Cleaned my Reloading Room (pics!)
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Agreed.
I'm not here to chest thump, unless an anti-gunner wanders by, saying "WHY DO YOU NEED THIS!!!! To them, I hope the sight of how well armed average citizens are will give you control freaks many, many sleepless nights when you contemplate the repercussions of banning small arms.
I am proud of the 40+ hours of work it took to get it sorted out, and how it turned out in the end. Five years of putting things away "wherever" after range trips, really took it's toll, since we moved out here. I had crap piled on top of crap piled on top of crap, and it got the point I couldn't FIND anything.
Case point; three weeks ago I thought I was running out of small pistol primers because I only had 2K left in the cabinet. I ended up finding 7,000 more when I cleaned, that I'd bought at some point, stuck on a shelf, got buried; I forgot that I bought them because they never hit the cabinet. I also thought I'd run COMPLETELY out of magnum large rifle primers, and found 2K of them. That's enough to shoot the barrel out of my sole magnum; should last me a good 5-10 years depending on how often I take it out.
Sadly I didn't find any 9mm bullets. Only have 300 left. So now I have 9700 more small pistol primers and tens of thousands of shell casings.
Now that it's organized, it's time to begin the "great culling."
I've been quietly giving out components to new loaders I see on the forum asking for help via PM"s. But as the spring weighs on I'll be taking stock and comparing what I need.
E.g. I have 300 9mm projectiles left. 10,000 primers. And at LEAST 70,000 casings. (!!) Obviously a smart move would be to shift some of those cases in to currency, to buy projectiles.
Likewise, my Springfield 1911 is growing on me. And I have exactly ONE magazine for it! I'd like to pick up spares, but I'm only "recycling" money on gun stuff at this point and not putting more in. Meanwhile I have an entire massive box filled with Glock 9mm and 40 cal magazines left over from my gun shop, and don't own either.
So, the "collection" as it were is not very well ordered - some due to closing the gun shop down and sitting on the inventory for 4 years, but also due to sheer disorganization and bad management.
gamestalker
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Must ESP or something, because I just finished cleaning mine last night. Mine was an absolute disaster zone! Since my reloading room is also my hunting / shooting equipment room, there was camping gear, hunting gear, and everything else related to the combined outdoor shooting sports. I took me from early morning Friday until late last night to get it all organized and cleaned. Ah, it is so nice to just sit down and load without having to clear a small spot to work in.
Bottom line, my 25 yr. old Son never, ever, ever puts anything back the way he found it. Fortunately for me, I am so tuned into his miserable habits that I never leave my precision equipment laying on the reloading bench cause I know he'll lay things on top of them, thus damaging or breaking expensive tools of the trade. I have a lock box I keep those such tools in so he can't get to them, or damage them. I finally found my 6 radios and remote varmint calls he borrowed 4 months ago.
GS
Bottom line, my 25 yr. old Son never, ever, ever puts anything back the way he found it. Fortunately for me, I am so tuned into his miserable habits that I never leave my precision equipment laying on the reloading bench cause I know he'll lay things on top of them, thus damaging or breaking expensive tools of the trade. I have a lock box I keep those such tools in so he can't get to them, or damage them. I finally found my 6 radios and remote varmint calls he borrowed 4 months ago.
GS
lightman
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Thats an impressive room, Trent! I'm well stocked, but not like that, and I don't have the class 111 stuff to feed. Talking about moving, I have around 2200-2500 1# lead ingots, and a few buckets of other types of lead. Think I'll stay where I"m at. Lightman
Heh those aren't class 3, they're semi conversions. Still go through ammo FAST, though. Especially with my kid on the trigger, he can pull it about 4x a second and still hit what he's shooting at, at 200 yards.
First time he went through a 100 round belt in under 30 seconds I about peed myself. He was shooting 8mm that cost me .80c / rd.
He goes "hey thanks dad that was cool."
But all I could hear in my head was "oh my god that kid just shot $80 in ammo in 30 frigging seconds..."
First time he went through a 100 round belt in under 30 seconds I about peed myself. He was shooting 8mm that cost me .80c / rd.
