at a rate that amounts to a crap. Your components are 20c a shot, and you can buy Black Hills match stuff for another 10c a shot. So if you use a single station press, and load carefully enough to have match grade stuff, you are making a wonderful $10 an hour, instead of being at the range shooting. Maybe YOUR overtime aint worth that much, but mine's worth a LOT more than that. For blasting ammo, there's no need to pay more than 10-15c a rd, and your components cost that much. so you are working at the reloading bench for nothing, when you could be working on your draw, dryfiring, etc.
For realistic training the .22lr unit handles 90% of it with the rifle, and probably 3/4 of the live fire with the pistol. The 9mm lwc handles nearly all of the centerfire pistol stuff. So the only reason to reload is to put together special fighting or hunting ammo. For that 100 rds a year (both pistol and rifle) a little c press is enough. you can scrape up 1 day a year to load such ammo, surely. Since almost none of you bother with such loads, the only reason to have a reloader at all is to make it feasible to store 5000 primers and have the ablility to cast bullets, etc, and still have some fun, if some sort of tax, war, etc shuts down the ammo supply. Ditto having 5000 rds of .22lr on hand, of course.
For realistic training the .22lr unit handles 90% of it with the rifle, and probably 3/4 of the live fire with the pistol. The 9mm lwc handles nearly all of the centerfire pistol stuff. So the only reason to reload is to put together special fighting or hunting ammo. For that 100 rds a year (both pistol and rifle) a little c press is enough. you can scrape up 1 day a year to load such ammo, surely. Since almost none of you bother with such loads, the only reason to have a reloader at all is to make it feasible to store 5000 primers and have the ablility to cast bullets, etc, and still have some fun, if some sort of tax, war, etc shuts down the ammo supply. Ditto having 5000 rds of .22lr on hand, of course.
