The hook method, with due diligence (and your pilot holes), would seem to be the easiest way to do it in quantity.

With smaller eyelets and a hand-chuck, I've just clamped them into the chuck directly. Certainly more time consuming to chuck and unchuck each one, though, and that's assuming they're small enough to get a grip on.

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