Reloading on a single stage press - timed 200 rounds

[45ACPUSER]

I used to mass load with a shooting buddy on a single stage press. We cleaned the brass a head of time. We would churn out a good 1K in an evening. Once the brass was processed and cases primed we would get a few loading blocks charged, and then we could seperate chores. The rate of production increased!

Loading 38's was fast.

 

[45ACPUSER]

Some good tunes! Some Iced Tea. I can reload all night!
The Giraud is quiet enough to watch a movie while trimming 223 brass. It is all good time! A break for loading pick up tubes. Good for a good reloading session!

 

[Gewehr98]

I'll be darned!

I'd never thought to set a stopwatch and time my ammo production rate, either single-stage or progressive. Who am I competing with, myself? Shee-it, I'm retired, no race to the ammo can for me, and nobody in particular I need to impress on an Intarweb forum.

The amount of time it takes me to finish a given batch of ammo on either my Huntington Compac handheld press, my Hornady single-stage, or one of my Dillon progressives is (surprisingly enough) also the exact amount of time I needed to get it done, no sooner, no later. Go figure!

I love Ken Waters, and I'm very sorry about his 7-30 Waters cartridge and the Winchester Model 94, but I'll continue to tumble my brass, thank you very much. It's kind of like putting on clean underwear every morning, ya know?