Understood, I was seeing if I was correct in that about 6 minutes per 100 is the limit for a non-automated 650.
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I suppose by the strictest sense of the word there is no such thing as a non automated 650 because they already have automatic shell plate advance, primer feed, case feed and powder measure but most folks think even adding a bullet feeder doesn't count for "automated". They want automated to mean something more.
Like this thread for example, using "automated" in the title to describe a press that loads autonomously, at least for some number of rounds before things need to be filled back up.
That said, like the video I posted in #39, the only thing that sets rounds per hour is the speed the press cycles. If my fingers are going into and out of a pinch zone, that makes it somewhat slower for me but I remember a little over 30 years ago, I wasn't as smart and my Brother and I were loading. He was the handle puller and case feeder, I was the bullet feeder. We managed 800 rounds start to finish in one hour. He only mashed my fingers twice before I suggested a change in job positions and we hit a rhythm with a "K" (short for OK) every time My other non mushed fingers were in the clear. By myself, these days I do 100 every 9:30, on the same press.
I'd still give all my neat reloading gear to load with him again though.