Hand held caseprep?

[canmic]

I am getting to reloading 9mm because I shoot so darn much of it. I had an idea and I figured that if it is doable someone on here would know

Each evening I sit and watch TV with wifey and I was thinking that I could use that time to deprime and maybe resize and prime 9mm cases

Is there a hand tool for this? Don't have a great place for a big press in the den.

I would do the loading part elsewhere with a press and be paying much closer attention, obviously, but I thought I could spend less time in the garage if I got the cases all ready beforehand

Thoughts?

 

[cereal83]

Something like this might work with the proper die on it. You can resize and reprime in one swoop. I had one of these and you need some big muscles to do it with your hands. I usually had to put one handle down on the work bench and then lean on it.

http://leeprecision.com/breech-lock-hand-press.html

 

[GreenBob]

Not sure what your budget is (if any) but here are some ideas. Find a cheap old press (or new) and put it on a portable bench. This way you can do your reloading in front of the t.v, doghouse, outside, etc.

Cheap option:

Expensive option:

more ideas/links:

http://bfy.tw/6txY

 

[BCRider]

How much is "so darn much of it" anyway? That Lee "nutcracker" hand press is going to be pretty slow because of the need to use two hands for nothing else but closing and opening the press. There is also the issue of where all the primers you pop out are going to go. And the casings that slip from your fingers and end up down the back of the cushions. Reloading is not a neat and tidy process. And reloading with a hand press like that makes the scattering of primers almost a certainty. At least with one of the better bench mounted single stage presses they have some form of ejected primer control.

Plus the fact that even when cleaned the spent primers still have traces of the compound which are best controlled. So doing this on the couch or in your favorite Lazyboy chair is not a wise idea. Table mounted or hand held the press and you really need to be in an area which can be swept up and wiped down easily for health as well as tidiness reasons.

I'm a bit of a fan of even loading handgun ammo on a single stage. But even I have my limits. A well organized single stage setup will allow you to start with clean brass with primers in place and load around 150 to 170 per hour in little batches of 50 at a time. Doing it the way you are considering with a hand tool would reduce this to more like 70 to 80 per hour by the end of all the processes. Less if you manage to lose many of them down the cracks in the cushions.

Frankly if you want to load in the same room so you can still converse in some limited way and just be there for companionship I'd strongly suggest something more like the compact setups shown in Greenbob's post. And on top of that I'd also suggest that you set it up off to the side so your constantly moving arms are not distracting to wifey as she's watching her favorite show. Even so you'll want to run the press and manage the brass in a slower and measured pace to hold down the minimal but still annoying noise that would occur even on a single stage running at full tilt. But you should still manage to run off around 120 per hour.

If you don't mind buying a Dillon square deal or 550b as shown in that last picture then even running in "silent mode" you can produce around 250 rounds per hour I'm thinking. In full speed mode I can easily produce 350/hr on my own 550b. But that's only with a lot of brass jingling and bullet bumping. So I think that running in silent mode would likely reduce that by around 100/hr.

 

[vinver]

I am getting to reloading 9mm because I shoot so darn much of it. I had an idea and I figured that if it is doable someone on here would know

Each evening I sit and watch TV with wifey and I was thinking that I could use that time to deprime and maybe resize and prime 9mm cases

Is there a hand tool for this? Don't have a great place for a big press in the den.

I would do the loading part elsewhere with a press and be paying much closer attention, obviously, but I thought I could spend less time in the garage if I got the cases all ready beforehand

Thoughts?

Thoughts?? Hmm ..
1. Must be true love , I want to spend MORE time in the garage by myself, not less.
2. If I do so much as type a few words while SWMBO is watching The Good Wife on Netflix, I catch hell.
3. Reloading is one of those activities that by it's very nature, desires concentration, precision and accuracy. Distractions such as wifey and TV could lead to errors and mistakes. Sure, it's the more mundane and boring steps, but even case prepping and priming can be dangerous. Especially if you have pets..... One guy I was reading about had a primer go off while hand priming in front of the TV with his wife, scared the dog who peed on the floor , wife jumped up and slipped in the dog pee, and scared the cat so bad it disappeared and wasn't seen for days...