As my readers know, I do a lot of 9mm reloading to keep myself (and my son) shooting. It’s not quite the absurd levels that some competitive shooters do, but I can easily load 10k a year. One thing I’ve made a practice of doing is gauging every single round I load. This avoids a number of potential issues, and perhaps more to the point, gives me faith that the rounds I put in the gun will work every time.

Gauging rounds manually is slow. In fact, it’s about as slow as loading them in the first place. The Armanov Quick Loader fits on top of the Armanov “hundo-style” gauge to help get rounds in there more quickly. Does it work? Read on.

The Quick Loader is a 3D-printed funnel-like contraption that you put on the Armanov hundred round case gauges. Instead of plunking in the rounds one-by-one, you just dump a whole bunch into the Quick Loader, shake them a bit, and they go into the gauge… mostly.

The thing about making the Quick Loader work well is that you’ve got to put in a hundred rounds basically right up front. It doesn’t do all that much if you only put in a dozen and expect them to shake in. You have to dump 100+ in, and then it works pretty good.

As you can see above, it’s not quite perfect, but it’s a lot faster even when cleaning up the problems and putting in what didn’t quite make it in.

I think the only real critiques of it are:

1. Any remaining rounds in the funnel are a bit tricky to get out of there without spilling them out.
2. It would have been nice to have a funnel lid so I could shake a bit more aggressively. If I really went hard at it, I’d have a round or two escaping. Not a big deal.

If you load thousands and thousands of rounds a year, it’s easily worth the $25 just to save yourself the aggravation of manually inserting the rounds into the gauge. Two thumbs up from that perspective!