A thanks to Stevens and SL1 for their discussion of "semi-progressive" mode of operation.
With less than one year of experience in the reloading sport, I've been thinking about how to pick up speed beyond my current single stage operation. Acceptable loads have been developed and tested, components purchased and now it’s time to crank out some rounds.
But it appears I’m more of a “batch-semi-progressive” mind set. Thus far, I like to batch as follows:
1. de-cap and wet tumble with stainless steel pins
2. size, expand, sort by head stamp, label and store
3. prime with hand primer and drop powder
4. seat and remove case mouth expansion (separate steps)
A coworker has an old Dillon press that he said he will loan me once he digs it out of storage and I was wondering about running in “semi-progressive” mode for my steps 2 and 4 simply because I don’t think I’d trust a powder measure on a progressive unless I had a powder cop. I don't even trust my Uniflow to consistently drop Unique powder.