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Too late, 300ish in the tumbler as I type this
I knew this day would come...
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I loaded 38/357 for a decade and a half on a lee 4 hole. 180 rounds per hour. Just as good as any single stage for quality, regardless of what some people say.
Now I load on a Loadmaster. Even with its 'personality', I'm still 4-500 rounds per hour, and its half the work of running the 4 hole. About 1/10 the work of a single stage.
Now I load on a Loadmaster. Even with its 'personality', I'm still 4-500 rounds per hour, and its half the work of running the 4 hole. About 1/10 the work of a single stage.
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Load 100 and hour. Watch the birds and squirrels. I can sure tell who's retired or isn't working right now.
Or who doesn't hardly shoot. And that ok!
I'm the only one that posted about loading at 500 and hr in this thread. There has been many comments made about that. That isn't that fast on a good progressive press for pistol rounds if you know what your doing. It's not stopping to look out the window every five minutes either.
It's very easy to load really good ammo at that speed.
These came out of one of my batches I ran with my ABLP but it comes at a cost.
I have to make my time count. The resizing die I use, alone costs what the press cost.
I prep the brass meaning it is deprimed, cleaned and reprimed ahead of time.
When I load I'm running primed and prepped brass.
I work 12 hour days 4-5 days a week, plus holidays and weekends when they are on my schedule.
I like to shoot!
I shoot 100 rounds a week of 9mm and .357mag every week I can. Not always every week but most of them. That's over 10k a year for just pistol.
If I had to use a single stage of any kind to load my rounds with, I would quit reloading and buy factory loads. That is why I bought the progressives to begin with. I was a slave to a single stage and that doesn't work for me. I was developing elbow problems from trying to load all pistol and rifle loads on the single stage.
Now,
When I load 9mms I load usually 1200 minimum per batch. Sometimes I will do more than one batch a day depending on how desperate for time I will be in the following weeks.
I have two years to go till I can retire. Whether I retire or not I will determine when the time comes.
Until I join the ranks of the "People that Time Forgot" I will continue to load the way I do because I can keep up to my demand easily that way and load quality ammo doing it.
It just takes a little planning ahead.
Or who doesn't hardly shoot. And that ok!
I'm the only one that posted about loading at 500 and hr in this thread. There has been many comments made about that. That isn't that fast on a good progressive press for pistol rounds if you know what your doing. It's not stopping to look out the window every five minutes either.
It's very easy to load really good ammo at that speed.
These came out of one of my batches I ran with my ABLP but it comes at a cost.
I have to make my time count. The resizing die I use, alone costs what the press cost.
I prep the brass meaning it is deprimed, cleaned and reprimed ahead of time.
When I load I'm running primed and prepped brass.
I work 12 hour days 4-5 days a week, plus holidays and weekends when they are on my schedule.
I like to shoot!
I shoot 100 rounds a week of 9mm and .357mag every week I can. Not always every week but most of them. That's over 10k a year for just pistol.
If I had to use a single stage of any kind to load my rounds with, I would quit reloading and buy factory loads. That is why I bought the progressives to begin with. I was a slave to a single stage and that doesn't work for me. I was developing elbow problems from trying to load all pistol and rifle loads on the single stage.
Now,
When I load 9mms I load usually 1200 minimum per batch. Sometimes I will do more than one batch a day depending on how desperate for time I will be in the following weeks.
I have two years to go till I can retire. Whether I retire or not I will determine when the time comes.
Until I join the ranks of the "People that Time Forgot" I will continue to load the way I do because I can keep up to my demand easily that way and load quality ammo doing it.
It just takes a little planning ahead.
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