That box for my press,dies and a powder measure might be the best spent money in here. And yes, that's a cheap rcbs uniflo. With a few simple mods, it beats most of the fancier, more expensive ones.
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What is your favorite part of your reloading room?
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Andy Work
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That is clean and organized compared to the cluster foxtrot that my loading room is.
I had to move stuff to open the door! Not quite...but almost. Lol!
Here's another picture, some people like turret presses, I am content with 4 single presses. Mostly because I collected them over 35 years, and yes like most of us, it took 35 plus years to have what I have. But the Favorite part of my Reloading Room is, it is my Space, MAN CAVE.
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I wanna talk about this for a minute, referring to the box that I have the press mounted to. I friend that I shoot with built it(and the cabinets) for me and a few others I know. It can be more permanently mounted but I just use a c clamp to clamp it to the table because that's all it takes to hold it and it allows me to remove it easily. I seldom load at the range(match) any more but that box lets me take my press, powder measure and dies as well as I can put a bunch of stuff inside of it to keep pretty much every single item I need either inside or mounted to the box. I just unclamp it and can carry the whole shebang ione hand to the truck. Same when I unload. Just a clamp and ready to roll my own.
He makes it so that the strength critical areas are dovetailed and screwed/glued together and it's very strong. I've loaded literally..guessing here well over 100,000 rounds on this thing and it seems to be as strong as new. He's very reasoble on them. I can't remember exactly how much and with inflation these days, can't keep up but call it about $60 bucks. Can't beat that, IMO. I can get you in touch with him or let me know and I can probably get one for you if interested. I don't think you'll be disappointed in it. Forgot to mention, it puts everything at just the right height for me, on my work bench too. I'll try to add a couple of better pics in a minute so you can get a better look.
Love the little led lights inside of the press. I added the holes for the dies and love that too. Also added the holes for an ammo tray but I could definitely live with or without those. Kinda a pain getting primers of of them. I might open a few of them up big enough to hold shell holders.
He makes it so that the strength critical areas are dovetailed and screwed/glued together and it's very strong. I've loaded literally..guessing here well over 100,000 rounds on this thing and it seems to be as strong as new. He's very reasoble on them. I can't remember exactly how much and with inflation these days, can't keep up but call it about $60 bucks. Can't beat that, IMO. I can get you in touch with him or let me know and I can probably get one for you if interested. I don't think you'll be disappointed in it. Forgot to mention, it puts everything at just the right height for me, on my work bench too. I'll try to add a couple of better pics in a minute so you can get a better look.
Love the little led lights inside of the press. I added the holes for the dies and love that too. Also added the holes for an ammo tray but I could definitely live with or without those. Kinda a pain getting primers of of them. I might open a few of them up big enough to hold shell holders.
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PhilC
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Same here, easy chair in the corner I relax in surrounded by my toys and components. I live my life cell phone free except when I want to use it. My yellow lab comes to visit and curls up in her floor bed while I read shooting forums on my laptop.
The beer and TV
The back door....when it bumps my ass on the way out to the range
searcher
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My favorite place in my loading room is in my boxes of load development targets for all the rifles and loads. If I get bored and don't feel up to reloading, I can pull out those targets and contemplate whether maybe I should have tested one other load "just a little more.." when I see those targets with barn-door groups, it makes me think of how easy it is for a lot of guys to settle on a load after only trying out a few powders - and what a big mistake that would have been for me in so many cases.
My closest range is 45 minutes. If I had one 4 miles away (even only 100 yards), wow- would that be nice for load development. You guys with the back yards to shoot long range make guys like me very envious, indeed! One of my buds an hour away can shoot coyotes up to 1,500 yards away off his front porch.It is hard for me to say. I started at age 14 in the same reloading room I am in today. It is close to what I always wanted.
It is 18x7 with 82 inch ceiling in the basement of my parents (now my) home. It was once a kitchen as the house was built. My dad turned the sinck into a bench (the sink is still in it, under there, somewhere). At the other end is a canning jar cabinet my dad made when I was about twelve. It has been repurposed to hold powder, prmers and loaded ammo. It is as wide and tall as the room.
When I was a kid it had an RCBS Jr press, scale and two open hanging cabinets that held a pound of 4198, a pound of 4350, 222 and 30-06 dies.
Now it has steel lined walls, tile floor, stereo sound on Bluetooth, multiple outlets, Lots of can lights and cabinets, dehumidifyer, T7, Lee Pro 1000, Dillon 550 and the little RCBS Jr. as well as scads of accessories. Gun racks line two walls. A safe door keeps it all securely "home".
The only bad thing is my range is 4 miles away and only 100 yards. Very little hunting.
I always pictured that room a little bigger, a little sooner and overlooking about 1000 acres of people free range!
My favorite place in my loading room is in my boxes of load development targets for all the rifles and loads. If I get bored and don't feel up to reloading, I can pull out those targets and contemplate whether maybe I should have tested one other load "just a little more.." when I see those targets with barn-door groups, it makes me think of how easy it is for a lot of guys to settle on a load after only trying out a few powders - and what a big mistake that would have been for me in so many cases.
Damn dude...lol.... You stopped playing a long time ago....
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46”. Wow
I guess I might be considered vertically challenged at 5’7” but my bench height is 37”
I do reload standing up though as I find it more comfortable.
17cal Fan
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I love looking at old targets. Gave up and took pictures of them to store on the computer and tossed a lot of the paper. I still keep a few of them. Have some that my Dad shot in the 90's. Brings back good memories. He has been gone over 20 years now.
When I started playing with the 17 Hornet I got down to pretty decent groups. Then read an article in 2013 that listed AA1680. It was there in the books all along. Went and found a bottle of it and presto, game changer.
It means nice reloading room...
No problem....
My favorite reloading chore is buying range brass and sorting it while indulging in the amber fluid.
If it's nice out I sit at the picnic table, during bad weather I'll do it at the kitchen table.
I generally buy range brass by the five gallon buckets, sometimes three of four of them at a time.
I have a mini fridge in my reloading shed with six Corona Extras and thirty-six red cans of BUD for chores like this.
Depriming with the Frankford hand Deprimer is another thing I like to do.
When I actually get to real reloading stuff it gets my full attention.
I like to prep then load around five hundred cases at a time.
If it's nice out I sit at the picnic table, during bad weather I'll do it at the kitchen table.
I generally buy range brass by the five gallon buckets, sometimes three of four of them at a time.
I have a mini fridge in my reloading shed with six Corona Extras and thirty-six red cans of BUD for chores like this.
Depriming with the Frankford hand Deprimer is another thing I like to do.
When I actually get to real reloading stuff it gets my full attention.
I like to prep then load around five hundred cases at a time.
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