Such a sad place. If reloading components were contagious this is what our rooms would look like.
Moving into new house -- has a nice shop, a portion of which was heated / cooled / insulated wood shop. It's being converted to reloading room / weight room. This an existing cabinet -- I'm thinking of making it my reloading bench -- it's solid and attached to the wall. I'm a huge fan of putting T-track on the reloading bench. Seeking input on:
1) Putting t track directly into the laminate countertop
2)overlaying double laminated 3/4 in plywood on it and putting T-Track in that -- that's what my previous bench was (stand alone bench, not attached to the wall, so it has some wobble to it)
I still have my old standalone bench, so I can use it until I figure out if / how to use this as the primary bench.
Old bench (has doors on it now)
Last edited by 0802; 11-21-2020 at 08:19 PM.
I actually have four of them. The two at the top of the pic are black powder. The one on the left is for my cannon (it has the largest drop tube Q-M makes), and the other is for my BP guns. On the left side of the pic is one attached to my P-W Metallic II. The fourth one (out-of-picture) has a really tall reservoir tube and I use it for rifle calibers. The company owner is responsive and will work w/ you to give you want you want.
I have been using them for 10-years and like them a lot. They meter to within .1gr w/o a problem and are basically a semi-automatic version of the B&M, which I also use.
They are pricey and additional tubes are $5 each. I bought a bunch of different-length tubes as the company owner is getting older and I do not know how long the company will be around. I think they are worth the investment, especially if you do a lot of rifle caliber reloading.
Member: Orange Gunsite Family, NRA-Life, ARTCA, American Legion, & the South Cuyahoga Gun Club.
Caveat Emptor: Do not trust Cavery Grips/American Gripz/Prestige Grips/Stealth Grips from Clayton, NC. He will rip you off.
Just added an M6 57mm AT round to the bench courtesy of a tag-sale. A separate solid-shot warhead is on its left. They are to the top of the pic, right side, to the right of my white hat.
That is the round our airborne forces used in their AT guns from 1944. The puny little 37mm AT to its right is what we started WW2 with.
Last edited by Kevin Rohrer; 12-20-2020 at 10:06 AM.
Member: Orange Gunsite Family, NRA-Life, ARTCA, American Legion, & the South Cuyahoga Gun Club.
Caveat Emptor: Do not trust Cavery Grips/American Gripz/Prestige Grips/Stealth Grips from Clayton, NC. He will rip you off.
It's doing just fine in satisfying my reloading needs. It's sped up a lot since I got the Powder Measure. I can reload about 25 an hour if I've started from deprimed brass. I can boost that to about 50 an hour when I'm using primed, expanded, and sized brass that I keep handy in my reloading tubs.
Considering that the largest volume I've shot so far in a single session is 100 rounds, this relatively slow speed is perfectly acceptable.
Love how much reloading equipment, everyone seems to have. I think I have enough to take care of my needs until I pass on.. but again I only need to load up a couple times a month if that. Great photos guys.
Last edited by Deakota57; 12-17-2020 at 02:54 PM.
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jr545 Oh my, nice. My barn has a dirt floor, I got part of a room in my house to reload.
Last edited by Deakota57; 12-17-2020 at 03:09 PM.
It takes more than just reading, to prepare a young soldier for battle.
Your experience means the world to the young.
People get more Reloading Equipment s time goes by due to the the idea that it makes them better loaders. You can load perfect ammo with a Lee Classic Loader and a Plastic Mallet. I do recommend some kind of scale to weigh powder charges and a different priming tool.
When I got my first Lee Loader in 1971 I went back the next day and bought a Lee Priming Tool, and then the next week I bought a Redding Powder Scale. By this time I'm into this hobby about $25 and I'm loading .243 Winchester for my Sako Rifle and I'm getting quarter sized Groups at 100 yards with my own ammo. I was loading at a desk in my room in the barracks at Randolph AFB... I needed nothing more and could easily go right back today.
Of course now I have my BPM Hand Press which is a cut above a Lee Loader but my space requirements are the same as I load mostly at my dinner table.
After I advanced to a Rock Chucker after I got a .44 Magnum Pistol in 1978 and needed a higher output, I then built my first bench. A 2x3' piece of 3/4" plywood clamped in a B&D Workmate which I still have and my Bro In Law has the plywood mounted on his Workmate with his Rock Chucker and D550B bolted to it.
I have a nice dedicated Loading Bench in my shop with my Rock Chucker mounted along with a C&H 444 and a Lyman Boolit Sizer. It has drawers in a column down the center of the bench that contain all my Reloading Tools I have accumulated over the last 50 years including that first Lee Loader. I use it mainly for assembling Specialty Shotshell Loads.
I load mainly at the Kitchen Table now. Using my BPM Hand Press. And everything I need fits in a tool bag.
Randy
"It's not how well you do what you know how to do,,,It's how well you do what you DON'T know how to do!"
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I always thought those holywoods were big but when you see them next to a regular press they really stand out
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |