Sure, be glad to.
I don't really get impressed with the Youtube speed contests using feeders. For me, feeders, bullet or case, just free up the brain so I can focus entirely on what's important, powder charge. No more fumbling with loading the loader.
Case feeders are great, but sliding a case by hand into a case holder is a quick shove. The real bottleneck loading a loader, requiring more brain attention, is fitting a bullet on a case and guiding it into the seater! It's not fast as shoving a case in nor as simple. Seating a bullet with a crooked start is one thing that can go badly, but worse is mashing or pinching your fingers between the case and the die, when you are trying to be too speedy. That's an unpleasant experience most of us have done at least once.
painful!
Loading tubes with bullets is
one of the few things you can do in reloading not requiring 100% attention. Yes you do have to load them all the same direction, but during TV marathons, it's just as easy to pop bullets into tubes as pop popcorn in your mouth. Just don't do both (greasy hands)
The point is that you can have 100,500,1000 bullets loaded and ready before you start a loading marathon. When they are sitting there in the tubes, then setting up an electric collator (or buying one for that matter) just isn't needed. And set up like that the session goes just as fast or faster.
The trick is to plan......so you want to load 500 rounds tomorrow night? Then load 500 bullets in tubes tonight and the session will smoke! Most importantly..........your brain can focus only on powder charge and priming carefully. If you plan smart, load tubes on the night your favorite series are on, and reload ammo on the weekend.
You can always build a H.M. collator or buy one down the road if want, when you can.....to replace the tubes or fill 'em.
