Lula damaged magazine?

[Alpha Suerte]

Noob question here: I just got a Lula magazine loader for my 9mm Kahr. As I was sitting here practicing loading a mag with snap caps and then stripping them out, I noticed that two caps started coming out when I would strip the first one out. This happened after, about, the 10th time loading it (bored at work). Is there any risk of putting this mag back in the gun and having something go wrong?

[morrcarr67]

I would think not. I have had that happen to me when I was removing rounds from magazines. By using your Lula or finger to remove rounds from the magazine does not replicate how the gun would do it so sometimes things like that might happen.

[Fractured]

Are you snap caps old?

And what caliber?

[Fractured]

Are you snap caps old?

And what caliber?

Nm, 9mm. I have used a lula for 3k+ rounds on the same magazines with no problems on my g17 (9mm)

[MossbergMan]

Some mags lose rounds. My Springfield 9mm mags (Mecgar is OEM) will strip a round out of the magazine when I remove it (loaded) from the gun. Tripp reseach magazines do not lose any rounds. Both magzines function in the gun as designed.
The true danger using an uplula loader is forcing a round down that is not fully to the rear of the magazine. Glock mags get crushed more easily than most steel mags in my experience.
If your magazines work in the gun, no worries. go to the range and "unload" a few my favorite way...pressing the trigger. As posted earlier we remove/strip rounds off the magazine by hand differently than how the slide does.

[Alpha Suerte]

Thank you all for the info, much appreciated. Feel more confident putting the mag in the pistol. Sadly, haven't made it to the range yet.

[JeremyS]

Yeah, you can't assume stripping rounds by hand while holding the magazine will produce the same results as the gun stripping rounds from the mag. Especially not with snap caps, which don't always slide on each other the same way real ammo does.