Just seeing this now, but it seems you already took the initiative and built yourself a bench - awesome!
I was just going to say that I built a VERY STURDY gardening/potting cart for my wife out of very well seasoned (i.e. nearly petrified) hardwood pallets that a local company advertised as free in craigslist, using nothing more than a circular saw, drill & bits and some deck screws. It could serve just as well as a reloading station. The cart turned out very similar to what bds made in an earlier post.
The hardest part of the whole build was deconstructing the pallets - that took some SERIOUS effort, and I'm not kidding. My hands were aching for days with all the pounding and beating I had to do to get those things apart. And the wood was so seasoned that nearly half of the boards split, mostly near the ends, but I got enough to make what I needed. As was mentioned, pre-drilling was a requirement - I broke off more than one deck screw trying to drive it in without drilling first.
I still like recycling things and using them to make what I need.
I also have an 8' section of laminate counter top that I garbage picked out of a dumpster that was sitting in an office building parking lot (it was the company I worked for at the time, but I let it get to the dumpster first so there was no worries of 'stealing company assets'). That would make a fine reloading bench as well with a framework made up of pallet lumber.