Show us a picture of your reloading bench - Page 4

VonFatman · October 24, 2006, 03:39 PM

Dillon 650...

Liberty4Ever · October 24, 2006, 04:03 PM

That Dillon 650 looks nice!

Are those seven more powder measures on the shelves in the background? Do you have turrets set up to reload eight different calibers? If so, I bet that was a decent chunk of change.

LAH · October 24, 2006, 04:43 PM

Hey VonFatman.........Nice horns on the wall.............Creeker

VonFatman · October 24, 2006, 08:18 PM

Liberty4Ever,
I'm afraid so...I don't drink, smoke, sit in bars, spend my weekends watching sports, chase women ('cept my bride), rebuild cars, fish (much), make payments on a boat etc...
I'm pretty focused on reloading, hunting & shooting as my hobby(s) of choice...so yes, I do invest a bit more in my press/bench than I "need"...time is my biggest problem, thus I've invested in a few extras to save a little time and make my hobby a bit more enjoyable. It's really a priority thing for me...and yes, I have the blessing of my bride...in fact, she's my favorite range buddy.

I'm actually looking to move into a single stage now to take on bottle-neck reloading.

LAH,
Thanks! The one on the right is my first muzzleloader kill...shot that 'ol boy with a CVA Staghorn from about 125 yards off a solid rest. The other was shot with my Contender w/10" .357 Mag barrel last fall...just 35 steps for that one (but it was off hand!)

Bob

LAH · October 24, 2006, 08:25 PM

(but it was off hand!)

I heard that and fully understand that which you're saying.

Nice shot.

Black Snowman · October 24, 2006, 08:38 PM

Liberty4Ever · October 24, 2006, 08:51 PM

Bob,

Quote:

I'm pretty focused on reloading, hunting & shooting as my hobby(s) of choice...so yes, I do invest a bit more

For me, it's more a matter of too many hobbies, not enough time. Mountain biking, camping, hiking, kayaking, motorcycle, experimental airplane....

I need to focus a bit more, and lately I need to work more.

Quote:

I have the blessing of my bride...in fact, she's my favorite range buddy.

Then you sir are doubly blessed. It sounds like you realize that.

Quote:

I'm actually looking to move into a single stage now to take on bottle-neck reloading.

Lee has really been making some serious strides in the last couple of years. They were known for claiming other presses were more expensive because they were overbuilt. They seem to be changing their tune. The Lee Classic Press is a very substantial single stage press with a very high degree of fit and finish. I think it's fair to say it's the most solid press on the market at any price, and probably the nicest single stage press. It'll easily resize .50 BMG cases.

If you want a single stage press, but might also want something a bit more automated for slightly higher volume, you might also be interested in the Lee Classic 4-Hole Turret Press. It's fairly new and is also getting rave reviews. They finally have a solid and reliable automatic priming system.

You can check them both out at www.MidwayUSA.com.

The only reason you wouldn't be proud to put either of these on your bench would be the red color clashing with all that blue.

VonFatman · October 24, 2006, 09:01 PM

Creeker,
Thanks again!

Black Snowman,
Nice set-up! I'm going to have to come by and let
you show me all the goodies!

Liberty4Ever,
Thanks for the tips on Lee, Black Snowman, a friend who shoots at our farm is a Lee Bench kinda guy! He's always liked Lee equipment. I'd have no problem having some color "coordination" on the bench!!

Bob

Waitone · October 24, 2006, 10:38 PM

Here is a set up to which everyone aspires. I wish it was mine but it ain't.
http://forums.sixgunner.com/m_27446/mpage_1/tm.htm

scott5 · October 24, 2006, 11:16 PM

Here is mine.
I hope it comes through.

VonFatman · October 24, 2006, 11:44 PM

Scott5,
Now THAT is a complete setup! Nice!!
Is there anything you don't have??
Well done.

Bob

IDriveB5 · October 31, 2006, 07:09 PM

Finally I get to post to this thread! Ive been waiting for months, and I've finally got all my bits'n'pieces together.

