Show us a picture of your reloading bench

Jeff H said:

Photo of the day I mounted the press. It is much messier now, but I aspire to get it this clean again, someday.

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updated photo with everything finally mounted

not suffering from ADD.....

jr_watkins, how old is the Square Deal?

CQB45ACP said:

Too late now for you but for far less $$, and if you have Lee equipment or other brand with a small base Lee’s mounting plates work great.

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I use the mounting plate for my lee single stage (de-priming) and turret (size/expand/seat/FCD). Works great for me. Very good investment.

Wish i had a dedicated room for all my gun activities. Unfortunately I have to tumble brass and anneal brass in the garage, do most of my gunsmithing in the mudroom/laundry room but I have a room shared with exercise equipment and spouse's art stuff for my reloading. BTW, you can not have too much brass.

epags said:

BTW, you can not have too much brass.

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Can you explain that to my Mrs.?

epags said:

BTW, you can not have too much brass.

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Agreed! I have in the neighborhood of 7,000 223 cases, 2,000 308 cases and several thousand 9mm and 40 cal cases. It pays to have a police buddy who’s a SWAT sniper! I try to decap and wet tumble every load my buddy drops off so I don’t get buried. Then when it’s time to load some up I just have to trim and clean primer pockets then it’s off to the races. I anneal after every 3-4 reloads. I’m still new at the annealer so I don’t know if I’m doing it too often or not enough.

LAH said:

jr_watkins, how old is the Square Deal?

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Bought it in 1995, added the mount about 5 years later, have replaced a few springs and the priming system, but otherwise is as I bought it. Load for 40 S&W, 9mm, 357mag/38 special, 44mag/44 special on it.

jr_watkins said:

Bought it in 1995, added the mount about 5 years later, have replaced a few springs and the priming system, but otherwise is as I bought it. Load for 40 S&W, 9mm, 357mag/38 special, 44mag/44 special on it.

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I purchase one in 1993 on which to load 44 magnum. It held up great. I did break the old style handle which Dillon replaced. I sold it a year ago to a local Deputy who loads 45ACP. It is still going strong.

Thankfully my beautiful wife allowed me to convert a bedroom into a “gun room”

Yamifrk said:

Thankfully my beautiful wife allowed me to convert a bedroom into a “gun room”

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Great look'n room compared to my closet that I share with a water heater.

One question tho; do you wear sun glasses while reloading?

Mine is a little messy right now, but it works for me..

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PWC said:

Great look'n room compared to my closet that I share with a water heater.

One question tho; do you wear sun glasses while reloading?

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Only when I reload at night…lol. Those orange walls make the bench look more orange than it really is. It’s actually stained with a darker color than it looks.

Does anyone have a more confined reloading area? My bench is 33 1/4" wide and shares the closet with the water heater in my garage. The closet is 34" wide. I just put a new top on the bench and added my 83 year old Pacific "C" press, the first and only one I ever used. I do have an old Herters that was given to me and it is compatable with 7/8 X 24 dies, but no room.

PWC said:

Does anyone have a more confined reloading area? My bench is 33 1/4" wide and shares the closet with the water heater in my garage. The closet is 34" wide. I just put a new top on the bench and added my 83 year old Pacific "C" press, the first and only one I ever used. I do have an old Herters that was given to me and it is compatable with 7/8 X 24 dies, but no room.

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My "bench" is the width of the closet under the stairs.
Only one press at a time, with others on a shelf awaiting at turn on the bench.
I reload standing or with my butt parked on a stool.
Bench width:

Pic from outside looking in thru the door:

That shelf on the right with the towel on it folds down.

Other presses:

As someone who now lives in a condo I am faced with setting up the smallest reloading bench I have ever had. Still thinking and planning. Probably have enough loaded ammo to last the rest of my life. You can't ever tell the zombie apocolipse may happen any day now.

Removed my post, wrong thread, sorry

Finished this with just about a half hour to spare my time for the new year but after about 8 months of refurbishing and preparing this room I finally got my new indoor workshop/bench finished.



Left side is a 8'x4' section for leather working and the right is 2' deep by 6'7" or so for the hand loading section.
I'll be adding some under shelves at some point for sure but functionally this is finished. Just need to bring in the chests of drawers I use for storage for loading and leather stuffs and tidy up the place.

Next up will be the casting station inside the shed, which was the old loading/leatherworking station. Which should hopefully go pretty fast because I'm not going to stain any of that wood, just sand smooth.

It's a good day to actually see the bench, I get a clear view of the presses tho.

Good thing you took a picture as the "before", cause it won't be long 'til the "after" looks much different. Lol

Kitchen table, plastic storage container with lee hand press/rcbs A type dies and i get half inch groups!!!

Wrong thread, oops! Nice benches fellas