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Old 01-20-2021, 08:14 PM
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But this setup is capable of turning out some really good reloads.

Been using this same equipment since 1980, (the stump is newer) and since I shouldn't be in a hurry when reloading anyway, (I'm obviously not) I'd thought I would show you how I check cases to insure that #1 there is powder in each case, and #2 that there isn't a double charge in there. (use a strong flashlight)

I'm using Bullseye and Unique, so I think the .40 S&W case would hold a double charge if I'm not careful.

OK, today's lesson is over and you may now be dismissed.



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I also put all my rounds in a block after throwing the charge. I visually check each charge to make sure it looks ok. I also weigh 3 rounds from each block, one from the beginning, the middle and the end. If there are any issues with the weight of the charge I dump them all and start over. Better safe than sorry. I have been loading for 40+ years and haven't had a kaboom yet.

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Old 01-20-2021, 09:13 PM
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I'm another member of the choir. I use a turret press but put all charged cases in a block and inspect them for powder with a flashlight. Then I complete the loading sequence. Have referred to the procedure as "semi automatic reloading".
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Old 01-20-2021, 09:42 PM
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Picked up a press like that at a garage sale years ago for a song: used it as my dedicated decapping equipment until I gave it to a friend who determined his Hornady L'n'L Progressive might not be the ticket for reloading rifle rounds in multiple calibers.

He found the single stage concept so practical he bought one of the new(er?) Hornady Iron Single Stage presses: said he just missed the Lock 'n Load features too much and promptly gave the RCBS to a neighbor just getting into reloading.

That makes AT LEAST four happy experiences with just one ol' RCBS press.

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P.S. I replaced that press with a Rock Chucker Supreme last year. I use the excellent L'nL bushings as well.
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Old 01-20-2021, 09:50 PM
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I do that with my rifle ammo and anything I load on my single stage. For my progressive press I use the RCBS lock out die and have a light on my press where I can visually check my pistol rounds as they load. If I double charge a 9mm or 45 acp load it is easy to see as it will fill near the top if not over.
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Old 01-21-2021, 09:27 AM
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I'm wondering and impressed how you sawed the block of wood square. I usually have one end beveled one way and the other end beveled the other way. Larry
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Nothing wrong with how ya do things to suit. Am still single stage, but powder thrower is elevated, and put shells into block before charging em. Then charge them all at same time and check. Except some of the rifle charges that get weighed
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Old 01-21-2021, 09:55 AM
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I’ve reloaded tens of thousands of rounds using this setup.
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Old 01-21-2021, 10:22 AM
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Looks Good to me. Reminds of what a very highly skilled experienced machinist told me years ago when I was just starting out in the shop.
80% operator 20% machine. (this was the days of all manual equipment)
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The whole setup and procedure look pretty normal to me... except I would have used a longer stump to get my working surface a bit higher. I have lower back problems that would be irritated by bending over that low for more than a few seconds.

OTOH, I wholeheartedly concur on the checking of powder level in the completed batch of charged cases before moving on to the next step. Loading blocks are our friends!

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My smaller volume loads are loaded on a single stage press, into a loading block. All my Rifle rounds are loaded on a single stage into a loading block. My 38, 9mm, and 45 acp get done on my Dillon. I can do 3X as much in the same time on the Dillon. But, when I only have 100 rounds or so to load of the other lesser used calibers they are done on the single stage.
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Every round I've reloaded since 1975 has been on my Herter's Model 3 single-stage press. I doubt that will ever change.
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Old 01-21-2021, 12:15 PM
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Started out with a single-stage press 49 years ago. Now I have 3 of them. I keep 2 mounted for use, 1 packed away. All 3 were purchased in slightly used condition for great prices (I think the RCBS RockChucker cost me $25, the RCBS JR and Lyman were each about $20).

My Lachmiller powder measure was purchased on close-out sale in 1974, under $30, and continues to work very well.

My Ohaus 10-10 scale came in the original box with manual and test weights. $25 in 1974.

