wally
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Weather has been great and temperatures have been such I can comfortably be out in the garage reloading whenever I have an extra hour or two to kill.
Having had some recent 500 round steel plate outings and reloading the empties shortly thereafter (usually this time of year I'm about finishing up reloading all the rounds I'll need for the up-coming 8 month summer when its just to hot and humid to be out in the garage reloading) got me thinking, if this was the normal situation, would I spend more time shooting or reloading?
With a sample of three sessions and near perfect temperatures (no sweating even with significant activity) I've come to the conclusion its about equal time spent shooting and reloading for me.
Takes me about 1.5 hours to shoot up 500 rounds at the steel plates (pre-loaded magazines for three or four different guns) and pick up the brass. It then takes about the same time to crank out 500 rounds on my Dillon XL650 including the time filling and emptying the vibratory tumblers, filling primer tubes, case feeder & powder measure, and cranking out the rounds. I just dump the completed rounds into .30 cal GI ammo cans. None of this is done with any sense of urgency, its a hobby, I'm retired and don't need to finish any of these tasks to any deadline, just going along at an enjoyable pace.
Just curious how this works out for other high volume pistol shooters.
Having had some recent 500 round steel plate outings and reloading the empties shortly thereafter (usually this time of year I'm about finishing up reloading all the rounds I'll need for the up-coming 8 month summer when its just to hot and humid to be out in the garage reloading) got me thinking, if this was the normal situation, would I spend more time shooting or reloading?
With a sample of three sessions and near perfect temperatures (no sweating even with significant activity) I've come to the conclusion its about equal time spent shooting and reloading for me.
Takes me about 1.5 hours to shoot up 500 rounds at the steel plates (pre-loaded magazines for three or four different guns) and pick up the brass. It then takes about the same time to crank out 500 rounds on my Dillon XL650 including the time filling and emptying the vibratory tumblers, filling primer tubes, case feeder & powder measure, and cranking out the rounds. I just dump the completed rounds into .30 cal GI ammo cans. None of this is done with any sense of urgency, its a hobby, I'm retired and don't need to finish any of these tasks to any deadline, just going along at an enjoyable pace.
Just curious how this works out for other high volume pistol shooters.