FROM CLOSET TO SHED "RELOADING"

I have been posting on another post and started this so not to hijack the other thread.
When I got back into reloading after a forty year break I set up my reloading area in a 6 foot by 7 foot walk in closet off an extra bedroom.
I started our live in grandson shooting at the age four. When he reached seven and started shooting centerfire guns I couldn't afford to keep up with new ammunition so I got back into reloading again.
I started out with a new Hornady single stage Lock n Load kit. Then added press, an old Pacific that I had drilled & tapped for the Lock n Load adaptor.
That worked for a while but out grew this set up.

Our house is over a hundred years old. There use to be a large four or five car gargae that they tore down about forty years ago and moved this 10'X14' room over and set it on untreated 4x4s
Right on the ground.
They sank in the ground over the years and the floor joist and flooring rotted out.
I was tempted to tear it down but decided to rebuild it.
I had to get it jacked up in the air to get working on it. I cut the floor out, cut all of the rotted wall studs off up above the rot and extended them a little and sistered 2x4s along side of them.

I poured 2' by 2' concrete pads to set the shed on,
Bought used 6'X8" beams to put on the concrete pads. Bought the fourteen foot 2X6s for new flor joinst. The 3/4" tounge & grouve flooring were left over from a house we built a couple of years ago.
After getting this all together I decided to convert the shed into my reloading space.
Most of the wood material is stuff I brough home from work, we build houses in Anacorted WA.
At todays prices I vouldn't afford to rebuild this or make a new shed.
A $8 sheet of OSB is close to $40.
A $3 -2x4 is right around $8.
I just bought one 2x6x14 and it was $32 plus tax.
A $2.50 stick of 1/2 inch rebar is over $10.
For new siding I wanted to HardiePlank lap siding. Even that went way out of sight. So I have been collecting old cedar fence sections that a fence company hauls back to tjier yard after they remove them. They dump them out by the road for free to take. I make planter boxes and bird houses out of this old cedar wood.
To cut cost on my shed I used it to reside the shed.
I did buy three 2'X2' windows that I installed on the front & two sided. The door is a three foot door that we removed from a house we totally striped down to the wall studs and remodeled a year ago, $275,000 remodel.

I bought a new one room AC unit for it, I have a 220 volt electric wall heater for the shed.
I had a small four circut panel box out there.
When we remodeled our house I had them put a 200 amp service in.
I had a electrition friend stop in and see what I needed to do to get a 100 amp service out to the shed. I need to run a heavier electric line out there. He has a used 100 amp panel box and breakers to use.
It is all comeing together. I still have a couple of months to go before I can get it complete.
It will have heat, air conditioner, small wood stove, mini refridge.
The last two years I have been buying more reloading equipment.
I have three Lock n Load single stage presses, a couple of RCBS Rock Chucker presses, a Redding T-7 press, a Hornady AP press, a Dillion 650, a cheap Lee progressive kit, really cheap single stage press that came with the Lee book my son gave me.

On the right side of the door I will be putting a three or four foot wall. Then build a bench from that wall over to the corner about 7 feet then down the side wall 14 feet from the front of the bench to the back of the shed.

I will have two of the single stage Lock n Load presses set up, the Hornady AP press, the Dillion 650, the Redding T-7 atleast one RCBS Rock Chucker press.that little cheap Lee press my son gave me and maybe the Lee progressive.
I will have a large choice of presses to use and when new people who want to get in to reloading they will have a large variety to try before they buy.

I have been buying used dies on the gun forums, ebay, gun shows. If I donxt have the set of dies the new guys need to load with I buy them.
Last Tuesday a new reloaded guy came over, we set up a set of 40 caliber and a set of 357 Sig dies. Loaded up some ammo and went shooting.
He odered a new Lee Kit and it is on back order.

Todays project is to cut the opening for my AC unit and do more siding on the right side of the shed.

I cut the opening for the AC unit and put a vent in for the area above the ceiling. Got some sideing put up.
Another couple of hours tonight and tomorrow afternoon. Then I will be done working on it until next weekend.

Done for the day.

After I get the inside done I am planning on putting a full length covered porch across the front. It will be 6 foot deep and ten feet wide.
One step up into the shed.

I do need to get another mini fridge, i was going to take the one from my walk in closet reloading room, but decided to leave that one up in the closet reloading room and I will buy new one for out there in the reloading shed.
I will keep a single stage press set up in the walk in closet.
A recliner, maybe
A TV, NEVER. I don't like watching people making believe they are some one who they are not and fake news.
My main purpose going out there will be reloading then enjoy some amber fluid when I am done reloading.
I do have a AM/FM/CASSETE PLAYER and some good speakers for out there.

After I get the electric in I will have to buy fibberglass insulation and then decide upon putting up either plywood or drywall on the interior walls.
Lots of pegboard behind the reloading bench.

We build houses so when ever there was left over material I brought it home. Prices are really out of line right now are the lumber yard we buy from say they will go up more. They only guarrenty the prices for ten days.
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I have most of the wireing I need to wire the shed up except the main wire from the 200 amp service panel on the house to the service panel in the shed and the plastic pipe to run it in.

Twenty years ago I put a addition on the back of my shed to keep my pigeons in.
When I get the interior finished I need to build a actual pigeon loft for my white homers I use for doing weddings, funerals and memorials.
Then I can tear the old one down and put a 2'X2' window on the back wall and then side it.

I went with 2'X2' windows for security reasons. When opened the openong is only about 10 inches wide, to narrow for the average person to slip through.
The AC Unit is a brand new single room unit.
I framed the opening up yesterday and it will be set in permanetly in place so it can not be pushed in for access.
I will not install the pipes for the woodstove until I get my reloading benches done and see where I want it to sit.
I'm thinking in the back left corner of the shed.
I will finish the front wall and right wall and half of the back wall so I can get my bench built so I can get my presses set up and really start cranking out some ammo.
A friend that helped me build the new floor under the shed stopped by to pick up a couple hundred 30/06 cases and to have a few beers said I should either start up reloading classes or let people come over & load for thier own for $15 - $20 an hour.
I'd rather take one person at a time, spend time with that person. Let them set the dies up, set the trimmer to the proper length, prime thhe cases, load them up then go shooting for an hour or two with them.
I had a new reloader waiting for his press on back order come over last Tuesday for the day and we did a little press time then went shooting.
That is rewarding for me.
And that is why I buy dies in so many different calibers and brass to go with the dies to teach the new guys how to before they spend money on getting set up to see if it is for them.

Working on the electric is the next big step. Digging the trench for the plastic pipe then wireing the shed up so I can insulate and put up the interior sheeting and then make my benches so I can mount my presses.

AfterI get the interior walls up I will screw a 2x12 on the walls then frame in the bench with 2x4s. One inch plywood screwed & glues on the 2x4 frame then formica on top of the one inch plywood.
My walk in closet bench is built the same way. I like formica on top of the the bench. It cleans up so easy.
I might dig the trench for the electric this coming weekend and run the electric line.