How fast do you reload?

[wbunning]

I count on an hour to make 50 rounds of pistol ammo on the single stage, from start to finish. I have a Lee Turret that I use in some cases and it is a bit faster. When I use the LNL, I can go a little faster yet, but I don’t trust any of my powder drops enough to not use a piwder cop die, and that adds up to more stations than are available. So I run my brass through the LNL first to size, prime and expand. Then the second run gets powdered, copped, bullet fed, seated and crimped. So, counting 2 passes, prob 100 an hour. I honestly don’t care about the production rate, but try to be as efficient as possible without sacrificing quality.

[wpod]

Around 200 rounds in about an hour on a Lee turret press.
I'm in no hurry.

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[blkside]

Single Stage .308 - 25-35 rounds of Precision Ammo
Turret - 125-150
650XL - 600+

[Ferrum]

Hold my beer... back in a minute.

[robert101]

I've never actually timed it and never will. It takes me much longer to set up the dies than to actually reload 100 rounds. Even with the toolheads for each caliber, it takes me about 30 minutes to set one up again. Reloading the rounds is not the issue.

[Lead Waster]

I bought some aluminum tubes and made some extra primer pickup tubes, so if they are all loaded up, it is easier to crank out the rounds, though I do look into the powder fill station.

[RestrictedColt]

Assuming there's nothing wrong with it, the drop will be way more accurate than what a powder cop would detect so the cop is mostly pointless. If you don't trust yourself to fully stroke the press and/or not double stroke it, that's a whole different situation.

I recently ran 1000 9mm 100-200 at a time over the course of a few days. Every time I rechecked the powder drop any changes were unmeasurable.

[RestrictedColt]

Hold my beer... back in a minute.

You'll be missed.

[bruce381]

650 no hurry 500-600 hour. Balls out for a short burst 100 in a 2-3 minutes

[RestrictedColt]

650 no hurry 500-600 hour. Balls out for a short burst 100 in a 2-3 minutes

I assume you have feeders, no way to do 2-3 min when manually feeding cases/bullets. But regardless, that's hauling *****.

[hambam105]

well yea, slowing down would have sped him up.

And you say Nay?

With the Dillions perhaps the more you spend the faster you can go?

I suppose I can reliably reload 500 to 600 rounds per hour on a Rock Chucker Single Press if I do not count case prep, set up & break down times, and have 3 or 4 other people help me slide the cases in and out of the universal case holder....and da da da de da.

[longrange1]

650 no hurry 500-600 hour. Balls out for a short burst 100 in a 2-3 minutes

id love to see a video of this...600 rounds an hour equals 1 round every 10 secs and sounds doable if everything is running smooth...but...100 rounds in 3 minutes is one round every 1.8 seconds...and 2 minutes is 1 round every 1.2 seconds...this is all based on if my math is correct.

im not saying it can not be done because i do not own a progressive press im just saying id REALLY like to see it done...that is without a doubt FAST!!

[RestrictedColt]

And you say Nay?

With the Dillions perhaps the more you spend the faster you can go?

I suppose I can reliably reload 500 to 600 rounds per hour on a Rock Chucker Single Press if I do not count case prep, set up & break down times, and have 3 or 4 other people help me slide the cases in and out of the universal case holder....and da da da de da.

[diveRN]

I've never kept a specific count. However, based on primer usage on the 650 loading pistol rounds, about 300/hour.

That includes checking a round every so often for OAL, reloading primer tubes, correcting for the occasional primer seating or case feed issue (upside down), refilling the case feeder, powder hopper, etc. It's a steady pace, but by no means is it hurried. Could go faster, but in my case, there's no need.

[RestrictedColt]

id love to see a video of this...600 rounds an hour equals 1 round every 10 secs and sounds doable if everything is running smooth...but...100 rounds in 3 minutes is one round every 1.8 seconds...and 2 minutes is 1 round every 1.2 seconds...this is all based on if my math is correct.

im not saying it can not be done because i do not own a progressive press im just saying id REALLY like to see it done...that is without a doubt FAST!!

Your math seems correct, and I too would like to see it happen. And I'd want those cartridges opened up and powder charges checked because it's likely that there would be some shortages. That's over twice the speed I was running and it seems extremely unlikely for it to happen. I could probably stroke the handle twice as fast as I was, but even if the case & bullet feeders could keep up, which is doubtful, and nothing else went wrong there would be a few other problems. I'd loose the ability to feel primers seat so I'd have to rely on faith that they're all primed properly. It's also likely that powder would spill from the cases being spun around so fast. It's also likely that the powder drop wouldn't have time to do a full dump which means short charged cases and possible powder spills. I was using small charges of a low bulk/high density powder (4.1 of W231) and even at my 6 minute pace I had a little bit of powder on the press, probably from cases coming out of the dropper tube while powder was still falling, and/or maybe from cases being jostled and tossing powder. It wasn't enough to worry about for plinkers, but at double speed it would probably be an issue. If it were bigger charges and/or a lower density powder it would be even worse.