mike6161
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Here my bench I’m a new reloader so I don’t have a lot of stuff but I can put it all in a box.
Show us a picture of your reloading bench
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freakshow10mm
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I started out on a Lee hand press. Still have it.
mike6161
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I got it from my dad he used it for many years and then gave it to me. I love it its a greats scale.
Hello High Road,
I still haven't put shots up of my bench and what's fair is fair. So here is my humble cave. It's about as clean as I can make it but this is how I clean up after every load session.
1st pic is of the bench looking down the line. 10' of wood, and 4 presses.
1 x 650 for 9mm, 1 x 650 for 45acp.
2nd Pic is Brass prep area.
3rd Pic is my Main load area - Rifles, and some Hand guns.
4th pic is where I keep my Dies, Beam scale, powder throw, hand primer, and measuring tools and other various gadgets, whips, chains and yo-yo's.
5th pic is when I really need to wind down, I'll load about 10 - 20 rounds doing this method. Any more starts the aggro factor all over again.
I have another bench behind me where I keep my Tumbler (I use an old Midway model 1292, I think. a bit old and small but it still works). I also store my bullets and powders there, too but we all know what that stuff looks like. My primers are kept in a safe box below my main load area but I try not to keep more than 2,000 on hand at any given time due to my own paranoid reasons
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Aloha Nui Loa...
I still haven't put shots up of my bench and what's fair is fair. So here is my humble cave. It's about as clean as I can make it but this is how I clean up after every load session.
1st pic is of the bench looking down the line. 10' of wood, and 4 presses.
1 x 650 for 9mm, 1 x 650 for 45acp.
2nd Pic is Brass prep area.
3rd Pic is my Main load area - Rifles, and some Hand guns.
4th pic is where I keep my Dies, Beam scale, powder throw, hand primer, and measuring tools and other various gadgets, whips, chains and yo-yo's.
5th pic is when I really need to wind down, I'll load about 10 - 20 rounds doing this method. Any more starts the aggro factor all over again.
I have another bench behind me where I keep my Tumbler (I use an old Midway model 1292, I think. a bit old and small but it still works). I also store my bullets and powders there, too but we all know what that stuff looks like. My primers are kept in a safe box below my main load area but I try not to keep more than 2,000 on hand at any given time due to my own paranoid reasons
. Aloha Nui Loa...
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presspuller
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Man! what I would give to have hair like that.:banghead:
gloriavoxdei
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Wow, I've been lurking on this thred for months. I'll try to get a pic of my little bench on here soon.
LAH
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Welcome gloriavoxdei. Good to have you here & look forward to the bench picture..........Creeker
ZeSpectre
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Yea, I get to join!
No where near as fancy as most of you guys, heck I still need to get a few more items (like powder and primers) before I'm ready to roll, but I just tumbled and resized/decapped my very first batch of .38 special
No where near as fancy as most of you guys, heck I still need to get a few more items (like powder and primers
) before I'm ready to roll, but I just tumbled and resized/decapped my very first batch of .38 special
TexasSkyhawk
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A few things I didn't include in the first round of pics for my reloading area.
Here's my casting table
Work area for finishing up the boolits, ingots, moulds, etc.
Reloading bench and corner of the shop.
Jeff
Here's my casting table
Work area for finishing up the boolits, ingots, moulds, etc.
Reloading bench and corner of the shop.
Jeff
VonFatman
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Jeff,
That's a darn nice set-up! Is it important to have your casting area in a well ventilated area?
Bob
That's a darn nice set-up! Is it important to have your casting area in a well ventilated area?
Bob
BullsEye10x
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Here's mine
Here's my humble setup in the garage. Just got everything a few weeks ago and made my first batch of .38's
I am very happy with the LCT press and highly recommend it!
Here's my humble setup in the garage. Just got everything a few weeks ago and made my first batch of .38's
I am very happy with the LCT press and highly recommend it!
TexasSkyhawk
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Bob,
Thanks. What's not shown in the picture is to the left of the casting table is the air-conditioning unit, plus a pedestal fan that sits behind me and to the left.
To the right (also out of the picture) is the door. Most of my casting is done at night when it's cooler. I open the door a bit, and sit a "turbo" fan pointing outward to pull any fumes/smoke from the flux from the casting furnace to the outside.
I do all my smelting on the back covered deck of the house in the open.
I also double my Vitamin C intake a day or so before I cast/smelt, and for several days afterward.
Jeff
brighamr
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My fairly new setup:
This is all I currently load:
This is all I currently load:
LAH
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Looks nice brighamr.......Creeker
jwalt01
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here is mine with my L-N-L
fireflyfather
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Learned something new tonight: When using a Lee Loader, put carpet under a 2x4 instead of banging on the bench top.....nice.
Hey Firefly,
Yeah, I put a couple of shop rags down or I'll just lay the 2x4 across my lap and load that way. I shaved the powder dipper for this 38 spcl kit down to load an easy 3.0 gr of Bullseye by shaking it leveled off for 158 gr LSWC projos. It performs flawlessly. I really enjoy using these old school tools. Especially listening to some good ole Merle Haggard. It takes me back to a time when I was a boy and I was learning all about shooting, handloading, and all that goes with it. You know, that quality time with Dad showing you how to be a man.
Cheers...
Yeah, I put a couple of shop rags down or I'll just lay the 2x4 across my lap and load that way. I shaved the powder dipper for this 38 spcl kit down to load an easy 3.0 gr of Bullseye by shaking it leveled off for 158 gr LSWC projos. It performs flawlessly. I really enjoy using these old school tools. Especially listening to some good ole Merle Haggard. It takes me back to a time when I was a boy and I was learning all about shooting, handloading, and all that goes with it. You know, that quality time with Dad showing you how to be a man.
Cheers...