The "bench" was a freebie with the exception of the 2x4 in the rear and associated hardware used to reinforce the table.

My box from Midway:

My new toys:

All set up:

Not too shabby if I say so myself!

LAH · October 31, 2006, 09:30 PM

IDriveB5 .......I'd say that set up is just fine................Creeker

chutchis · October 31, 2006, 10:08 PM

Just started shooting about 1 1/2 ago and now I'm already into the reloading scene...as with all my hobbies I gotta do it all at once. The bench had to get built in the only unfinished room in the house (per wifes instructions). I guess now I have an excuse to finish it...the way I want it.

scott5 · November 1, 2006, 01:40 AM

Quote by VonFatman
"Now THAT is a complete setup! Nice!!
Is there anything you don't have??
Well done.

Bob"
Well I would like to get rid of my Dillon 550B and get a new Hornady L-N-L AP
and get a drillpress and a bandsaw

Someday.

Delta608 · November 3, 2006, 11:57 AM

My new reloading bench !!!! Thanks for all the help in deciding which reloader !!

VonFatman · November 3, 2006, 02:06 PM

Lookin' good Delta608!!

Going "blue"...you won't regret your choice!!

Bob

dtalley · November 6, 2006, 11:27 AM

Well I finally decided to take a picture and show my meager bench. I need to add some shelves because my stuff keeps growing.. Out of the picture on the floor are an FA Tumbler and 3 - 50cal ammo boxes with other types of powder and components. In a locked closet are other 50cal ammo boxes with ammo in them. There is also a table behind the camera that I use as a gun cleaning station along with my wifes sewing machine. We need another child to move out so the wife can have her own sewing room and then I can do more with my reloading room.

MarshallDodge · November 7, 2006, 12:11 AM

dtalley, we all started somewhere. My first setup was almost exactly like yours, Challenger press and all. I have used seven different benches including a B&D Workmate. I find it pretty cool the way some of you guys have come up with a way to mount your presses.

Where there is a will, there is a way!

Idano · November 23, 2006, 04:29 AM

After 30 years of reloading I finally have a decent place to reload. Last year I made a 6'x6' room in the back of one of the bays in my garage. I installed ceramic tile and a built in L-shaped bench with a 2"X4" butch block top for my presses. There is a 1/4" steel plate on top of the bench that has welded on studs to mount the presses, the powder stand and the case trimer. There is zero flex in the bench or the mounting of the presses so you get excellent tactile feel on every stroke of the press so you quickly tell if something isn't right as you're reloading. The room has heat and AC plumbed in so I can now load year round in comfort. I still need to install an Internet connection and computer, but otherwise it is pretty much finished. I just added the Hornady LNL with a digital case counter, a low primer alarm, and a low powder alarm; the low power alarm is arriving Tuesday. This is a huge improvement from when I started as a teenager in a shed with grandfather on a RCBS JR.

Sisco · November 23, 2006, 09:32 AM

Wow, I'm impressed by these setups some of you have!
Here's my humble space. I took over 4' of the laundry room, right between the wall and the freezer.
When we remodled our bathroom I salvaged the old vanity base and put a 4' preformed counter top on it. Built the cabinets out of MDF.
The press is held to the counter top by 3 studs held on by wing nuts. I can change from the turrent to a single stage or a MEC Jr. shotshell loader fairly quickly.
I always said the first kid to leave the nest lost a bedroom and I gained a gun room but they moved back in before I could get it done!

**Walkalong** · November 23, 2006, 09:53 AM

Here is mine inbetween cleanups. Built it from pieces of a thrown away entertainment center.

**Walkalong** · November 23, 2006, 09:58 AM

Here are my 4 kids.
I would start a new thread, but I have not figured out how. Just dumb, I guess. Anybody out there like bulldogs?

snuffy · November 23, 2006, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Anybody out there like bulldogs?

