Too many gophers, not enough hands to reload?? Perfect Speedloader Solution!!

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Hey guys,

Not sure if anyone here is using them, but I've found what I think is the perfect speedloader solution to my semi-auto reloading problems. There's nothing worse than watching gophers run around the field in front of you while you painstakingly push ammo into your mag. 10 rounds in those rotary style mags is just not enough. Those 110 round drum mags are a nightmare to load, and add just a LITTLE bit of weight to your rifle. Butler Creek mags are cheaply made and don't hold a candle to the prohibited BX-25 mags. So what's the solution you ask?? I think I've found it....

http://www.hcmags.com/

Check them out. Beautiful little kit I just found. Comes in a soft material suitcase, has your drop and shake speedloader, 6 stripper clips (one in the mag) and a 25 round mag that is a beauty to run. Not cheaply made, on par with the BX-25 mags in quality. Easiest way to run it is to get your strippers loaded before you hit the field. They just pop right into the back of your mag and you're ready to go!! I picked one up at a gun show and I absolutely love it. Tested it out in the gopher patch this weekend with my Magnum Research. Didn't have any feed issues at all. Just takes a little practice running the strippers into the mag.

Look out Gophers!! No longer will I be pulling my trigger with a bloody finger from reloading.

There's also some great YouTube tutorials at the bottom of their page on how it works and how to operate it. Have a look!!


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Very old news. BC steel lips work just fine and have been for many years. Carry more than one magazine, like say 5 to 10 and there is no issue.

TW25B
 
I have 2. They're jam-o-matic junk.

There's a reason why HiCal and others keep putting them on "super special blowout" prices - word has gotten around about their "quality" and so they sit on the shelves gathering dust.
 
Huh, weird. I must just keep getting the defective Butler Creeks, either that or they've gone down in quality over the years. I have to replace them every season. Haven't had one jam with the HCMag version yet, granted I've only had it out in the field about 4 times so far. I'll update over the summer on how she runs. I like that they come with the tools to take the mag apart and clean it out if it gets gunk inside.
 
Guys with "defective" BC mags. Curious if you have ever tried cleaning them? Also a lot of errors have to do with the mag not sitting properly. A Kidd extractor solved all my issues. I paid $7.50 each for my mags. Thinking cause the guy hated them lol. Mount your mag and then see if you have wiggle.
 
1- You should invite friends over instead of taking on that task by yourself or;

2- Bolt actions and hand load everytime, you have a 555 magazines in a box form made by Winchester :p


Enjoy gopher shooting you lucky bastard, I miss the Prairies for that
 
Sounds like a spray and pray scenario. Too many shots and too few gophers hit. Guess patience acquired with old age helps with accuracy. I rarely take a semi out shooting gophers. Did that as a kid, Gevarm with a 20 rnd mag.
 
I still love taking my old Remington Nylon Model 11 out with open sights to the field. Never had an issue with it, and it shoots anything I put down the pipe. But my Magnum Research is just too fun!! It's also a lot more accurate and at longer ranges. But it always seems like I run out of ammo in a 10 rd mag right when 3 gophers come up in my scope haha. I'm not saying the HCMag kit is a necessity at all. But it does make hitting the field with a semi-auto a lot more fun and easy on the fingers (and harder on the wallet because ammo seems to run out faster for some reason...hmmm). As for the BC mags, I always make sure the mag is seated properly (or as much as I possibly can by pushing it in and testing for wiggle) before closing the action and firing. And I have tried cleaning them before, but it's quite a pain and it didn't really do anything. Just kept jamming every 2-3 rounds. The HCMag kit comes with tools to take the mag apart and clean the inside properly. I'm not saying don't use Butler Creek, if yours work for you, that's great!! I'm just saying, the HCMag tac pack is a blast and I love the stripper clip method.
 
Essentially gave up on semi's for gophers. Still have a marlin 60 but the CZ's and Savage bolts get waaay more time on them in the fields.

Long range with a 17 is much more fun than spray and pray. (much praying need with a 10/22)
 
I have a 10/22, Marlin Papoose, Marlin 795... The Marlins are more accurate than my 10/22

But if I want to do some serious work on the gophers?

Either my CZ-452 or Cooey 600 come out. Shoot less, hit more.

And my reference to "crap" mags was about the HC3R ones, not the Butler Creek ones. The BC mags seem to work Ok, the HC3R ones... Notsomuch.
 
Well, to each his own I guess. You like the BC's, I like the HCMags. We each think the other one is crap haha.

And bolt actions will never lose their place in the field. Tons of great and accurate shooters in bolt action. Very little to go wrong with them too!!

But semi's are just....fun! There's just something about being able to send 3 bullets in 2 seconds at a target that I find enjoyable.
 
TDizzle said:
Well, to each his own I guess. You like the BC's, I like the HCMags. We each think the other one is crap haha.

And bolt actions will never lose their place in the field. Tons of great and accurate shooters in bolt action. Very little to go wrong with them too!!

But semi's are just....fun! There's just something about being able to send 3 bullets in 2 seconds at a target that I find enjoyable.
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Oh, for sure, to each their own. And I didn't say I don't use the semis on gophers. Over the course of the season, if I own it, and it throws lead, it'll take a gopher or two (and that includes the Mosins and SVT-40). But for parking in place, and spending the afternoon clearing everything within a 75-100yard radius of a single spot? A good, scoped, bolt 22. Partly for accuracy (because, they are), and partly just for the classic feel of working a bolt action.
 
My 2 semi auto Marlins are pretty darn accurate even compared to my Savage Heavy Barrel bolt gun. I prefer the semis for gophers. 10 round mags are fine. 15 round tube feed are great too.
 
I bought, tried, and threw in the garbage an HC magazine. It looked like a good system but I couldn't get through 5 rounds in a row without a failure to feed.
 
I only hunted gophers for the first 40 years with a Cooey single shot until I found a Marlin auto I could buy and then I won a 10-22 at the Provost F&G club dinner and that became my go to gun. The Cooey is still mt tack driver and probably always will be and who ever get's next will have a rifle that shoots where it's told too.
 
My gopher gun (again, as a displaced prairie boy I miss it badly) is a 10-22, bedded, free-floated bull-barrel, Clark trigger. One of the last times out, using BC 25s, I was averaging 23 gophers per 25 rd magazine with Federal bulk pack. Rare misfeeds, usually because of sloppy insertion of the mag. (Operator error).
 
I do miss my days in Saskatchewan near Regina dusting gophers with my .22!

In those days (ca. 1975) I was using a CIL/Anchutz Model 125 with a 4x Weaver scope, DEADLY gopher medicine!
 
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