Why you should be careful while reloading.

[Onionbreath]

My 1st reloads(45 cal 200gr swc 5.5 gr) I put myself behind some sand  bags before I pulled the trigger. The reloads worked well that day, but it can be scary at times. Besides the obvious fear of injury, there is the cost of the weapon. That was my first time reloading. Now, I am more confident and I am still very careful. I  set all the bullets next to each other and examine them making sure the levels are the same.  It takes a long time to build bullets single stage, however, I love doing it. Gentlemen, Keep your powder dry and God Bless America.

[Cowboy T]

This is a good example of progressive reloading. You are looking at less than 6 hours production of .308 ammunition I loaded up this past week. It totals 1,450 rounds. All of this will feed my 2, Springfield M-1's, along with 2 Savage bolt guns, and a Winchester Model 88. This would have taken forever and a day to load on a single stage press. This ammunition shoots under an inch in both of my M-1A's, and consistently produces one hole groups at 100 yards in my Savage 12-F/TR and 10-FP. The only thing I altered for the M-1A's was powder type and charge weight, which took about 10 minutes total to change out.  Bill T.

I'm afraid I have to agree with Bill T. on this.  I use two Lee Pro 1000's, one for .38 Special, the other for .45 Colt.  The reason is that I shoot a reasonable amount, at least 200 rounds/week, and I also load for my girlfriend.  With my full-time job + other commitments, time is an issue.  The key is to pay attention, which of course should go without saying any time one is reloading, regardless of what type of press.  That's why I go into my specially dedicated "reloading room" and lock the door.  Nobody can bother me.

Today I spent an hour making some powder-puff .38 Special ammo (3.9gr Bullseye, 105gr Lee LSWC).  In that hour, I had made and boxed up 200 rounds, and I can do that quite easily.  About three rounds gave me a little primer trouble and thus slowed me down, otherwise I probably would've hit 220/hour.

This is at least double the speed of even my Lee Classic Turret, a press which I really like a lot and on which I've loaded plenty of .357M ammo.  On that press, I can comfortably do about 100 rounds/hour.  Single-stage, we're looking at 50/hour.  That's not nearly fast enough to make sufficient practice ammo.

If the girlfriend and I want to shoot enough to actually get good (we're improving, but still a ways from "good" yet), I need to load progressively.

- Cowboy T

[Marine052191]

Oh yea! Thats a shame... I'm not into reloading yet, but I think I will buy a single stage reloading press. I've noticed this happens when people get destracted, which when I start reloading, I am putting it in my garage, and locking the garage door, so no inurruption from family, my annying cats meow, and that fish my mom has with its googily eyes @_@ That fish scares the hell out of me LOL, jk. Anyway, I have seen Glocks open up, but Glocks are one of my favorite companies, and I do favor any M191!, or A-1.
I've heard that Glock boxes SCREAM not to use reloaded ammuntion, I guess it's the same case with this guys Revolver, Pressure restriction + not paying attention = Dangerous results! 

[Mohunter]

Oh yea! Thats a shame... I'm not into reloading yet, but I think I will buy a single stage reloading press. I've noticed this happens when people get destracted, which when I start reloading, I am putting it in my garage, and locking the garage door, so no inurruption from family, my annying cats meow, and that fish my mom has with its googily eyes @_@ That fish scares the hell out of me LOL, jk. Anyway, I have seen Glocks open up, but Glocks are one of my favorite companies, and I do favor any M191!, or A-1.
I've heard that Glock boxes SCREAM not to use reloaded ammuntion, I guess it's the same case with this guys Revolver, Pressure restriction + not paying attention = Dangerous results! 

I think one of the biggest concerns with Glocks are you don't want to use any cast bullets. The factory barrels won't handle them. The riflings are different and they will get all gummed up with lead and then you get severe overpressure. Lone wolf makes an aftermarket barrel with cut riflings that will solve that problem for around $100 bucks. I'd like to get one, but finances won't permit it right now.
My reloads have done fine so far with my Glock 20 10mm. I haven't shot any cast bullets, only factory produces hollow points with copper jackets, and I don't ever load over the max charge either. The recoil is bad enough without making it any worse. As a matter of fact, I've been trying to create a low recoil load for it that is still accurate. It seems that I can't get both with the same load? My hotter loads are accurate, but kick my azz, my low recoil loads just aren't accurate??? There has to be a happy medium there somewhere.

[1967spud]

This is one reason why I NEVER use a progressive press and I always check and recheck my charges with a light and compare to the load data.

Thats a very valid point there ammo

[victor8881]

this is my #1 reason I will never use a progressive press. When I work with something that explodes, time is not an issue with me!