Actually, it’s a lot easier than you think! You see the trick is not to load like you see in all the vids when ppl are loading one single pellet at the time dropping it in all by itself one by one like you would on a large FX magazine with a removeable plate. What you really want to do with a multi layer speedloader is to have the toplayer open ONLY (by turning the second layer so the pellets will not fall through to the bottom.)
Now cup the top layer with your thumb and index finger to form a little round cavity and sprinkle a small batch of pellets on top of the loader. Shake a bit so they will fall in.
Most of them (like 80 or 90%) will fall heads down, as they should. A few will fall in heads up. This can be easily seen as all the pellets are in the top layer only.
Now use your fingers of both hands to close the holes where the pellets are aligned correctly. (Heads down) Turn the loader over so the incorrectly aligned pellets will fall out back into the pellet tin, then insert those few empty holes with a pellet One by one (which normally only happens to a few that were not filled correctly).
Next make sure the pellets cannot fall out through the bottom, and then rotate the second layer so the pellets will fall from the top layer into the bottom layer. Now close off the bottom layer by rotating the layer above the bottom layer.
Next close off the second layer again, cup your thumb and index finger around again and sprinkle som more pellets in. Repeat the steps and you will have now filled the layer above the bottom layer. Close the layer above that one and close the second layer again and repeat the sprinkle process Until all layers are filled.
It’s a terrible long read, but doing it takes very little time to fill a whole 40 pellet speedloader, less than the time to read the whole instruction above! I produce the 40 pellet capacity speedloaders myself, so I have spent quite some time to perfect the loading process too.
The thumb/index finger cupping and pellet sprinkling method also works perfectly for any round magazine that is or can be open from the top, (like the new Daystate/Brocock magazines, or the FX Wildcat MK1 magazines)
Lastly the greatest tip I got from a post here in this forum (sorry I don’t remember who posted it, but you know who you are!) is when you have a Leshiy2 in .22 and use a speedloader: Put a black pellet retaining plate for .25 on the mag. Since you have the speedloader you’ll keep the mag in the L2 at all times, and when it’s time to reload, simply open the gun, and put the speedloader ONTO THE MAG WITH THE BLACK RETAINER STILL IN PLACE! Now release 8 pellets to reload and behold…the .22 pellets will fall right THROUGH the retainer plate and INTO the magazine!
Now close the gun and the pellets are retained in the magazine! (Not by the retaining plate (as we just saw that them pellets fall through) but by the closed gun itself. (Yes the only ”drawback” is that the pellets are not retained when the stock is folded, so if you need to have it folded when you have the mag loaded you either need to keep the gun pointed down, or use a .22 retainer)
The beauty of using a retainer a size bigger than the pellets is of course that you can skip the ever annoying magnet to retainer to pull it off and after loading don’t forget to put the retainer back in place part)
Voila, enjoy!
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