How often do you sit down at your reloading bench?

[NZ_Fclass]

I always ssit to reload. I have my bench at standard desk height, but have a high wooden stool that my wife found in a charity shop. My Dillon 550b has a power stand. I use Dillon as a turret press - ie, not progressive. I'm moving my reloading room indoors after Easter, for more space to add a Super Trickler. The annealer and case tumbler will stay in the shed, with powder storage.

 

[Homerange]

I always sit to reload. I have my bench at standard desk height, but have a high wooden stool that my wife found in a charity shop.

Also and at standard 30"/750mm table height also but on a short stool so die height is near eye level.
Ideally bench height 36"/900mm would be better so to use a normal height chair.
Generally at the bench roughly monthly but maybe not loading but instead prep or just keeping the place tidy or checking component levels.
Load for 410, not so much 12g these days as trap loads are cheaper brought, 222, 223, 243, 6mm Rem, 7mm/08 and 308.

You home yet from sorting family stuff overseas ?

 

[Jager]

Pretty much everyday. My bench is right next to my bed - if I wake up in the middle of the night I can see the glow of the LED in the head of the AutoTrickler and the silhouette of the Coax press.

Brass and bullets and whatever I'm presently working on are the last thing I see when I turn off the light at night, and the first thing I see when I get up in the morning.

Makes me happy.

 

[6MMsteve]

Not as much as I would like to, but yesterday I was installing a barrel so I spent some time there cleaning my action and cleaning inspecting my Rem 700 bolt, but it's a quiet place for me also listen to music and think about shooting a match

 

[MUP]

Not near a often as I'd like for sure. Bench time equates to range time for me, and I'm not getting as much of either as I'd like these days, just life in general for bench time, but I have rounds loaded to test and the dang weather is mostly the reason I don't get to shoot it seems, brutal blustery days or heavy rain seem to be the only weather we have lately.

 

[drop_point]

I'm home 3-4 nights per week. I usually load at least one or two of those evenings between dinner and bed time.

 

[jelenko]

never leave a scale, powder, primer, project set up waiting to be finished.

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[jelenko]

During the winter, 2-3 times a week. During the summer, 4-5 times.
With competing in 'cross the course', I go through a fair number of rounds in practice/matches. I try to keep some inventory of rounds on hand - but not too many for the times that I discover an issue with the load.

With my dry fire area right next to the loading area, I'm in the area 5-7 times a week through out the year.

 

[Rocketvapor]

I have an indoor corner that has my scale and press.
When the wife and I get home from a practice session or an F-Class match I toss the spent cases into the tumbler out in the garage then a little internet time (especially if I have something to brag about) then usually a NAP.
When I get up it's dump the cases from the media and the media from the cases.
Once it gets dark I set up the annealer in the kitchen, run some calibration cases (loose pocket) then anneal the brass.
Over the next couple of days I body size, measure case length and trim, deburr, and neck size.

I'm working with 2 different cases, 22 Nosler/Dogtown, and necked and bumped 6mm Hagar for 22 Nosgar. Slight setup differences. Sometimes I get ahead of the game and have a couple hundred cases for each ready to prime and charge.
I bought a used Lyman Gen 5 dispenser to drop a charge and then check with my EJ-54D2 and pinch in or out to get a little closer. The Lyman is ALMOST good enough.
It usually takes a couple days to charge and seat. Wife helps, sometimes, with some of this.
(You shoot you gonna reload).

If I don't stay ahead of the game I spend several days sitting at the bench before a match.
Off to a match today

 

[JFrank]

It’s been frozen for months at my place.

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.

Put yer helmet on and get back in the game Bro !

 

[williepete]

everyday

 

[Sleepyhollow]

Everyday it's my escape from my real world job as a general contractor. I may not load every day but I'm always testing something. I'm fortunate enough to have a range out my back door.

 

[jackson1]

Back in the day when I was working and had my sons at home, I could go many days without visiting my shop. Retired 10 years ago and now get down there every day for a few hours. I am an anal- retentive old fool. I attempt to improve everything. All of my brass is fully preped, my rifles have every modification I am aware of done to them. My shotguns and pistols have received similar treatment. A couple of years ago I made the decision to only keep 50 loaded rounds per rifle, so I spent one winter doing a lot of de-loading. Refinished all my wood stocks, made some pistol grips and more shotguns shells than I care to admit. This past winter I have been making small improvements to all my benches. I now go down there and sit and look at my shop and wonder what improvement I can dream up next. My granddaughters used to come down, ride my old John Deere pedal tractor around the basement and stop buy my shop and want to fix things for me. I would then hand them a couple of dollars. Used to listen to conservative talk radio, but that has become a lost cause for me. Can stand the endless Aaron Rodgers discussions on sports talk radio so I quit that (I am a Packer fan). Lately I have been listening to country. Parker McCollum's Handle On You is a current favorite. Happily, the weather should get nicer in the next couple of weeks so I will get back to the range. and then have more to do in my shop. Next years I may have take up knitting.

 

[rjtfroggy]

I sit in mine 4-5 times a week. I don't load every time but I go sit there for peace and quiet and think of things I could do to improve my space.

 

[Chuckhunter]

As you can see by the picture, my set up allows me to stand most of the time but I do sit when sorting bullets and seating bullets. I'm in the room almost Dailey.

 

[RICK SMITH]

I never sit, don't listen to music. I try not to get distracted, stay focused and pay attention. I'm in my reloading shop everyday doing something, my cat is the one that takes over the stool.

 

[Hoser]

I stand at my bench... But I am in my reloading room doing something several days a week. Everything from brass prep to loading to keeping it clean, etc.

 

[Bill K]

I stand at my bench, never sit down. As for how often I use the bench. It varies, off season, once a week or so, to prep stuff.
During season, each time I return, I reload what I shot that day. So that can be once to maybe three times a week.

 

[Texas Solo]

Since retirement I'm at the bench nearly every day. Brass prep mostly. I'll fully process 50 a day. I have 2000 each 223 & 308. When I need ammo, brass is ready.

 

[JSH]

Not nearly as much as I used too. For a number of years if I wasn’t loading, I was either casting or lube sizing. I would load a bunch through the fall/winter/early spring. 6-8 IHMSA rigs all with close to 500 pieces of brass, 4-5 milsurps 2-400 each, 38&45 1000+ each, all with cast. One rifle for FTR in 308, 400 rounds, the only jacketed. That was enough to keep me going a little past half way in seasonal matches.
Life and interest changes, they say you go full circle. I went back to wheel guns and got pretty involved for quite a while (where I started). Got back into varmint hunting and rifles, speed freak came out in me. 17’s-6mms, there is always a couple of rigs ready to go at a moment’s notice if need be.

No adult supervision is my down fall.