Reeder Custom Guns - I am too old to get in a hurry.

But I have never minded casting bullets, sizing and lubing them.

I don't mind reloading on a single stage press. I don't shoot a lot of different calibers and it is not an issue for me to stay ahead of the game doing it that way. I understand that don't work for everyone.

I grew up on a ranch 20+ miles out of town and I learned early that if we didn't go into town this month we would next month. No one got in a hurry. There was always more than enough to keep a person busy.

In Africa life was even slower .. or at least it seemed that way. The only thing that happened quickly was robberies. We stayed prepared and never lost more than a camera.

But no one was in a hurry.

And I have gotten slower since I have gotten older. If I don't get it done today I may try to tomorrow. Or some other day.

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I have a fair number of calibers, but do it all on a single stage press. I do a little, often. My wife will run herself into the ground and take 2 days to recover...just sayin

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that I still haven't got off my dead ass and lube/sized them. I am not really in a hurry but I never seem to have the time to do it. I never go to bed before midnight and even then it seems like I have to rush to get to bed then.My reloading is something I have to do pretty much every evening, no matter what. With 70 different proprietary calibers to load I have to make time to load some for the next day. I suppose I really don't need 8 Dillons on my loading bench, plus an RCBS Ammo Master, 2 RCBS Turret presses and a Lyman lube/sizer but they sure help. I have a Star lubri/sizer that fights me at every turn. I may get it back out and fight with it again some time.

In the evenings after I do the invoicing and tax crap and answer 10 or 12 e-mails I have my presses set up for most of the calibers I load the most. With the Dillons I can whip out 300 rounds of various calibers pretty quick, which will get me thru the next day. I would hate to think I had to do all this with single station presses. I love my RCBS Rock Chucker and Ammo Master but boy they sure are slow.
In the pics below I have added 2 more Dillons since the pics were taken.
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LOOKING FORWARD TO SPRING--ALL ON A ROCKCHUCKER. I DO CHEAT A LITTLE. I RE-SIZE, DE-PRIME, AND BELL THE MOUTHS ON A PRO 2000. SOME GET PRIMED ON THE PRO, OTHERS WITH THE RCBS BENCH-MOUNTED TOOL. THEN I CAN FINISH LOADING IN BATCHES AS DESIRED. I HAVE .45 COLT, .44 MAGNUM, .44 SPECIAL, .41 MAGNUM, .38-40, .32-20, .327, .32 MAGNUM, .32 LONG, AND EVEN 500 .32 S&Ws ALL READY TO GO.

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cartridges like 41 GNR, 356 GNR etc, as the shell plate sits on a spring sitting on a ball bearing. And on full length resizing sometimes the spring loaded shell plate gives a slight bit, maybe a thou or two. But that is enough that the cartridge won't completely fit in the chamber, sticking out that couple of thous. So I do all the straight wall cases on the Dillons. Cartridges like 44 Mag, 44 Special, 357 mag and special, 45 long colt, 45 ACP, 510 GNR, 41 mag, 9mm, 38 super and so on. I try to keep a Dillon set up for those that I have to load the most. The necked down stuff I load in the RCBS Turret presses as each of them holds 2 full sets of dies. The RCBS Ammo Master is the press I use for the tall cartridges like 470 Nitro, 500 Nitro, my new 417 GNR, most of my cartridges based on the 405 case, and so on. So I get my money's worth out of each of the presses.

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I am too old to get in a hurry.

Yep

I have probably 10,000 lead bullets I have cast

Understood. What I do is not how everyone can or should.

I LOADED 11,000 ROUNDS IN NOV/DEC

That's still a lot of work...

the Dillons don't do well on necked down revolver

Your right bicep must be twice the size of the left!