juststarting wrote:Yeah, pistols would be different, I am more interested in rifles though, on a single stage ( since that's what I have).
pomemax wrote:juststarting wrote:Yeah, pistols would be different, I am more interested in rifles though, on a single stage ( since that's what I have).
I found out that if i Argue with the mrs on a Saturday after the range I can get 1000 9mm done on a sunday on a single stage press
thats depriming resizing sonic cleaning and batches of 400 and tumble drying them for 30m flareing and primming by hand then using the charge master and seating a pill from 8 in morning till 10 at night after I have deducted 1/2 hour for lunch and same at dinner time funny what you can do when left alone. ( put head phones on and listen to music as im doing it gr8)
On avarage i normally get to do about 2/300 a week different cals for bolt action.
I HATE DOING 9mm so I tend to leave till i have a few. next purchase is a dillon I think
brett1868 wrote:WayneO, if you find a time machine can you go back in time and kick my ass as well please...twice!! I did exactly the same thing, did 9mm on a single stage then bought a pair of Lee Pro 1000's before giving myself 2 uppercuts and buying the Dillon XL650. I've got 9 heads for it now and my only issue is that I can't keep up with its appetite for empty cases.
animalpest wrote:Hmmmm... let me see.........
All of my accurate rifles have tailor-made hand-loads built to order for their work. And the work and science that goes into making these consistently accurate is still a buzz after 35 years!
Mike
animalpest wrote:Hmmmm... let me see, I reload for my 5 different center-fire calibres that are used by my 6 professional shooters on permanent staff. Seems they are always running out of ammo and the job we have tomorrow needs more 222, 223 , 22.250, 243, 25.06, 308 or 375 ammo for some particular need, but never the ammo we have already loaded! (got fox loads, but not wild dog loads, or camel loads but not feral goat loads etc.)
Hand-loading ammo can be a chore when it needs to be done, or it can be when I enjoy working up a particular load that is accurate.
I don't reload like pistol shooters do. But maybe 100 rounds for a days/nights shoot would be enough. For that job.
Most of my rifles shoot handloads, with the exceptions being the 308's which may burn through a few thousand rounds in a week and reloading doesn't make sense when the animals are only 20-50m away.
All of my accurate rifles have tailor-made hand-loads built to order for their work. And the work and science that goes into making these consistently accurate is still a buzz after 35 years!
Mike
brett1868 wrote:This month I've loaded a few hundred rifle which is down on average but I've loaded just over 10,000 pistol rounds. Not hard to load big numbers using the Dillon when you can punch out 400-500 per hour. I've been buying 30kg lots of once fired brass which I lube, resize and wash ready to load as seen in the picture below. Saturdays are spent preparing the brass which is then loaded over 2-3 nights during the week depending on family commitments because they come first.
25kg of brass prepared and ready to load