During this downtime, I'm doing some loading. Over the past few days, I've run quite a bit of 9mm luger. Last night, I decided to keep a count of how many I was completing per hour.
To be fair, I started with cases that were previously cleaned, sized and primed. Due to the Hornady LnL AP's very problematic priming system and the frequent breaking of deprime pins on sizing dies, a couple of years ago, I began to deprime in a separate process and prime off the press. I use a lee universal depriming die on the LNL, then resize on the LNL using typical sizing dies minus the deprime pin, then prime using either a Lee auto prime or an RCBS hand priming tool. Obviously, I can deprime and size very quickly. And I often sit in front of the tv in the evening and prime a couple hundred while watching and relaxing.
Don't get me wrong, I really like the LNL AP for non-precision rounds (other than the really frustrating priming system of course). I run my precision stuff on a fantastic MEC Marksman.
Anyway, last night I ran subsonic 124gr 9mm. I started with a press fully setup and ready to go, and a bag full of cases already sized and primed. I set the timer and began. My regimen for safety and consistency involves checking the coal on every 10th round and weighing the powder charge of every 11th round twice (once on a digital scale and a 2nd time on a balance beam scale). I didn't change anything about my routine or rush. When the timer beeped indicating and hour had passed, I stopped and counted. I had run 418 rounds.
What do your rates look like? How do you manage safety and consistency in your process, and how does that slow your speed?
To be fair, I started with cases that were previously cleaned, sized and primed. Due to the Hornady LnL AP's very problematic priming system and the frequent breaking of deprime pins on sizing dies, a couple of years ago, I began to deprime in a separate process and prime off the press. I use a lee universal depriming die on the LNL, then resize on the LNL using typical sizing dies minus the deprime pin, then prime using either a Lee auto prime or an RCBS hand priming tool. Obviously, I can deprime and size very quickly. And I often sit in front of the tv in the evening and prime a couple hundred while watching and relaxing.
Don't get me wrong, I really like the LNL AP for non-precision rounds (other than the really frustrating priming system of course). I run my precision stuff on a fantastic MEC Marksman.
Anyway, last night I ran subsonic 124gr 9mm. I started with a press fully setup and ready to go, and a bag full of cases already sized and primed. I set the timer and began. My regimen for safety and consistency involves checking the coal on every 10th round and weighing the powder charge of every 11th round twice (once on a digital scale and a 2nd time on a balance beam scale). I didn't change anything about my routine or rush. When the timer beeped indicating and hour had passed, I stopped and counted. I had run 418 rounds.
What do your rates look like? How do you manage safety and consistency in your process, and how does that slow your speed?