Good looking pit! My son/daughter-in-law has a pit bull, she's the gentelest, loving dog I know. Afraid of her own shadow!

armabill · November 23, 2006, 11:16 AM

October 24, 2006, 03:39 PM	#76
VonFatman Member Join Date: January 21, 2004 Location: Just a Smidge outside of Kansas City Posts: 375	I just have one press... Dillon 650... __________________ "Onward thru the Fog"

October 24, 2006, 08:18 PM	#79
VonFatman Member Join Date: January 21, 2004 Location: Just a Smidge outside of Kansas City Posts: 375	Liberty4Ever, I'm afraid so...I don't drink, smoke, sit in bars, spend my weekends watching sports, chase women ('cept my bride), rebuild cars, fish (much), make payments on a boat etc... I'm pretty focused on reloading, hunting & shooting as my hobby(s) of choice...so yes, I do invest a bit more in my press/bench than I "need"...time is my biggest problem, thus I've invested in a few extras to save a little time and make my hobby a bit more enjoyable. It's really a priority thing for me...and yes, I have the blessing of my bride...in fact, she's my favorite range buddy. I'm actually looking to move into a single stage now to take on bottle-neck reloading. LAH, Thanks! The one on the right is my first muzzleloader kill...shot that 'ol boy with a CVA Staghorn from about 125 yards off a solid rest. The other was shot with my Contender w/10" .357 Mag barrel last fall...just 35 steps for that one (but it was off hand!) Bob __________________ "Onward thru the Fog"

October 24, 2006, 08:38 PM	#81
Black Snowman Member Join Date: September 3, 2003 Location: Kansas City, KS Posts: 3,507	__________________ Laws don't stop criminals, people do.

October 24, 2006, 09:01 PM	#83
VonFatman Member Join Date: January 21, 2004 Location: Just a Smidge outside of Kansas City Posts: 375	Creeker, Thanks again! Black Snowman, Nice set-up! I'm going to have to come by and let you show me all the goodies! Liberty4Ever, Thanks for the tips on Lee, Black Snowman, a friend who shoots at our farm is a Lee Bench kinda guy! He's always liked Lee equipment. I'd have no problem having some color "coordination" on the bench!! Bob __________________ "Onward thru the Fog"

October 24, 2006, 10:38 PM	#84
Waitone Member Join Date: December 25, 2002 Location: The Land of Broccoli and Fingernails Posts: 5,406	Here is a set up to which everyone aspires. I wish it was mine but it ain't. http://forums.sixgunner.com/m_27446/mpage_1/tm.htm __________________ "As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others." Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 1788)

October 24, 2006, 04:03 PM	#77
Liberty4Ever Member Join Date: October 7, 2006 Location: Lexington KY Posts: 147	That Dillon 650 looks nice! Are those seven more powder measures on the shelves in the background? Do you have turrets set up to reload eight different calibers? If so, I bet that was a decent chunk of change.

October 24, 2006, 04:43 PM	#78
LAH Member Join Date: January 2, 2003 Location: In The Hardwoods Posts: 758	Hey VonFatman.........Nice horns on the wall.............Creeker

October 24, 2006, 08:25 PM	#80
LAH Member Join Date: January 2, 2003 Location: In The Hardwoods Posts: 758	(but it was off hand!) I heard that and fully understand that which you're saying. Nice shot.

October 24, 2006, 11:44 PM	#86
VonFatman Member Join Date: January 21, 2004 Location: Just a Smidge outside of Kansas City Posts: 375	Scott5, Now THAT is a complete setup! Nice!! Is there anything you don't have?? Well done. Bob __________________ "Onward thru the Fog"

October 31, 2006, 07:09 PM	#87
IDriveB5 Member Join Date: October 1, 2005 Location: Laurel, MD Posts: 547	Finally!! Finally I get to post to this thread! Ive been waiting for months, and I've finally got all my bits'n'pieces together. The "bench" was a freebie with the exception of the 2x4 in the rear and associated hardware used to reinforce the table. My box from Midway: My new toys: All set up: Not too shabby if I say so myself! __________________ ☼ MD Shooters Forum ☼ +Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances +A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Seems pretty clear to me.

