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jmorris · July 12, 2017, 05:59 PM

A turret isn't going to be leaps and bounds faster than a single stage except for going from one die to another.

You still have to pull the handle once for everytime the ram moves up X the number of operations/dies you have. You can only do one operation at a time because there is only one case in the shell holder at a time. So if you are running 3 dies 100 rounds is 300 strokes.

A progressive press can preform multiple operations all at the same time from 3 to 8 stations. Once the shell plate is full on a progressive, you get a completed round for every pull of the handle. So 100 rounds is 100 strokes plus the number of locations in the shell plate.

July 12, 2017, 05:59 PM	#7
jmorris Senior Member Join Date: November 22, 2006 Posts: 3,078	A turret isn't going to be leaps and bounds faster than a single stage except for going from one die to another. You still have to pull the handle once for everytime the ram moves up X the number of operations/dies you have. You can only do one operation at a time because there is only one case in the shell holder at a time. So if you are running 3 dies 100 rounds is 300 strokes. A progressive press can preform multiple operations all at the same time from 3 to 8 stations. Once the shell plate is full on a progressive, you get a completed round for every pull of the handle. So 100 rounds is 100 strokes plus the number of locations in the shell plate.