Reloading Room Pics

GunDog · January 12, 2010, 10:04:04 PM

Here is a few pictures of our newest project coming together - the reloading room. It has been fun putting it together from the beginning. Although it isn't finished we've already started tinkering around with a few loads. I think this hobby is turning into something worse than the flu, grin.

This last picture is going to be my work bench when finished. It will be use mainly to clean guns, mount scopes, etc. Open to creative suggestions (or) criticism on the room ...

P.S. The Miller Lite buckets or for piling up the shot shells in. No one here drinks the stuff. I'm a die hard BL man myself ... but, not while in the loading room ...

Hawks Feather · January 12, 2010, 10:21:27 PM

That looks really nice and there is plenty of room for more dies etc.

Jerry

coyotehunter_1 · January 12, 2010, 10:27:34 PM

GunDog, your bench setup looks sharp.

One thing to keep in mind... if you use an electronic powder scale. Those florescent light tubes mounted under the cabinet may cause accuracy problems with some e/scales (if you get them to close).

Is that the brass for your new groundhog rifle (the empty one setting under the powder measure)?

slagmaker · January 12, 2010, 10:30:48 PM

Nice set up. looks solid.

What calibers do you have dies for?

JohnP · January 12, 2010, 11:07:03 PM

Nice set up, a lot better organized than mine.

GunDog · January 12, 2010, 11:16:52 PM

Thanks fellers! Slag the rifle dies I've brought so far are .204, .222, 22-250, .223, .243, .270, .270wsm, and .308. I will need some more to cover everything in the toy box but I'll add them at a later date. I took Frogman's advice and found a deal on the Dillon pistol press and it already had the 9mm, 38, 357, 40, 44 mag, and the 45acp conversion kits. That's about all I'll need for it for now.

I still have a few shelves to build and doors/locks to add to be finished with what we're doing. I have a magnifying glass/light combo on order that should be here in the next few days. The power is in for it to mount on the bench to help my tired eyes see better.

coyotehunter - I told my son just yesterday that those things are so sensitive that I thought my shadow was changing them? I will watch out for it and Thank You for the tip sir! That brass is for a squirrel gun that I'm working up a load for, grin.

Thanks Mr JohnP. I'm glad to see ya on here these days. We've been praying for ya!

HaMeR · January 13, 2010, 06:48:46 AM

Looks good. The bench looks solid. The only things I would change is I would round over the front edge of the bench & get an office chair that rocks & rolls. I can't begin to count the number of times I've reached for something in the top desk drawer her & smacked my knuckles on this damn sharp edge.

I see you have a mini fridge under the bench by your feet as well. Jim otta like that touch!!

vvarmitr · January 13, 2010, 09:01:01 AM

You guys & your rental beers.

Miller Lite, Busch Lite, Bud Lite, Coors Lite.

Is your Reloading Room in the house or attached to the garage?
Is it heated?
Just curious as to how envious I should be.

The only suggestion I'd make is get in there & enjoy.

Thanks for sharing your Reloading Room porn w/ us.

slagmaker · January 13, 2010, 09:35:10 AM

My little room feels so much smaller now.

pitw · January 13, 2010, 10:04:46 AM

Quote from: slagmaker on January 13, 2010, 09:35:10 AM
My little room feels so much smaller now.

I went down and slammed the door on mine

slagmaker · January 13, 2010, 10:47:05 AM

Quote from: pitw on January 13, 2010, 10:04:46 AM
Quote from: slagmaker on January 13, 2010, 09:35:10 AM
My little room feels so much smaller now.

I went down and slammed the door on mine

I would but I got someone asleep in mine

GunDog · January 13, 2010, 02:03:40 PM

vvarmitr - I fixed that room up in my little "DogHouse". I didn't really want it here in the house and space is limited. I have a little hunting cabin here on the farm - kinda stuck back under some trees in the edge of a pasture, really a holding lot I call it. It's about two acres there where it's at, and behind two locked gates when no ones home. The dogs patrol it as well as the rest of the farm. Yes sir it has running water, electric plus gas heat and a good A/C for when it's hot out. It's even got it's own stove and refridgerator. I have a few hunting and fishing buds that stay over there when they are here. I'll post a picture of the DogHouse for ya.

Thanks again for the comments fellers. If anyone has any "favorite" recipes to share of any the above mentioned calibers I'd be happy to look at them, grin.

