper clips, but it takes nearly as long to line everything up as to just push the rounds in. However, it still saves your thumbs, so it’s helpful, but not amazing.
Stripper clips and spoons. Spoons are small and fit anywhere. My thumbs don’t mind because thumbs are for rookies. I use a fixed object if I need it, such as a tables edge or the rifle itself if in the field.
i just take a handful of rounds out a bucket and jam them right in the magazine using a balled up fist, ain’t got no time to being putting one bullet in at a time
I have one of these, or almost exactly one of these. Got it at a gun show. It works. I only have stripper clips to compare it to, so…for me, it’s faster, unless maybe the stripper clips are pre-loaded. Not sure then.AR15/M16 Mag Loader - Second Amendment Personal Defense (btw link is for reference-I never heard of this company before).