Show us a picture of your reloading bench

Update- almost finished

Here are a few pics of the progression of my reloading room.





I took the advice of several members and added more diagonal braces under the bench. I also replaced all the drywall screws with 3" long #10 wood screws and used 4" long 1/4" lag bolts to hold everything to the studs. The open spot where the broom is for a gunsafe. I had planed to mount my presses to the narrow section of the bench (right side) and use the longer end for gun cleaning and such. Now im begening to think i should use the larger area for the presses. what do yall think? The open spot where the broom is for a gunsafe.

Here are a few pics of my reworked shooting berm that me and a friend did this weekend:





I plan to cover the logs with dirt and add a little more height when i get a front end loader to the house so they dont rot as quick.
-travis

Travis, the bench LOOKS nice. But I still think you're going to need vertical legs under the front edge. If you're concerned about the new carpet, ask at the flooring store about carpet protectors that are put under things like tables and couches to prevent the nap from being crushed. They have a bunch of pegs that penetrate the nap to transfer the weight through the nap to the floor without crushing the nap.

Maybe I'm full o' beans, but I think you'll get flex on the front of that bench when doing resizing. I'm no injunear, but I did stay at a holiday in last night!

Nice berm, but you're right, it needs to be higher. If that's on your property, you're blessed. What I wouldn't give to be able to step out the back door to test ammo. Right now, I have to pay $150.00/year for a private range, that's a 50 mile round trip from home.

Im going to try it like this and if it needs front legs ill add them after i get the new flooring in. For now its going to stay bare concrete. I pulled the carpet out because i have heard problems with gunpowder and vacuum cleaners.
The berm is at the back of my property and i can make up to a 450 yard shot (havnt tried that yet) down that property line all the way to the berm. right now it is about 6' tall and it is sitting on a hill. i plan on digging the dirt in front of it, going down into the hill it is on, and use that to make it taller.

PalmerJ,

Where did you get those cabinets at?

Drumz look good man mount up some presses and give it whirl. nice work sir very clean and neat you did a fine job now I just need you to come over and work on mine a bit

updated photo!

it's extended now! and about as large as i can possibly go and still manage to stay in this room (sharing space with the boiler, air handler for downstairs, and electrical panel)


PalmerJ: when i have my own home, i WILL have a reloading room like that! wow!

Rogers reloading bench

The start of my reloading bench at first. Haven't taken a new picture since i have added my new presses and etc.

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Hello, mister drumz2129, what about new thread
"Show us your shooting berm ", I like it! I think, 10 appointments....

Sorry for the crappy pics.

The High Road up on the computer ^^

I'll try to answere everybodies questions.

The Hollywood does a good job although their are a few things it could do better. If you dont have the space for a bunch of single stage presses its your only choice right now.

I'm not sure I should say where I got the cabinets, but here it goes.....IKEA cost me about 500 bucks for the cabinets and tops.

I have 3 of those charge masters I seem to find myself dumping about 200 rounds worth of 50 the night before I head to a match and find that 1 is to slow two does pretty good and three can be a bit to keep up with but it gets the job done fast.

PM if you want the LNL press It's brand new only been mounted but never used.

Hope I didnt miss anybody.

Jon

PalmerJ

I thought those may have been Ikea, but I did not see anything with the long legs on them. Where those a custom install or do I just need to look harder? I was looking on their web site.

roofgoof,

They are a standard item I bought a corner cabinet and 7 24" bases and then used their 1 1/2" laminated top the feet on the cabinet are the 6" stainless legs. I bought the upper cabinets but after assembling one of them i didnt like it so I returned it them all and will be putting pegboard and 1 lone shelf above.

Jon

Here is what I have been working on for the last month. I am not done completely but getting close! You can't tell in the pictures, but all the shelf compartments are 2-3 rows deep. All the ammo cans under the bench are full also....I'd estimate about 125,000 rounds, gotta be ready for anything! I shoot a lot of trap and skeet competitively which is the reason for all the different gauge loaders, along with IDPA pistol. The black file cabinet has about 15,000 loaded rounds of 12,20,28 and 410 shells in it. I don't have a wide enough angle lens to get it all in one picture, so I had to piece it together.

chrisgo how do you keep up with all that? Makes my head spin.....Creeker

Nice Chrisgo

chrisgo.....that's more reloading components than I've seen at my local Sportsman's Warehouse, Gander Mountain, and Bass Pro put together.

That is one heck of an ammo factory! Reminds me I need to buy more components

Mister chrisgo!

I think too many powder at one place , not secure...

No wonder I can't find anything
chrisgo has them all

Nice Well Stocked bench

pzember:
Mister chrisgo!

I think too many powder at one place , not secure...

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Doesn't look like anything to worry about. Even small mom & pop sporting goods stores have two or three times that much on the shelf.

I participated in this thread a couple of years ago and my bench has had some changes, nothing radical, but I thought I could add an update.

My Lee 50 BMG reloading kit showed up and I got the press mounted today so I thought I would share some pics. Although after looking at the setups that have been posted since I was last involved I feel pretty inadequate!

Here is the Lee press and a bunch of 50 BMG brass ready to go. In the foreground is a .223 case to give some scale to these monster cases. Surprisingly they require little effort to resize as long as they are properly lubricated. I tried to resize one using Hornady One Shot. It wasn't happening! I used the Lee case lube that came with the kit and it was no trouble at all to run the ram up and down. It took about the same amount of effort as doing a .308 case! I am still waiting on powder, primers, and bullets to show up before I can make up live rounds. But at least I can resize the brass for now.



Elvis keeps an eye on things for me while I am away from the bench.



My Lee Classic Turret press now has about 12,000 rounds through it with only a single breakdown. The little plastic cam that drives the turret wore out. I bought 3 more so I should be good for many more years. Hopefully I will have a Dillon on the bench by the time I wear out the 3rd replacement cam!

Chrisgo Really nice set up and lots and lots of supplies.