Gun room/ reloading room/ man cave

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I wish I had that much space.

Mine is in the smaller bedroom of a two bedroom apartment.

I have a Dillon RL550B and a Rockchucker bolted to a Black & Decker Workmate in a wide closet. Consumables are in a fireproof filing cabinet.

My reloading gear shares space with my servers and about 20% of my library.
 
Hhhhhmmmmm, that sounds familiar :) . Until the real estate market here in the valley settles down and returns to somewhat normal and I move out of here and into a house with a fenced yard that's pretty much where I'm at in this two bedroom apartment. The smaller bedroom is my mancave / computer room / reloading room. There's a good size window that takes up the majority of the north wall, and my computer desk is right next to my reloading bench with a halogen torch lamp between them for additional light on the East wall. The South Wall is closet space and the West Wall has the door and next to that is my rolling tool chest and then my gun cabinet in the corner of the West and north wall and I hung a 48 in flat screen TV on the West Wall above the tool chest that's hooked up to my satellite dish and to my custom-built computer tower. I decided to put the TV on the wall behind me when I'm setting at the reloading bench or my computer desk that way I can listen to whatever is on it and still concentrate on what I'm doing without being distracted and it seems to work out rather well :) ...
 
beeenbag said:
so as I posted a while back, I bought a new house and the furnished basement was to be my man command center so to speak. The ideas changed a little, I’m keeping the kitchen for a game cleaning processing kitchen and a canning kitchen, but here’s the rest, still in progress of course.

What do ya think?
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One suggestion, don't use your case tumbler indoors or switch to a wet tumbler or ultrasonic cleaner if you want to avoid lead contamination. I use a bit of odorless mineral spirits and NuCar finish but still the granules, dust, with my case tumbler but I tumble them and leave the case tumbler outside the house. Do all of my dirty brass handling outside.
 
Nice. Man cave potential will be high on the list of criteria for our retirement home.
 
But you need some of these. If you know where to stand, Cubans will fall out of the sky and hit you in the head.:D
 

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gsbuickman said:
Hhhhhmmmmm, that sounds familiar :) . Until the real estate market here in the valley settles down and returns to somewhat normal and I move out of here and into a house with a fenced yard that's pretty much where I'm at in this two bedroom apartment. The smaller bedroom is my mancave / computer room / reloading room. There's a good size window that takes up the majority of the north wall, and my computer desk is right next to my reloading bench with a halogen torch lamp between them for additional light on the East wall. The South Wall is closet space and the West Wall has the door and next to that is my rolling tool chest and then my gun cabinet in the corner of the West and north wall and I hung a 48 in flat screen TV on the West Wall above the tool chest that's hooked up to my satellite dish and to my custom-built computer tower. I decided to put the TV on the wall behind me when I'm setting at the reloading bench or my computer desk that way I can listen to whatever is on it and still concentrate on what I'm doing without being distracted and it seems to work out rather well :) ...
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The computer desk (a folding table with a built-in adjustable keyboard shelf) faces the only window, which faces East. It's high off the floor, almost like a basement window.

On the North-South walls are five 6'x3' bookcases and a fireproof filing cabinet full of reloading consumables. The western-most bookcases is almost all gun books.

The West wall has a wide closet in which the work bench and reloading gear stay. The workbench has a 2'x4' sheet of plywood bolted to onto which are bolted the presses and my RCBS powder measure for the Rockchucker.

I could use more space, but a lot of the shelf space is wasted with obsolete computer gear and old magazines. I'm taking care of that now.
 
MI2600 said:
Man cave work benches should be covered with paint stains, parts of things that you've forgotten where they go, at least three or four half-finished projects, miscellaneous tools that you should part back in their place, and be backed by a peg board that is covered with tools that came from garage sales and you have forgotten what they do.
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You been hangin around my place?
 
It is every shooter/reloader/hunter/collector's dream to have everything in one location......guns, ammo, gun cabinets, reloading bench and components, gun cleaning station, posters, trophies, safe(s),....all in one large beautiful, well-appointed secure well lit room. I'm 71 and have had various arrangements that fall well short of ideal. I still have it in my plan.....someday....maybe.
 
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