I'm following the swaging thread closely. I have a similar need. I have a couple presses, a Dillon 550b that I've used pretty much only for pistol calibers and that works great and is very simple. Then my friend who sold it all to me showed the process for 5.56 and I got depressed at all the extra steps. I have the RCBS case prep station that is a pain to use if I want to process maybe a thousand cases or more. I have literally buckets of military brass.
I also have an RCBS turret press I've never used. Is it feasible to set that up for case prep - depriming and swaging, maybe even trimming, then going back to the 550b for the loading? Goal is to simplify 5.56 reloading for bulk use. Easy prep and reloading is the idea here. My thought is tumble, run it through the turret press for deprime, swage, and hopefully trim, then run it through the 550 for loading. Keep each press set up in that caliber, no switching anything back and forth. I like to adjust once and keep it there when possible.
Thoughts? Specific product recommendations?
Bitter Bastard