I used Lee case trimmers (caliber specific, about $3 each) for years. Then I found a nice Lyman bench-mount trimmer with half-dozen pilots for $20.

About the only things I have always purchased new have been my reloading dies. At last count I have 22 sets, along with 6 Lyman M-dies.

For several years I was active in PPC competition requiring 3000 to 5000 rounds per season, and CMP service rifle requiring a couple thousand per year. Now retired, usually reloading 3000-plus per year in several calibers.

I still haven't felt the need for progressive equipment. While some folks spend their spare time watching TV I spend mine processing brass in lots of 500 to 1000 at a time (sizing, expanding necks, priming, ready to charge and seat bullets) or casting bullets a couple thousand at a time.

I own several firearms purchased new 25 to 40 years ago and never fired with factory ammo.

I always intended to get into shotgun reloading but never did so. When we moved 5-1/2 years ago I found that I had accumulated several 5-gallon buckets full of once-fired 12-gauge and 20-gauge, so I took those to the local club and made a couple of the guys very happy.
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..has been economy. I started with Lee Loaders and built equipment VERY slowly over time. I washed my brass in a colander. I used a Lee Beam scale. This has been so for 40 years. I didn't get a tumbler until a few years ago.
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I load 38 specials on a Dillon 650. Just finished up loading 4,000 rounds.
Timed myself several times and takes just over 5 minutes to load 100
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I load 38 specials on a Dillon 650. Just finished up loading 4,000 rounds.
Timed myself several times and takes just over 5 minutes to load 100
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So, how long do you think those 38s will last you...?

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P.S. That's a lot of rounds for "3 hours & 20 minutes" work...
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Nuttin' wrong with single stage reloading. Progressive or semi-progressive presses (auto-indexing turret) just don't fit my lifestyle. Not badmouthing progressives and yep I reloaded several thousand rounds on a friend's Dillon, I just have no use for one. I did have a turret press but disabled the auto-index feature and used is "semi-single stage". I now have a Co-Ax press which is a "fast" single stage, but still one task at time. Just like BRL40, I look in every case I charge with powder, even my .233 loads, and in over 40 years I have had only one squib and no Kabooms. I like reloading and any short cuts or "speed ups" just gets me away from the bench sooner, cutting short my fun...

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I have the same "Green" loading block and it serves me well.

Only problem now and then with the smaller 9mm cases, is when my big fat fingers mess up and they end upside down in one of the holes.
That when I have to find a pencil or some tool to get them retrieved.

Carry on.
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So, how long do you think those 38s will last you...?

Cheers!

P.S. That's a lot of rounds for "3 hours & 20 minutes" work...
I shoot cowboy action and several years ago it would be about one season.
Fewer matches now so probably over 2 years.
That 5 minute rate is everything going perfect from the time I start.
Got to add to that setting the machine up, primers, etc.
I never rush.....it is much faster to go slow and not screw up.
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...except I would have used a longer stump to get my working surface a bit higher. I have lower back problems that would be irritated by bending over that low for more than a few seconds...
I'm 63, and my back would be irritated too, but I sit on the floor on a pillow or some carpet to cushion my seat, and the back of my bed becomes a backrest if I wish to recline a little and take a break for a few.

I have pads under the 2X4 stabilizers? so I can slide that setup in any way I want so as to ease priming, loading, trimming etc.

Amazed so many of you do similar using single stage presses.

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A little slow and crude? I thought for a sec that I was being addressed personally!

Ah hahah...

I use a single stage press almost exclusively. I run a batch of cases through each step in the process sequentially. I'm just more comfortable with a single stage than a progressive. With that said, I've tried to like progressive presses. Back in the late 80's I bought a Dillon. I'm probably one of the few people to send a Dillon back and get a refund. I couldn't get it to work to my liking. Some ten years later, I bought a Hornady progressive and ended up setting it on the shelf gathering dust. Eventually gave it to a friend. I guess I'm a slow learner, or maybe the eternal optimist, but a couple years ago I took another run with a Dillon. I was shooting a lot of .45 ACP and getting weary of "slow and crude" loading. Yeah, it works. But it's taken a bit of fiddling to get it to the point where I like it. Even so there's a lot going on at once and I gravitate back to the single stage. There's a lot to be said for slow and crude, methinks.
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Interesting that the loading block is screwed down.