HuntnCarve · January 13, 2010, 06:36:14 PM

Very well done GunDog! I'll have to post some photos of what a reloading bench "should not" look like. Mine looks like a train wreck! LOL! I've loaded the majority of those cartridges with the exception of .204, .270WSM, .308, .38/.357, and .40
Some others that I have are: .17 Rem, .22 Hornet, .19 Calhoon, .19-223 Calhoon, .220Swift, 7mm-08, .260 Rem, .300 Win Mag, 7mmUltra Mag, .30-06 So if you want to swap recipes? Between me and the other fellas, we should be able to come up with a few loads.

Have fun!

Dave

slagmaker · January 13, 2010, 07:43:19 PM

I have dies for
.223Rem
22-250Rem
35Rem
38Special/357Magnum

I need dies for
270Win
9mm
45ACP

Got to looking at your shelfs and if it were me I would add a couple extra brackets to help keep it from sagging. Theyll gather books and things and the weight, over time will sag almost anything.

msmith · January 13, 2010, 08:46:46 PM

Quote from: coyotehunter_1 on January 12, 2010, 10:27:34 PM
GunDog, your bench setup looks sharp.
One thing to keep in mind... if you use an electronic powder scale. Those florescent light tubes mounted under the cabinet may cause accuracy problems with some e/scales (if you get them to close).

Is that the brass for your new groundhog rifle (the empty one setting under the powder measure)?

Speaking from experience, the florescent lights will mess with magnetic dampened scales too. It drove me nuts for a few days trying to figure out why 2 different scales wouldn't weigh charges consistently. The way I caught this is, I have check weights and every so many rounds I double check the scales to make sure nothing got bumped or knocked out of whack. Every time I would check, the scales had changed so I would make adjustments and the next time they might have changed more or changed back. I would dump all of the cases and start over. This happened over and over one eve til I gave up. Started up again the next day with only window light and didn't have any problems, then it hit me, so I turned on the light and the problems came back verifying what I had discovered. Now if I need light, I only use incandescent.

GunDog, I love your set up!

slagmaker · January 13, 2010, 08:58:18 PM

Have ya got a chrony yet? looks like it is the only think your missing.

GunDog · January 13, 2010, 09:41:38 PM

Quote from: slagmaker on January 13, 2010, 08:58:18 PM
Have ya got a chrony yet? looks like it is the only think your missing.

Slag - two of my buddies have them sooo ...... I figured I'd hold out on buying one till I have to. Most of the time there are two or three of us shooting anyways. I'm missing lots more than just the chrony dude. You should see one of my buddies benches. He is eighty years young and still loads and shoots - shoots better than me I might ad, grin. He "used to" build alot of rifles also. I'll try and remember to take a camera over there one day ... talk about gun porn ...

FinsnFur · January 13, 2010, 11:14:10 PM

Quote from: pitw on January 13, 2010, 10:04:46 AM
Quote from: slagmaker on January 13, 2010, 09:35:10 AM
My little room feels so much smaller now.

I went down and slammed the door on mine

ROFLMAO!! :roflmao: :roflmao: I can just see that.

Yeah I DID like the lil mini fridge HaMeR

I was gonna say it looks like someone had a few buckets of longnecks

Nice little setup seriously GunDog

vvarmitr · January 14, 2010, 09:50:34 AM

Quote from: GunDog on January 13, 2010, 02:03:40 PM
vvarmitr - I fixed that room up in my little "DogHouse". I didn't really want it here in the house and space is limited. I have a little hunting cabin here on the farm - kinda stuck back under some trees in the edge of a pasture, really a holding lot I call it. It's about two acres there where it's at, and behind two locked gates when no ones home. The dogs patrol it as well as the rest of the farm. Yes sir it has running water, electric plus gas heat and a good A/C for when it's hot out. It's even got it's own stove and refridgerator. I have a few hunting and fishing buds that stay over there when they are here. I'll post a picture of the DogHouse for ya.

Next I suppose you're going to tell us you have a shooting bench in there were you shoot out a window down a rifle range.

Heck, if I had a place like that I'd have a hard time remembering where the house is.

CCP · January 16, 2010, 10:25:24 AM

Here is an older pic of my setup, I now live in a much smaller home so everything is more compacted but still intact. Will post a newer pic later but it is in one hell of a mess right now.

Main bench

Prep table

powder shelf