[Jmurman]

I am reloading a large number of 30-06 for my Garand.

How do you handle a large volume of ammo? Do you size/prime/load and seat in one step? In other words, if you have 500 to reload, do you do one step fro all 500 cases before moving on to the next step? Or do you break it down to 50 or 100?

[USSR]

Jmurman,

I do one step on all my brass before moving on to do the next step on all my brass. Steps:

deprime with universal depriming die
trim flash hole (done once)
uniform primer pocket
resize case
tumble brass
chamfer neck (done once)
reprime
add powder and seat bullet

Don

[ball3006]

except I tumble my brass before depriming/sizing. Tumbling media tends to stick in the flash hole and you have to dig it out if you tumble deprimed brass.....You only have to ream/size the primer pocket if it is crimped military brass. Civilian brass does not have a crimped in primer.......chris3

[Sunray]

Yep, with a single stage press do one step to all your cases and change dies. Have a bin of unprocessed cases on one side of the press and an empty one on the other. Use both hands to move the cases in and out of the shell holder. That is, in with one hand, do the operation and out to the processed bin with the other. Switch sides for the next step. Use loading blocks and a powder thrower to charge 'em then through the seating die and into whatever you're storing loaded ammo in. I like the plastic MTM boxes that hold 50 or 100 loaded rounds myself.
For 500 cases, I'd do one step one per evening. Assuming you're not loading on a rainy Saturday.
Full length resizing only for a semi-auto. I don't bother crimping for my rifle. Never had a need to and have never had an ammo problem not crimping.

[Steve in PA]

One step at a time here also, but never the whole shabang at once.

I'll break it down into how many I want to do at one time. Say I have 500 rounds to do, I may elect to do 100, 200, 250, etc. Very seldom do I do more than that.

I have about 1,500 pcs of .45acp brass resized right now. But I'll probably only do 100-200 at a time.

[1911user]

tumble all cases to clean.
spray lube on cases
dump cases into casefeeder
resize all cases
tumble again to remove case lube
swage primer pockets if once-fired mil brass
trim/deburr if needed
dump cases back into case feeder
progressively prime, powder, seat, then crimp until finished

If single stage, I would prime all, drop powder then seat a bullet immediately for all, then crimp as a seperate step (maybe). I don't do loading blocks and don't need to check any of my powder measures every 5 or 10 rounds.

[Ares45]

I size and case prep all at one time then bag them to load a hundred or 2 at a time.