How long would it take to reload 420 rounds?
Of what and on what press?
Of 45 or 9mm I could do it in about 1 hour on my Dillim 550, on a Lee progressive press close to the same. On something like a rock chucker single stage, I would guess a little over 3 hours. The difference is, one pull of the handle on the dillon or lee does 4 things, on a single stage it does 1 thing so to speak.
On rifle stuff some might say it is the same, I do not find that to be the case. Since I reload for a lever gun, it is very critical that the bullet be near perfect or it will not close the breech, means the cases MUST be checked and trimmed if needed. While I do them on the progressive press, I do it a LOT slower and perform far far more checks while doing them.
I am actually considering getting a rock chucker single stage just for rifle loading because the handle pulls are not what slows it down, it is the checking of each and every step that gets it done right. I never load much over 30 rifle cartridges at a time anyway.
Again Tony, if you want to see how it is done and load up that 420 you have sitting around (anyone besides me wondering about that 420 reference? He has a thing for assless chaps ya know!) you are welcome to come over and do them here. Run by graff's or cabellas, get whatever bullet you want (I load lead round nose for 9 and 230 semi wad cutter for 45 myself) price out the small and large pistol primers per thousand winchester brand and winchester 231 powder by the pound and you can use my supplies and you can just pay for what you use. In other words I may not have any bullets down stairs but I have powder and primers, if that is 10 cents per cartridge you can give me 40 bucks or whatever the total comes to be. The bullet is the expesive piece at around 35 busk for 500.
Tomorrow prior to the pacific event would be good, my lovely maiden has to go in to work at 3pm for inventory and won't be able to come, we could load those up and then cruise over to the event and you could ride over to pacific with me if you want to, I am near 40 and 70 aka wentzville. I will PM you my phone number but it will not get answered after 11 today until about 4 or 5 since I am taking the kids to the pool again today.
