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Posted: Sat Sep 1st, 2018 09:52 am

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Reloading rifle is much more difficult than strait walled pistol rounds. Start to finish I can load about 350-400 pistol rounds per hour. For rifle the case prep takes a lot of extra effort with the annealing, sizing, and trimming of the cases prior to loading them up. There is also the reaming of primer pockets if it once fired NATO cases. To load 500 rounds of rifle I have 4 to 6 hours invested in it.

There are a lot of companies that sell "re-manufactured" ammo and will use different headstamps in the process. The guy I buy most of my powder from has 4 commercial grade presses that pump out .223, .308, 9mm, and 45ACP. He makes decent ammo.

With my reloading I sort brass by headstamp for consistency. I also tune the load to a gun. My primary target pistol is a Colt 1911 Govt 9mm. I also have a a 92AF INOX that has nightstand duty. The ammo for the 1911 is a lower powder level with a .355 bullet. The 92AF takes a bit more powder and a .356 sized bullet for it's most accurate load. Re-loading allows me to make match grade ammo for sightly less than what cheap ammo sells for on-line.

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