He goes "hey thanks dad that was cool."
But all I could hear in my head was "oh my god that kid just shot $80 in ammo in 30 frigging seconds..."
Fire_Moose
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Hahaa nice
Looks great!
Sent from my CZ85 Combat
Looks great!
Sent from my CZ85 Combat
Here's an oldie for comparison.
Before I finally saved up enough to buy a house, and moved out in to the country; the extent of my "gun room" in 2003 consisted of one corner of the bedroom:
That was taken shortly after I built and stained the bench, and I still I still use it to this day. It's perhaps the ugliest piece of furniture I've ever built, but it does not move. Period. Not one bit.
I had the metal cabinet you see above (the one holding all the primers) back then too - and it held ALL of my powder, bullets, primers. I had 4 small plastic tubs of casings.
And that was it!
I made some smart (in hindsight) purchases early on, and I still can't pass up a good deal when I find one. The tupperware container in post 1 above is full of H1000, I bought a hundred pound keg of it back in 1998 for $5 a pound, and have shot through all but what's left there. Between that powder, some donated cases by a friend to get me started, primers costing 1c each, and lake city pulls I paid a few cents a piece for, for years I shot 300 win mag for less than 10 cents a round. Eventually I started buying SMK's for it, which were pricey. I stumbled across a stack of 1000 220gr SMK's in a pawn shop locally, owner picked up at an estate sale. Told me he'd had them on the shelf for 6 months and no one had even looked at them. So I haggled and bought them for $15 a box.
So now I load 300 win mag for about 25 cents a shot.
Just gotta take the deals when you find them.
Before I finally saved up enough to buy a house, and moved out in to the country; the extent of my "gun room" in 2003 consisted of one corner of the bedroom:
That was taken shortly after I built and stained the bench, and I still I still use it to this day. It's perhaps the ugliest piece of furniture I've ever built, but it does not move. Period. Not one bit.
I had the metal cabinet you see above (the one holding all the primers) back then too - and it held ALL of my powder, bullets, primers. I had 4 small plastic tubs of casings.
And that was it!
I made some smart (in hindsight) purchases early on, and I still can't pass up a good deal when I find one. The tupperware container in post 1 above is full of H1000, I bought a hundred pound keg of it back in 1998 for $5 a pound, and have shot through all but what's left there. Between that powder, some donated cases by a friend to get me started, primers costing 1c each, and lake city pulls I paid a few cents a piece for, for years I shot 300 win mag for less than 10 cents a round. Eventually I started buying SMK's for it, which were pricey. I stumbled across a stack of 1000 220gr SMK's in a pawn shop locally, owner picked up at an estate sale. Told me he'd had them on the shelf for 6 months and no one had even looked at them. So I haggled and bought them for $15 a box.
So now I load 300 win mag for about 25 cents a shot.
Just gotta take the deals when you find them.
I've had about enough cleaning for one year, it took me every single night this week, from the time I quit working until about midnight, to get that room straightened out. I must have about 40 hours wrapped up in it now!
I barely have time to get any shooting done, with work, so cleaning has always taken a back seat priority. This was a slow week (everyone off at that JD convention), so I had the time finally!
I barely have time to get any shooting done, with work, so cleaning has always taken a back seat priority. This was a slow week (everyone off at that JD convention), so I had the time finally!
Magnum Shooter
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Sure don't see any supply problems at your place. Really NICE.
351 WINCHESTER
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Without looking at who posted I said to myself, I'll bet that's Trent.
Reloadron
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Wow, just plain wow. Well stocked and organized. I envy guys like you.
Kudos to your assist with the Marines! I have a 45 year reunion coming up this year in MO.
Ron
Kudos to your assist with the Marines! I have a 45 year reunion coming up this year in MO.
Ron
stargeezer
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Hi Trent! Nice Job.
I wondered where all the ammo had gone around town. Thanks for posting the pics. They are inspiration to us all.
Mike sent me the link. I hope my boy helped a little.
Larry
I wondered where all the ammo had gone around town.
