Not going to lie, I used one for a few years for a low budget, night hunting rifle. Made it alot easier clearing the weapon wearing gloves. When I say gloves, I am talking -20 below, all night long gloves. They are thick, and hard to do anything. At the time, I could not find a good charging handle able to work without taking the gloves off, and the upper with side charger was less then 150 shipped so I rocked it for a little bit.

But now I used a extended charging handle.