Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, I'm going to show you a new way that I figured out how to load
Rival magazines. I love rival and it's no secret that that is probably my favorite ammunition type
but these mags and all mags have a big downside and that is loading them even though these have
no directionality to them and you simply shove them inside they are still a substantial amount
of work to sit here and load darts are of course a lot worse they take a lot more time because they
have to be in a certain direction and you have to be pretty careful about putting them in now a
lot of us have used these on the ground where you can simply push one ball in at a time and that's a
relatively good method but it doesn't really work when there's dirt grass or other contaminants that
might get into your magazine and jam your blaster now I can't take any credit for this idea that
I'm going to show you because my 16 month old daughter was the one that figured this out she
has recently taken to loading magazines full for me so I can test them and run them through the mag
wheel that I'm testing for another blaster and she actually can load them one at a time shove
them through and I happen to have this container which is a proton pack when I'm in the middle of
making so you can see I've got a hole cut here the other end is just the lid now she happened to be
sitting here playing with this and had an empty mag and was just pushing this idly up and down
and as you can see I've got balls coming inside the magazine and I took the magazine out of her
hand and I was like hazel you loaded four balls and pretty soon I realized really easy loading not
only can you load one magazine but I've also found you can do several at a time let's let's try three
and then we've got fully loaded mags now I am NOT gonna few around on the ground but I think with a
custom cut hole this would work really well now I've never figured this out before because I've
always got a bin shaped more like this where you don't have enough volume when you push
the mag down it simply pushes the balls away but this container which is about 6 by 10 has
enough holding power to keep the balls together so that when you want to load one of these this
is a 12 round mag usually 10 to 12 presses will get it fully loaded that was eight and we're at
12 so that's pretty pretty efficient so now what I thought we would do is let's see how
fast I can load this compared to loading by hand so I'm gonna do a little side-by-side here and
we'll do this in real time I haven't practiced this very much because I only figured this out
last night while playing with my daughter and so we will I'll do a little race against myself so
I've got six mags here I'm gonna load six mags as fast as I can and I'll put a timer up on the
screen and then I will do it again but you'll see it simultaneously with loading three at a time in
the bucket method let's give it a shot here so I'm gonna don't make this kind of convenience
I'm gonna put a bunch in this loose bin I've got my six mags this is the normal attempt I want
this to be as efficient as possible so I'm gonna kind of be doing two or three at a time shoving in
here and I like to use my pointer finger that's the method I've always used so three two one go
And done that's six mags so that's about as fast as I could load them I think maybe if
I was sitting down on the floor I could shave a few seconds off that but that's about as good as
it gets as far as I'm concerned so as you can see this method is really really fast and I have tried
you can do more than three depending on your whole opening you could do five or six and you'll get
you can just sit there and load them really really quickly I've been working on a an autoloader which
uses the jupiter mag well and a gear motor to push the balls up here along with the proton
pack but this is so quick and costs nothing now the one disclaimer I will make is that I don't
think this is going to work very well if you don't have a fairly large number of the balls themselves
I have yet to try this like in a smaller container but I think this size seems pretty decent and I've
got about a I don't know what that is maybe an eight inch stack of rival balls in there and it
works really really well thanks for watching let me know what you thought of this loading system
and whether you would try it yourself in the comments. I love doing anything I can to find
more ways to spend more time flinging foam and less time picking it up and loading it, and this
is definitely going to be my go-to loading method from now on. Until next time, I'm out of darts.