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Originally Posted by mosquito
Reloading for rifle and pistol are two complete different animals. You need a lot more equipment to load rifle than pistol. For rifle, you have to tumble the rounds first, then they should be single staged sized and deprimed (after lubing) then back in the tumbler to get the lube off, then trimmed to length, then deburred inside and outside, then primer pocket swagged and/or uniformed and then flash hole reamed. After that, you can go to the progressive press and prime (unless you hand prime beforehand) powder drop and seat the bullet!
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To clarify....
" then primer pocket swagged and/or uniformed and then flash hole reamed" need only be performed once on the brass.
As for trimming.....my .223 brass does not stretch enough during each firing to require trimming each time I reload it. If you really want to all but eliminate the trimming step, use the X-Die resizing die from RCBS. It requires a one time trimming step, just like swagging the primer pocket or reaming the flash hole.
That being said, the brass prep is more time consuming for rifle caliber brass than it ever is for handgun caliber brass....no doubt about it.