I needed another 100 rds so I started at exactly 8:00pm.
-I got a 100-ct of CCI500 primers off the shelf;
-I dumped them in my brass Dillon flip tray and flipped 'em;
-I filled a tube and dumped 'em;
-I dropped some more clean R-P 9x19 cases in the feeder;
-I lot-numbered the load and recorded the data and components;
-I placed a Blue Bin of 125g LRN Penn Bullets in front of me;
-I sat down and started pumping;
-I measured and gauged some as they were made;
-I placed the finished rds in MTM 50-ct flip-top boxes.
It was 8:31pm.
I love my Dillon XL650
Thanks, Weshoot2,
That sort of precise reporting is just what we need to compare apples with apples. Thanks for the detail.
I walked up to my Lee Classic Turret with a bowl of 100 .357 cases, a box of cast 158 grain SWC and a box of 100 primers (don't remember the brand). The Turret was already set up with a set of four dies and a filled Auto-disk powder measure already set to the correct powder drop weight and tested.
I started the clock as I put the box of bullets on the floor next to two empty boxes for the finished rounds.
I opened the primers and dumped them in the Lee "Pez dispenser" device, flipped the primers upright and put it on the press and started loading. When I ran out of primers, I took the turret out of the press and dumped the remaining powder back into the original container and reinstalled the turret, picked up the two (50 each) boxes of finished bullets from the floor, closed the lids and stopped the clock at 47 minutes.
I did not measure the rounds (as the dies were already set up) nor annotate the load data on the boxes (as my standard plinking load is the default value) as is my habit with these low-power loads.
I hope others using different techniques (but with comparable "Continuous Processing" parameters) will post their time benchmarks with such detail.