A few questions about repeating crossbows

[Wyvern76]

I'm playing a thaumaturge, and my weapon of choice (not an implement) is a hand crossbow, so of course I took the Ammunition Thaumaturgy feat. I'm thinking about upgrading to a repeating hand crossbow (and taking the Weapon Proficiency feat for it), but there's a couple of things I want to check first.

1) Does Ammunition Thaumaturgy work with repeating crossbows? In other words, can I swap out the magazine while still holding an implement if I have the feat? I *think* the answer is yes, because a) the magazine is listed as "Category: Ammunition" and b) the description of repeating crossbows says that changing the magazine is "the same as Interacting to reload," but it'd be nice to have confirmation of that.

2) The equipment listing for a repeating hand crossbow magazine indicates that it comes with five bolts, but once it's emptied, can you refill it with regular bolts? And if so, how long does that take?

[breithauptclan]

1) I would think so too. Because of that wording in the Repeating trait that the three actions to reload are the same action as other Reload actions (Such as a heavy crossbow that needs two Reload actions to reload).

There may be arguments against it, but your game's GM is who will have the final word on it.

2) I am not sure that it is specified. I would do it as one Reload action for each bolt loaded into the magazine.

[Themetricsystem]

I agree with the above.

I believe for all intents and purposes this should never be a problem for item #1.

As for #2, that doesn't seem to be spelled out explicitly but I think the only reasonable interpretation of this would be to provide one Reload action per bolt.

[nicholas storm]

You probably want to get a shootist bandolier to reduce the reload time to 2 actions

[Tactical Drongo]

Depending on the build of the Magazine I would say it's either reload or an out of Combat thing
With 3 magazines you should be able to last most combats