I load very similarly, equipment wise. I use a full size bench. I have that same press along with a Rockchucker, that same powder measure, though the Little Dandy is my go to 98% of the time. Even the same loading block.

Freehanding the Little Dandy I can charge 50 cases in about 60 seconds or so. Haven't timed it exactly so maybe it's 90. But it's quick.
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I loaded 19k rounds last year on my single stage. 10.5k 9mm, 3.5k .45 acp and 5k .223, so I don't see any problem with using a single stage.

Reloading is a hobby that helps fill my free time so I have no interest in trying to speed it up.
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I started with a single stage press, a Lee Challenger O-frame. I turned out plenty of 357 Magnum, 357 Magnum down-loaded to 38 Special, 9x19mm, and 45 ACP ammo. It was all safe, no squibs, no double charges, and accurate. The only reason I went to a progressive press was that I needed large volumes of 45 ACP for USPSA competition and practice. That allowed me to go from loading 200 rounds a day to 200 rounds in less than 2 hours.
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I'm 63, and my back would be irritated too, but I sit on the floor on a pillow or some carpet to cushion my seat, and the back of my bed becomes a backrest if I wish to recline a little and take a break for a few.

I have pads under the 2X4 stabilizers? so I can slide that setup in any way I want so as to ease priming, loading, trimming etc.

Amazed so many of you do similar using single stage presses.

"If it ain't broke..."
“Sit on the floor?” I’ve got you by nearly ten years, and although I used to spend a lot of time lounging on the floor until a couple of decades ago, I now find it more and more difficult to get up from the floor, especially after I’ve been down there for a while.

I was so pleased to be using my old TruLine Jr press for loading 32 S&W L, but I’m now tending to go more to my RCBS Jr since I’m doing batch loading one step at a time. Then again I’m accumulating the parts to convert my Dillon 550 to 32 since it’s emerging as the caliber I’m shooting the most. I just seem to be in another transition period for my techniques.

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Not a thing wrong with "Slow" when it comes to reloading ... Slow usually = Careful and Careful = Safe Accurate Loads .

The last time I looked no trophies are given out to the fastest reloader .
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“Sit on the floor?” I’ve got you by nearly ten years, and although I used to spend a lot of time lounging on the floor until a couple of decades ago, I now find it more and more difficult to get up from the floor, especially after I’ve been down there for a while.

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Interesting that the loading block is screwed down...
It's really not, the screw holes are slotted so I can remove and rotate the block 180° for the next step, the screws just help to keep the block in place during each procedure.

The bed is a sturdy affair, and I use my arm to assist me in getting my old fat bottom off of the floor when done.



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Just to give you a better idea of my reloading area, you can see that it is very simplistic but efficient.

My final reloading steps:

#1. Remove scale.

#2. Place left hand on corner of safe, right hand on corner of sturdy oak bed frame, and hoist your sorry carcass up off of the dang floor already!

Works great!

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I've had several progressive presses over many years but never really needed one. I've always gone back to my '60s Texan turret press for handgun ammo loading. Got rid of the progressives. If you're loading fewer than 15,000 or 20,000 round a year, there is not much need for anything more than the very versatile and inexpensive turret, especially if you like to do some load experimentation regularly. If lubed and cleaned once in a while, an old press of any kind will last a very long time.
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Who cares if its slow & crude, if it works for you, do it.
I still decap / size , expand, and load using an older Rock Crusher, single stage press, along with a Hornady manual powder dispenser and a digital scale to load each and every round one at a time. Yep its old & slow { so am I } method, and takes me a lot longer than most, but never had any issues. Do what works for you and what your comfortable with....I do , lol !
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