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RiggerWings
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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.
I'd only want to reload rifle rounds due to their cost. Good .30-06 ammo is about $1 a round or better. I also have 3 rifles that will take .223. It can be had cheap enough but I think reloading could be a fun hobby, though tedious.
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