To actually answer the question though, 200 rounds? Well I remember doing runs that short, but being set up to do them... I could actually set the press up and bang that out in about 20 minutes or so, and that time including filling the primer tubes, loading/checking the powder measure for accuracy, and using pre-cleaned brass... and that was at a slow pace. I had to do that a couple times with bowling pin shoots where I was like "oh shit I need to load ammo" so I'd get up a little earlier and go in the basement before going to the range...
Granted that's not a full time accounting of all the activities to get set up to do that. If you do your loading in the off season when you're not shooting, it's not that bad. I used to do batches of a minimum of 400 rounds, and I could do that in an hour if all the stuff was set up the right way. You break the other tasks down into smaller tasks that don't take as much time. It used to be "oh its shitty today not driving to range, ill load ammo" and in an afternoon I'd bang out 1000 rounds. And that was with a 550 and being very careful. Staging the stuff so you're ready for (insert next task) is the key. Oh I put in a load of laundry, well, that's enough time to go across the basement and do 10-20 mins of case prep BS with the tumblers or whatever. A lot of the tasks that don't involve actually loading the ammo don't have to be done all at once. And with volume they scale pretty well too. For example I ended up only doing a few runs of cleaning of
brass every year because I built up enough brass inventory that I just didn't need to do it much.
I haven't been shooting that much in the past few years so I ended up selling my press (but I kept most of the other stuff) but I think by the time next winter rolls around again I'll have another press, it made life easier in terms of keeping a supply of ammo around.
When I used to reload there was none of this "oh I only can bring a few boxes of ammo to the range because I don't want to use it all up" bullshit. I used to bring these food containers with 400ish rounds of 9mm in it and usually just shoot till I got tired, lol. You end up being able to shoot a lot more for the same amount
of money. If I had been buying commercial back then there's no way I would have been able to keep that kind of pace, I literally would not have been able to
afford it.
-Mike