How often do you sit down at your reloading bench?

[papajoe222]

I was browsing through my loading records and noticed that I only acutally load about once every ten days. It didn't seem like I spent much time at all at my bench until I realized how much time is spent prepping vs. loading. With the extended brass prep that I do, not counting tumbling, I'm probably at my bench twice a week. I only load small batches and I am past working up loads until I purchase a new rifle/caliber.
How often do you sit down at your bench?

 

[Damon555]

Once I'm at the bench and set up I load everything I can get my hands on.....after that it might be over a year before I need to do anything....My Dillon 550b makes short work of a pile of components and I've got plenty of brass and bullets to keep a nice stock of all my rifle ammo too which I load on a single stage RCBS.

 

[Bill Norris]

Im at my bench every day since it doubles as my desk as well. Would be strange if I missed a day.

 

[Bc'z]

Its been months.
I have a seating depth test loaded long into the lands, now to find the time to push the bullets in @.002 increments just so I can take the time to turn the necks.
I might get this thing tuned in the next year.

 

[Downeast]

I sit down at my bench when I feel like it. Getting ready to work up some ammo that has to shoot 1/2 moa at 600 yards. My plan is to load 100 rounds and I plan on shooting a week from tomorrow. That doesn't leave me much time.

It all depends on what you want your ammo to do.

 

[Chappy]

With my work schedule right now and being on the road all the time, the nights I'm home for just the night I don't load anything, spend that precious 10-12 hours with the family. I load on my 10 day break I take off work every 2-3 months.

 

[LAH]

I never sit at the bench. I stand.

 

[chkunz]

I never sit at the bench. I stand.

Me too when I was younger but now I sit.

 

[JMayo]

I load allot. I'm at my bench doing something a couple hrs a day or I'm there 8 hrs.
I have a tv so i rest and watch it some.
When brass prepping i live there for a week !

 

[jackieschmidt]

Every time I go to the range, which is just about every Sunday.

 

[JB10]

I sit at mine every day. Its in a corner in my house, my own little sitting area. Now loading on it is different. Slowed down my shooting 3 years ago so i dont load as often now.

 

[Ernest T]

A couple times a week at least. I shoot handguns every Wednesday and rifles on one of the other days so there's always brass prep or something going on.

 

[jds holler]

My wife and I live in our "work shop" where we've made minor provisions for eating and sleeping.

I've got a small table with the basic outfit set up all the time next to the dining room table where we almost never eat. I own that area for whatever I want to do, and my chick has the largest bedroom of the house for her sewing room, craft shop, laboratory, -- and God only knows what she does in there.

One thing I've learned, is that it doesn't matter if I stay away from things for only one day, I'd better have good notes and documentation if I want to safely continue where I left off. -- And I never leave a scale, powder, primer, project set up waiting to be finished. I pretty much button things up and put them away before I wander off to bed. jd

 

[Ranger188]

All depends on if you live in cold and snow.
During the winter, could be 4-6 weeks or more.
During the summer, every couple days.

 

[762plinker]

lol 2 benches in the shop, one in the office.
nearly every day

 

[K22]

I like to load in small batches, usually no more than 20 to 40 rifle cases or 50 pistol cases in one session. Normally a couple times a week. I found that this method works best for me since by focusing on small batches, I'm less likely to get "sloppy" and make mistakes. I'm fortunate that I have the time for this approach.

I do load ahead in the winter, so I have an ample supply of ammo for upcoming varmint season and range practice in the spring and summer.

 

[nakneker]

I load pretty much everyday I’m home, I travel a lot so that’s not every day.

I too stand, my back likes it better.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Just about everyday, processing some brass. Couple times a week load a few shells, work on a firearm. Need to post season clean a couple upland shotguns, now that I thinking about it. If we didn't have 2+ ft of snow since early January I probably would have loaded some handgun rounds for practice. I recently replaced my old cordless drill, new Dewalt has more run time than I do, so I could work bigger batches of brass.

 

[Ray123]

I do not sit...always stand. Loading time depending on what I'm trying to accomplish... running a thousand or two pistol rds ..or accuracy rds...or cast bullet loadings. Sometimes every day then a few days off...its like a job. Then I go into new calibers and add that to my reloading chores. Along with cleaning cases, deburring, trimming, forming cases, etc. Plus chambering, threading barrels, machining breaks, bolt knobs, truing, dies, and general hobby machining, like motorcycle parts, "hobby improvement" parts.

 

[kenhwind]

We don't shoot as often as we used to and handguns more often than long guns, so I have most of my brass loaded up. Sure, I have brass I can load but do not need to.

Now when I am reloading, I am in the reloading room for a few hours a day until I am finished loading.