Reloading Time Saving Tips

[donttellthewife]

Before starting a run on a progressive press I decap and size a couple cases, decap size and prime a couple also, set them next to the press. If any thing goes wrong in the first two stations I just replace the cases with the ones set aside. Sometimes I'll come across a case that is berdan, crushed, crimped primer, crush a primer, ect.. By replacing the case it keeps everything running smoothly.


Even priming on a Dillon 650 I can feel if the primer didn't seat correctly, priming off a progressive press would kind of defeat the purpose of using it.

 

[jmorris]

process and reload in bulk. just remember to stop and check the finished product every so often.

 

[The Bushmaster]

I use a Lee Auto Prime II mounted on a Lee single stage press. When the lever is up a primer slides onto the priming punch. As the lever is pulled downward the primer is raised above the feed shute and out of harms way. I see no way for a primer being seated going off and setting the rest of the primers in the shute and tray off...I must have a better priming system the the rest of you. Over 20 years and I haven't set one off using this system let alone the whole tray...I also pay attention to what I'm doing and I believe this has contributed to the above record. I'm not in that much of a hurry in the first place...I always remember that I'm playing with explosives...

 

[wcb]

Bushmaster,

Your single stage press is your Ace of trump for safety; it's more progressive presses that have the one in 10 million chance of a primer tube explosion. Though I have a Hornady Lock-N-Load progressive and cant for the life of me see how that could happen based on the design of their feed system. It must be more of a risk on Dillon's or some of the others. I cant for the life of me see how more that one could go off in mine and that's almost impossible. None the less I treat every aspect with due respect as you do.