Thanks for posting the pics. They are inspiration to us all.Mike sent me the link. I hope my boy helped a little.
Larry
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OilyPablo
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Very nice.
The problem with taking pictures, now you have a standard to live up to. Shouldn't really be so bad.....well until you get more stuff.
The problem with taking pictures, now you have a standard to live up to. Shouldn't really be so bad.....well until you get more stuff.
wgaynor
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I'm inspired.
hueyville
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Grubbylabs, my friends said I am never allowed to move unless willing to pay a moving company to move the safes. The way they are installed, even with the combinations to open the doors, unload and get to fasteners, it would take three days just to prep them to be moved.
Trent, as I have mentioned in some other threads, after 19 years in the same house I decided to finally remodel the gun room. Pulled it all out into the gym, painted the stained ceiling tiles, walls and epoxy coated the floors. As it all got put back I discovered stuff had about forgotten about like a back stash of over 300 AR magazines. I prefer semi-autos myself due to less worry about paperwork and less rounds down range. Amazing how much the semi's can eat. I purchased a semi auto ma deuce when they were 7,000 bucks on a tripod. Hurts to feed it and I can't really imagine the need for full auto when I can send 500 rounds of 50bmg downrange as fast as the hands can function. I had a man offer me 7,500 bucks for a registered AR auto sear and I was happy to get it out of the vault and cash instead. I do like supressors though. They make shooting much more pleasurable. If your that short on 9mm bullets willing to loan you my 6 cavity 9mm gas check mold and a couple thousand gas checks. Only way I can afford to keep certain items fed and gas check lead only means a little more cleaning at the range.
Trent, as I have mentioned in some other threads, after 19 years in the same house I decided to finally remodel the gun room. Pulled it all out into the gym, painted the stained ceiling tiles, walls and epoxy coated the floors. As it all got put back I discovered stuff had about forgotten about like a back stash of over 300 AR magazines. I prefer semi-autos myself due to less worry about paperwork and less rounds down range. Amazing how much the semi's can eat. I purchased a semi auto ma deuce when they were 7,000 bucks on a tripod. Hurts to feed it and I can't really imagine the need for full auto when I can send 500 rounds of 50bmg downrange as fast as the hands can function. I had a man offer me 7,500 bucks for a registered AR auto sear and I was happy to get it out of the vault and cash instead. I do like supressors though. They make shooting much more pleasurable. If your that short on 9mm bullets willing to loan you my 6 cavity 9mm gas check mold and a couple thousand gas checks. Only way I can afford to keep certain items fed and gas check lead only means a little more cleaning at the range.
Do you know
Do your know you have done to men everywhere? If my wife sees this, I will be held to a much higher standard of neatness. It's taken years and years for her to give up on straightening me up and now you may have given her hope. LOL!
Looks good!
Do your know you have done to men everywhere? If my wife sees this, I will be held to a much higher standard of neatness. It's taken years and years for her to give up on straightening me up and now you may have given her hope. LOL!
Looks good!
Cosmoline
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Amazing collection. You should check your homeowner's insurance on the limits for categories though.
grubbylabs
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Casting is one of the only ways I can afford to shoot.
hueyville
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Cosmoline, that should be S.O.P. for all freaks. We have four Harley in the garage which are more of a liability as won't fit in a vault and my collectors insurance requires hotrod to live indoors, thus just the garage is an insurance nightmare on a claim. Had to get a rider on the policies for two other Harleys so I could keep the 48 and 56 at work since they leak a bit. The four at home had to make sure had in writing which company was liable in case of loss while in the house. At times the wife actually parks her 73 FLH in the kitchen. Having a wife that commanded me to install a kitchen door wide enough to ride a Harley through is a good woman to have. Even with more guns than make sense she still questions me when I sell one if its a good idea or better kept in inventory. Then its cameras (total Nikon freak) plus lenses, electric trains, antiques, jewelry, toy collection, wifes three sets of China/crystal, etc it gets squirrely on insurance. I bet 90% of people are underinsured. I know I am but count on the alarm and vaults to limit loses.
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