Ammo factory - What's your personal best?

[CanFire]

What's the most ammunition you've cranked out in a single session and what high speed gear did you use? Some people have fully automated machines, some sweat for quality not quantity, and some just get a good pace going and then run out of components. It also depends largely on how much you have prepped (brass, primer tubes, etc.), but just for kicks, what's your personal best?

I once cranked out 120 rounds of .223 on a single stage press. I trimmed each case, weighed every charge, and checked every round with calipers. Even though the output was low, it was such a grueling session that I never really got into reloading. I hope to soon try a progressive press making 9mm pistol cartridges and increase my output.

 

[maynard]

I work with about 1500 cases at a time. All on a single stage. One operation at a time for all the cases. Resize 1500, clean 1500, trim 1500, weigh 1500, prime 1500.
Once all the case prep is done and primed and sitting in their MTM boxes, it is just powder and bullet seating. Here is where I start working 50 at a time.
I weigh every charge and trickle to as close as my digital scale will work. Then seat every bullet in the batch of 50. I think between throwing and weighing each charge and seating the bullet, it takes about 1/2 hour for 50 rounds.

 

[Claybuster]

What's the most ammunition you've cranked out in a single session and what high speed gear did you use?

500 12 gauge shells. MEC9000.

 

[Garand]

1,000 rds of .38 Special on a single stage.

 

[hoochie]

1000 9mm in an afternoon. Cleaned the cases, right through to packing them away.
You atart to get annoyed at having to reload the primer tubes.... slows you down!
I turn on the TV in my RR ( reload room) and just have at er sometimes.
I often stop at 500 rounds.. gives me something to do later....

Dhillon 550, carbide dies.

Rifle reloading is slow because I am so anal about it.
I usually do all my case prep first, then put the cases away so that when I am ready to reload them I just have to go from the priming stage....

 

[Jamie]

I try to load 500rds of 308 at a time

Jamie

 

[Auggie Doggie]

I did 1500 rounds of 9mm in a little less than 3 hours on a Lee Loadmaster. Was pretty tired afterwards!

Auggie D.

 

[Ice-Pick]

12 Gauge

Timed it, takes me 5m 40 sec. to build One box of shells for skeet, boxed and ready to go.
Using an old Mec Sizemaster.

 

[Jarlath]

In one session? About 500 .40S&W on an RCBS rock chucker.
Sized, Primed, Throated, Powder, Seated, Crimped.
All separate operations.

I usually have a few thousand ready to deprime/tumpled or finished tumbling/deprimed.

 

[boney]

I re-sized,deburred flash holes,trimmed, chamfered in and out,cleaned primer pockets,of 300+pieces of once fired 308win Norma match(that had been previously tumbled).Then wiped inside of necks with alcohol soaked q-tips to remove shavings and lube,wiped the outside of shells with alcohol(wearing vinyl gloves the whole time)blew them all out with compressed air and put them in heavy poly bags of 50 per bag and store them in Nabob coffee cans.All in a single session.Probably would have done more but my hands started cramping up.

 

[Colin]

So far my comfortable rate is 100 pistol rounds per hour.

 

[mikeelliot]

I clean brass some days, de prime other days, never really sit down and start from a fired case, to a loaded round in 1 session.

Im only loading for 5 calibers though.

RCBS rock chucker, beam scale.