October 31, 2006, 09:30 PM	#88
LAH Member Join Date: January 2, 2003 Location: In The Hardwoods Posts: 758	IDriveB5 .......I'd say that set up is just fine................Creeker

October 31, 2006, 10:08 PM	#89
chutchis Member Join Date: October 15, 2006 Posts: 39	Here's mine... Just started shooting about 1 1/2 ago and now I'm already into the reloading scene...as with all my hobbies I gotta do it all at once. The bench had to get built in the only unfinished room in the house (per wifes instructions). I guess now I have an excuse to finish it...the way I want it.

November 1, 2006, 01:40 AM	#90
scott5 Member Join Date: February 1, 2004 Location: northern New Mex. Posts: 259	Don't have Quote by VonFatman "Now THAT is a complete setup! Nice!! Is there anything you don't have?? Well done. Bob" Well I would like to get rid of my Dillon 550B and get a new Hornady L-N-L AP and get a drillpress and a bandsaw Someday. __________________ Happy shooting. Scott5

November 3, 2006, 02:06 PM	#92
VonFatman Member Join Date: January 21, 2004 Location: Just a Smidge outside of Kansas City Posts: 375	Lookin' good Delta608!! Going "blue"...you won't regret your choice!! Bob __________________ "Onward thru the Fog"

November 7, 2006, 12:11 AM	#94
MarshallDodge Member Join Date: November 7, 2005 Location: Utah, USA Posts: 1,605	dtalley, we all started somewhere. My first setup was almost exactly like yours, Challenger press and all. I have used seven different benches including a B&D Workmate. I find it pretty cool the way some of you guys have come up with a way to mount your presses. Where there is a will, there is a way! __________________ BA/UU/R.... In memory of Dave McCracken.

November 23, 2006, 04:29 AM	#95
Idano Member Join Date: October 2, 2006 Posts: 933	After 30 years of reloading I finally have a decent place to reload. Last year I made a 6'x6' room in the back of one of the bays in my garage. I installed ceramic tile and a built in L-shaped bench with a 2"X4" butch block top for my presses. There is a 1/4" steel plate on top of the bench that has welded on studs to mount the presses, the powder stand and the case trimer. There is zero flex in the bench or the mounting of the presses so you get excellent tactile feel on every stroke of the press so you quickly tell if something isn't right as you're reloading. The room has heat and AC plumbed in so I can now load year round in comfort. I still need to install an Internet connection and computer, but otherwise it is pretty much finished. I just added the Hornady LNL with a digital case counter, a low primer alarm, and a low powder alarm; the low power alarm is arriving Tuesday. This is a huge improvement from when I started as a teenager in a shed with grandfather on a RCBS JR. Last edited by Idano; June 2, 2007 at 11:37 AM.

November 23, 2006, 09:53 AM	#97
Walkalong Moderator Join Date: November 20, 2006 Location: Alabama Posts: 29,649	Here is mine inbetween cleanups. Built it from pieces of a thrown away entertainment center. __________________ Do you ever wonder why nobody ever robs the bag man for the mob? No, you don't. "Oh bother" said Pooh, as he chambered another round. Author unknown. Last edited by Walkalong; December 16, 2011 at 10:16 PM.

November 23, 2006, 09:58 AM	#98
Walkalong Moderator Join Date: November 20, 2006 Location: Alabama Posts: 29,649	Here are my 4 kids. I would start a new thread, but I have not figured out how. Just dumb, I guess. Anybody out there like bulldogs? __________________ Do you ever wonder why nobody ever robs the bag man for the mob? No, you don't. "Oh bother" said Pooh, as he chambered another round. Author unknown. Last edited by Walkalong; December 16, 2011 at 10:16 PM.

November 23, 2006, 11:16 AM	#100
armabill Member Join Date: December 28, 2002 Location: Glenolden, Pa. Posts: 370