Your longest reload session.

[50 Shooter]

I once FL resized 400 pieces of military .50 BMG brass, took a few hours with a lunch break thrown in. I don't know what hurt worse the next day, my hand or my shoulder.

Better to keep it to smaller batches on this stuff as it works you just as much as you work it.

 

[scrat]

About 8 hours is the longest i have ever done. Now i really dont spend that much time. Maybe a few hours

 

[billy_the_kid43]

I don't know what all this ADD stuff is about but I have ADD and have sit for more than 8 hours in a session reloading 1000 .38 Spl with a Lee Loader, no powder thrower, measuring each charge with a beam scale and seating each bullet with a rubber mallet. You just have to find your center and for me anything firearms related is centering.

And just to prove I do have ADD, while writing this I was distracted mid sentence by this smile.:banghead: Man, I feel like that sometimes. LOL

Billy_the_kid43

 

[mainebear]

Wow, some of you guys really go at it. I like to reload an hour or two at a stretch, and sometimes just a half hour or so if I'm busy around the house. Great relaxation and stress relief.
I reload 38, 357, 45 acp, 243, 30-30, 308 and 30-06 on a Rockchucker. Usually load up 50 or a 100 of each. I guess I'm constantly tinkering with loads, bullets etc, so I change stuff around a lot.

 

[frogomatic]

every year right before our anual 'Gun Fun Day' I spend and entire weekend doing nothing but loading, eating, and sleeping. I have a couple buddies come over, and we get an assembly line going. Last year we did just over 20,000 rounds from friday afternoon to sunday night.

 

[357mag357]

15 minutes.

 

[Spartacus451]

I once used up 9 pounds of powder in a single day of reloading handgun cartridges.

How much of that was .500 S&W?

Two hours is my max. Usually I load for a half hour to forty five minutes. Enough to make ammo for the week.

 

[ScratchnDent]

The longest I've spent actually loading ammo was about 3 hours in a stretch, doing 200 .45 acp and 100 7.5 x55 Swiss on a single stage press. I have been known to spend 8-10 hours in the garage drinking beer and cleaning my bench and dies and stuff though. <grin>

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

I've never done more than 2 hours at any one time, I like to keep it down to 1 hour. After an hour, it starts to feel like work. When I have a box of 50 rounds loaded, I'm done. However, some days I will do 2 or 3 (1) hour sessions, with a couple hours of downtime in between.

I only shoot 250 rounds a month, I can easily load 150 rounds every weekend = 600 rounds/month = never running out of range ammo.

 

[floydster]

I clean ,size, deprime all my cases in one session, then next time load and seat bullets.
I find this the best way for me and the most enjoyable.
Floydster