Kyle M.
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So I started out reloading back at the end of 2011 with a lee breech lock challenger press, I started out loading .45 colt then soon after added .45acp, .38 super, .40 S&W, .44 mag, .357 mag, .30-30, and .45-70. About six months later I moved to a lee manual index turret press for my handgun loading, and kept the rifle on the breechlock. I quit loading in early 2013 due to the components shortage and didn't resume until last week. The first thing I did was to set up my turret press for .40 S&W and I was loading somewhere around 50 rounds and hour at a nice steady pace. Monday night I decided to swap out the turret press for the single stage challenger just for the heck of it. I deprimed 100 cases, primed them with the lee hand primer, ran them through the expanding die with my lee pro auto disk powder measure on top, set a bullet in each case mouth in rcbs case loading blocks, then ran them through the seat/crimp die. After I got through the hundred I glanced up at the clock and to my great surprise it had only been a half hour since I had started. I loaded another 150 later that evening and 200 last night, whereas I was only doing 50 a night on the turret press. For some reason I just seem more comfortable with the workflow on a single stage, and I have definately decided not to buy a progressive. Anyone else here gone from a turret or progressive press back to a single stage to simplify things? Better yet is there anyone else out there that actually loads a fair amount of handgun ammo on a single stage rather than a turret or progressive press?