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Use the Little Crow Gunworks World's Finest Trimmer. This thing is awesome!
It's been working well, but there's a few things to be aware of:
1. If you're prepping brass with mixed headstamps that have been fired out of a bunch of different rifles, don't expect your initial trims to be as consistent as this trimmer is capable of, since the trimmer "headspaces" off the shoulder of the brass. I'd say that of all the brass I picked up (a lot of around 500 cases with about 8 different headstamps and fired out of different rifles), 5% are being trimmed a bit short (about 2.5 thou), 80% are within 1-2 thousandths of my desired length, and the rest are a bit long (anything more than 2 thou longer than desired).
2. Be sure to clean out the brass shavings from the "chamber" so they don't interfere with your brass seating fully forward. If you don't, some cases will be trimmed longer than expected. Once you clean the WFT, they will trim as expected.
3. Hold on to those cases right, or wear gloves. I had one case bind in the trimmer, causing my thumb to roll with it and the spinning case rim summarily took a chunk out of my thumb. LOL, lesson learned!
4. Wear eye protection! No, seriously; don't be a hero.
I'm trimming a case every 5 seconds or so, but I'm being slow and methodical about it. They say you can trim a case to length in about 2-3 seconds, and I believe it. My trimming would take an eternity without this tool because I'm doing the initial trim for the RCBS X-Die, which requires the case to be trimmed down to 1.740".
I'm thinking the team of the WFT and the X-Die is going to save me a ton of time in the long run.
Anyone else have little tips to speed up reloading for ammo-hungry autoloaders?

It's been working well, but there's a few things to be aware of:
1. If you're prepping brass with mixed headstamps that have been fired out of a bunch of different rifles, don't expect your initial trims to be as consistent as this trimmer is capable of, since the trimmer "headspaces" off the shoulder of the brass. I'd say that of all the brass I picked up (a lot of around 500 cases with about 8 different headstamps and fired out of different rifles), 5% are being trimmed a bit short (about 2.5 thou), 80% are within 1-2 thousandths of my desired length, and the rest are a bit long (anything more than 2 thou longer than desired).
2. Be sure to clean out the brass shavings from the "chamber" so they don't interfere with your brass seating fully forward. If you don't, some cases will be trimmed longer than expected. Once you clean the WFT, they will trim as expected.
3. Hold on to those cases right, or wear gloves. I had one case bind in the trimmer, causing my thumb to roll with it and the spinning case rim summarily took a chunk out of my thumb. LOL, lesson learned!
4. Wear eye protection! No, seriously; don't be a hero.
I'm trimming a case every 5 seconds or so, but I'm being slow and methodical about it. They say you can trim a case to length in about 2-3 seconds, and I believe it. My trimming would take an eternity without this tool because I'm doing the initial trim for the RCBS X-Die, which requires the case to be trimmed down to 1.740".
I'm thinking the team of the WFT and the X-Die is going to save me a ton of time in the long run.
Anyone else have little tips to speed up reloading for ammo-hungry autoloaders?