[email protected]
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Old Merle, gotta have Kern River & Mama tried in that collection somewhere.
"the first thing I remember knowing, was a lonesome whistle blowing...."
All that and more, Mate.
Too bad I had a couple of cold ones, that music makes me either want to handload or drink!!!
I think I'll just sit here and drink... LOL...
Cheers, JM and THR Crew, this drinks for all of you.
All that and more, Mate.
Too bad I had a couple of cold ones, that music makes me either want to handload or drink!!!
I think I'll just sit here and drink... LOL...
Cheers, JM and THR Crew, this drinks for all of you.
4Runner06
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I Became A Reloader Totally By Accident
Stepgrandson just got out of Marine bootcamp and training for an intelligence unit then promptly volunteered for duty in Iraq. Is he brave or what? He leaves next month. Last year his dad (also an ex-Marine) got a call from the ex-spouse of a buddy of his who used to be a mechanic for United Airlines in Indianapolis saying she had all this strange "junk" in her attic that she didn't know what to do with that her ex had never taken with him when he left. She asked my stepson to come and take it away. My stepson went over to the house and found a bunch of reloading equipment barely used. He called me down here in Tampa knowing I go to the range frequently and had recently gotten my CCP and asked if I had any use for it as he moves around so much he hasn't any place to set up and doesn't shoot much anymore even though he has dozens of rifles and goes camping whenever he can. I said yes of course I'll take it I have been getting killed with ammo prices and this is just the solution. At about the same time I had taken a new position here in Tampa and one of my co-workers, an ex-Navy man, and I got to talking about guns and it so happened we both frequented the same outdoor target range. Incredibly, he turned out to be a reloader. So, I got him to agree that if I brought all of this gear down from Indy he would help me set it up. So in May of 07 the wife and I and the 3 dogs took the SUV up to Indy and wined and dined and pizza'ed all of my stepson's kids and him as well, every day for a week. I figure I paid twice the market value for the reloading gear in meal costs that went into the coffers of Carrabba's and several other notable eateries in the Indianapolis area that week! However knowing I was getting a reloading set up into the bargain made those meals that much more satisfying. I spent a sweltering day in his storage unit looking at all kinds of strange machinery I had no idea what to do with. When we got what looked good together and threw everything else out, I bubble wrapped every piece and stowed it in the SUV for the trip back. It must have weighed a few hundred pounds. Back home in Tampa I found the RMLS website and reviewed some reloading texts lent to me by my ex-Navy co-worker and settled on a modified version of the original German bench design. The result is as you see here. It's small and in my garage but it would take a bomb to make it move. I've been reloading for about a year now and love every minute of it. The money saved and the improved accuracy at the range are just unbelievable. All I had to buy was the lumber for the bench and a few die sets, powder and primers. I had inherited some 30.06 shells that my Navy friend happily took for his rifle in exchange for a nice stainless steel caliper and a digital battery powder scale that works just fine. (The Lyman manual scale I got from the Indy deal just would not work for me.) I reload .32 auto, 357 Magnum, and .38 Special. Thanks for letting me join your group.
Stepgrandson just got out of Marine bootcamp and training for an intelligence unit then promptly volunteered for duty in Iraq. Is he brave or what? He leaves next month. Last year his dad (also an ex-Marine) got a call from the ex-spouse of a buddy of his who used to be a mechanic for United Airlines in Indianapolis saying she had all this strange "junk" in her attic that she didn't know what to do with that her ex had never taken with him when he left. She asked my stepson to come and take it away. My stepson went over to the house and found a bunch of reloading equipment barely used. He called me down here in Tampa knowing I go to the range frequently and had recently gotten my CCP and asked if I had any use for it as he moves around so much he hasn't any place to set up and doesn't shoot much anymore even though he has dozens of rifles and goes camping whenever he can. I said yes of course I'll take it I have been getting killed with ammo prices and this is just the solution. At about the same time I had taken a new position here in Tampa and one of my co-workers, an ex-Navy man, and I got to talking about guns and it so happened we both frequented the same outdoor target range. Incredibly, he turned out to be a reloader. So, I got him to agree that if I brought all of this gear down from Indy he would help me set it up. So in May of 07 the wife and I and the 3 dogs took the SUV up to Indy and wined and dined and pizza'ed all of my stepson's kids and him as well, every day for a week. I figure I paid twice the market value for the reloading gear in meal costs that went into the coffers of Carrabba's and several other notable eateries in the Indianapolis area that week! However knowing I was getting a reloading set up into the bargain made those meals that much more satisfying. I spent a sweltering day in his storage unit looking at all kinds of strange machinery I had no idea what to do with. When we got what looked good together and threw everything else out, I bubble wrapped every piece and stowed it in the SUV for the trip back. It must have weighed a few hundred pounds. Back home in Tampa I found the RMLS website and reviewed some reloading texts lent to me by my ex-Navy co-worker and settled on a modified version of the original German bench design. The result is as you see here. It's small and in my garage but it would take a bomb to make it move. I've been reloading for about a year now and love every minute of it. The money saved and the improved accuracy at the range are just unbelievable. All I had to buy was the lumber for the bench and a few die sets, powder and primers. I had inherited some 30.06 shells that my Navy friend happily took for his rifle in exchange for a nice stainless steel caliper and a digital battery powder scale that works just fine. (The Lyman manual scale I got from the Indy deal just would not work for me.) I reload .32 auto, 357 Magnum, and .38 Special. Thanks for letting me join your group.
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BullsEye10x
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4Runner06,
That's a great story and certainly a unique way to get into reloading. Enjoy your new hobby, and tell tell your grandson "Semper Fi" for me!
That's a great story and certainly a unique way to get into reloading. Enjoy your new hobby, and tell tell your grandson "Semper Fi" for me!
