Hide reloading set-up?

[RugerSAFan]

Hi.

Do any of you "hide" your reloading area.

I recently purchased a home with an unfinished basement.
I also enjoy Lionel trains and will set-up a train table down there. Since the teenage kids may want to bring friends down to see the trains, it may make sense to put the reloading area in the small coal room in the basement.

I like the more open area of the basement, but don't need it announced to the teenage world of the reloading.

Shows how things have changed. Growing up, a buddies father was a former Army officer, reloaded like crazy, and shot pistols in their basement. Thought it was cool back then. Nowadays, some folks would be alarmed....

How do you folks keep your reloading set-ups / gun rooms "under-wrap"?

 

[ftierson]

Don't you hate it when you're raptured in the middle of a sentence?



I keep mine out of sight (and away from prying hands)...

Forrest

 

[TexasSkyhawk]

We don't have kids or grandkids, and very few friends who do. My reloading setup is in a stand-alone workshop behind the house. I'm generally the only one who goes in there.

Prior to moving back to Texas, other homes we lived in I had to use one of the spare bedrooms or office areas for my reloading. Didn't hide it, didn't apologize for it, and when guests with kids came over, I simply locked the door so they couldn't get in.

Your kids know you reload, and they're teenagers. Good opportunity for your kids to explain to any curious minds that may come over what responsible gun-ownership is all about.

Jeff

 

[Texastbird]

A man of your age playing with toy trains! But seriously, if the kids are responsible enough to be trusted alone with your expensive train collection, they should know enough to leave the reloading bench alone. I don't see a big problem as long as you keep the powder and primers put away.

 

[rcmodel]

Yep! I agree.

Keep the fireworks (power, primers loaded ammo) under lock & key.
And perhaps the scales too.

Scales have other uses besides weighing powder, or so I have heard!

rcmodel

 

[The Bushmaster]

I have a gun/reloading Room. About 10 by 8. Guns are locked away in a gun safe and the powder, primers and loaded rounds are out of reach. Very few kids enter my house and adults are given the thrill of touring my "man cave"...

 

[presspuller]

I made a room in my otherwise unfinished basement in the corner so I only had to put up two walls. I got a very heavy duty(commercial) metal door and frame with a commercial lockset and within reason its pretty bugular proof.
Other than being a locksmith or simply cutting thru the walls they aint getting in.
This is my room where I keep all my gun stuff. I have a work bench in there for the cleaning sessions. Its my man cave.

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

Reloading bench is just inside the garage door and visible to all passing by when the door is open. Finished ammo is stored under the table, powder and primers are stored in two other locations in the house.

 

[Walkalong]

My wife was gracious enough to let me take over my older sons room when he moved out. No little kids in the house. My 16 year old and an occasional friend. The primers are locked up. The ammo is not out in plain sight. The powder is not locked up. It is in a wooden toy box I built for my older son many years ago, complete with warning for the firefighters. I peeled it off a box that powder was shipped to me in.

 

[ants]

Of course, it's a personal decision. What works for me may not work for everyone else. Make your own decision based on your best judgement.

 

[brighamr]

My reloading setup is out of sight, but not necessarily "hidden". When I go on vacations, or when children are present... I lock the door to the room.

With your train table in the basement, I suggest either a locked cabinet/safe for primers/scales/powder/bullets; or using the coal room with a lock on the door.

 

[sharps59]

the coal room will work great thats what i use.
you can close the door kids can have friends over.
and you will not be disturbed or interupted. that is the last thing you want when reloading. one missed step is all it takes:banghead:
no matter how good your kids are out of sight out of mind is best.

 

[aerod1]

I have my "reloading bench" set up in a spare bedroom. It is nothing but a "Work Mate" clone that has a "Lee Classic Cast Turret" press and a "Lee Reloader" single stage press mounted on it. I leave it up most of the time. When my Grandchildren come over, I tell them what is is and show them how it works, just the same as I do with my guns. I believe in taking away the mystique of all this "gun stuff" I am involved in. Hopefully that way they won't be temted to be inquisitive when I am not around. My guns are in the safe. I am now teaching my 5 yr. old Grandson how to shoot 22's. His sister is still too young.
All of my friends know how I am about my guns and they seem to respect my opinions. Of course my friends are all gun people.

 

[Floppy_D]

I have a bike chain on my Dillon 450 to keep my boy from pulling the handle. The powder and primers are stored in a locker, so that's not the worry. I found it one day with a bunch of orange bits all over it. He was using the press to smash goldfish crackers.

 

[smith627]

My reloading room is similar to others in that it is set up in a spare bedroom in our furnished basement. Half the room is mine for my bench and Liberty safe and supplies and the other half is set up with my wife's sewing machine table and supplies. It is lockable and I have several 2 & 4 drawer lockable metal file cabinets for ammo and reloading components.

 

[elkhuntingfool]

Hide? No. Out of the sight? Yes. In the 'man room' downstairs. The kids know it's there, but have no desire to mess with it or show anyone.