Is there ANY part of reloading that is NOT relaxing to you?

I have about 2600 pieces of .308 Lapua brass, so I only have to do this about every 2 years.
This year I have built an annealer so things are going to take a little longer with a few extra step.
About half of my brass still has spent primers in them so here is what I have to do...
Deprime about 1000-1200 more-a seemingly never ending process.
Ultrasonic clean them, lost of batches at a time-while depriming.
Anneal them, all 2600 of them-very first time doing this.
Resize all of them and tumble them.
Run them all through my Gracey trimmer.
Reweight everything and sort into MTM boxes.
Reprime them.
Then I can start weighing each charge and seating bullets.
I will only need to fully load about 1000 this year, but that usually means a lot of time in front of the loading press on the days leading up to a match.

So basically there isn't any part of the reload process that is relaxing.
 
Sorting through 5 gallon buckets of range pickups used to suck. Got a set of those shell shorter things and life is easier. Sucks to have to pluck 9mm brass out of the .40 brass still. Other than that it's quiet relaxing, even more so when a bunch of us get together and work as a team for each step loading up rifle stuff.
 
I used to hate trimming. I was using a Wilson Stainless trimmer, very accurate but slow. Now I use a Giraud Power trimmer and trimming is now my favourite part of the process. I trim now everytime its so effortless.
 
The only part of it that I find relaxing is getting to shoot three times as much, or more, for the same money. Aside from that, I find reloading tedious and boring.
 
At fully open is my trick, it does look like a smiley face without eyes to mock me I believe. :redface:


Dogleg said:
Leaving the little spout open on a Chargemaster when pouring powder into it isn't very relaxing. Turning necks or chamfering cases has lost its appeal. Weighing much more than 50 of something at a time has turned to druggery. Maybe its just the shooting that I like now.
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Reloading sets me in great mood. Nice and quiet until I'm hand priming and wife, kids or inlaws scream and my primer tray goes flying.
 
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