When your wife restricts your reloading to a closet

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:) I reload in the mid to late mornings, run a good fan (except when weighing powders) and have plenty of iced tea in-hand. Born and raised a Texas boy, I'm used to it...but the A/C sure feels good afterwards!
Shivahasagun said:
Well, you're a tough guy.

I couldn't reload if that were my workspace.
And the cost of adding AC would really impact the savings!
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I share the wife's craft room. I have a 5x6 space, shelves, and still not enough room. I need to downsize a pile of stuff. Is there a pay it forward thread for AR parts or other oddball stuff?
 
jmorris said:
You will know your on your way up. Says you A: have an extra closet and B: you are not loading in the garage. Keep up the good work and you’ll have a reloading room before you know it. ;)
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I’ve had two reloading rooms in the past, it’s a matter of how much space our house has. Active military and I move every ~3 years. We’ve been married 11 years, lived in 5 houses.

two reloading rooms, two garages, and now a closet

I’m
Hoping my next place has a big basement I can take over
 
Metal God said:
Everything needs it's own space and it must be put back right away after use or you can't start something new do to lack of space available .
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That's really my only big gripe... I can only have one, maybe two processes going on at one time. If you look at the photo of my bench, I have the smaller RCBS RS3 press to the left... I have to mount and dismount it as duty requires, depending on what I'm doing at the time. I still have my Rock Chucker mounted in the garage, where I do all my rifle sizing, and where I can do small things on the press real quick without having to remount the RS3. Just one more foot of bench space would make a big difference...
 
lordpaxman said:
So you guys are all coming out of the closet???
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Not me. I'm still hiding in the swamp. ;)

The world is my reloading room.
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I remember a story about a guy who got married and after about six months his wife told him that he should sell his guns and reloading equipment as she thought he was spending too much time on them. He told her she sounded like his ex-wife. She said he never told her he was married before. He told her he wasn't married before and she never complained about his guns and reloading equipment again.
 
.308 Norma said:
Reloaders tend to still have one foot in the closet. I'm a Handloader and proud of it!:D
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I thought reloading was what you did when all the bullets was fired and the gun goes "click" - you reload so you can make it go "bang" again. Handloading is what you do to make reloads.:D
 
I've had this discussion with my wife:

"Whipped bad" means your wife bosses you a little or a lot and you arent getting any.

"Whipped good" means your wife bosses you a little or a lot but you also get action.

Guys have told me "whipped is whipped".

Whatever, I'm "good" here. :D

My reloading space is fine but one can never have enough storage space.
 
You have done a very good job maximizing the utility of a small space. Congratulations.

My wife exiled me to the garage as soon as we were married.
 
I am impressed with the OP’s reloading closet.

My first reloading area was adapted to part of my car shop. The car shop was basically a two car garage connected to the house with HVAC off the house system and insulated. The laundry machines were also out there. I race amateur road racing so a good shop was a must.

Every move since, and there were four, we have bought a house with an area that I could use for reloading. Also, my wife had a place for her needle work and other hobby activities.

You got to kerp everyone happy to keep the peace.
 
Wife never limited me, I looked around for unused space and settled on my hot water heater closet in the attch 2 car (1 1/2 really) garage.

Easy decision, just like money; we both know there's only so much and it must cover everything.
 
Tilos said:
OK, slow cold day, so more pics of my loading closet.
I built this swing-up shelf for cleaning/working on handguns, the brackets I used came from amazon and are rated at 300# each.
Shelf down:
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Shelf up, with brackets used, 1 folded, 1 locked unfolded (note the circled release lever):
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I like narrow shelves because I can only put 1 item deep on them, so I have a lot of them/up to the 7' ceilings!
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Shelves over press:
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I like it, looks like you made good use of the space! If I would change anything, it would be to take that clip on light off and put a led strip under that shelf and get way more light and less heat, wont bang your forehead on it either. I bought a 4' led strip light at walmart for $12 and you can plug more lights into like a daisy chain, also give 5500 lumens so bright.
 
beeenbag said:
Man you guys really utilize the small spaces efficiently. I have a pretty large “gun dungeon” and I feel like my setup isn’t nearly as efficient as it could be now. Here’s my room, not nearly as thought out lol.

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I like that, I would epoxy the floors with that kit for garage's, it seals the floor, makes it nice, cheap, and will stop sweating, super easy to clean up as well
 
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