My portable Reloading Room project.
First - I am very jealous of most of the setups I have seen and read about here. You guys are very creative and have done a wonderful job with creating your personalized Reloading Rooms.
I have been reloading since 1972. Started out with a board clamped to my dorm desk at college. Advanced to a 42" square table bolted to center of floor in a bedroom of my mobile home. That allowed me to have setups on all four sides. Worked well, until I bought a house. There I had a long table top bolted to a wall = nice setup.
Then I got married !!!!!! Things changed !!!! Moved three times. Had 2 kids. Moved again. 17 years later got divorced. 8 years later re-married. This wife wants me to have a nice reloading room, but no space in our small town-house.
The following is a result of wanting to have everything I need to be a Match Director of sanctioned FCSA matches in a trailer and a reloading setup that allows different loadings to be tested at the range. Can't haul everything, so I restrict myself to just three calibers of supplies in trailer.
Please understand - this is a work in-progress - lots of things in the trailer that may not stay - just working out how everything will fit.
Rear View
Closer view thru rear.
Closer view but angled towards front.
Thru side door looking forward.
Thru side door looking straight in. RCBS Rockchucker press is being installed.
Thru side door looking upward towards storage locker bolted to wall and ceiling with three 50BMG target rifles enclosed. Closedcell foam is installed to protect rifles during transport. Locker is lockable and trailer is locked on doors and double-locked on hitch. Security system installed, but needs fine-tuning. Un-authorized moving of trailer locks the electric trailer brakes and sounds 135db alarm. And a heavy log chain with locks is used while in storage.
A close-up view of AR-50 in storage.
(A 48" similar locker is bolted to opposite wall for smaller rifles.)
So did anyone notince the Pingle mounts on floor and KTM tie-down straps?
My KTM530EXC will fit in backwards with room to spare. Much easier riding my street-legal dirtbike to check targets at 1000 yards or at a mile or more. Trying to leave room for my Stinger missle case which has been modified into a trailer for hauling a 50BMG rifle or others behind my KTM. Wheels are removeable from case and will need to be stored somewhere - haven't figured that out yet - not on top, not on front, maybe attached to rear ramp, which will then fold into and above front fender of motorcycle.
Bad view of my bike. This way of hauling didn't work so well, caused truck to over heat. Besides, I'm not using that vehicle to tow my reloading trailer.
Wife would not let me use this trailer.
Trailer is bigger than our townhouse in background. (Town-house is 1 of 4 units.)