RELOADING BENCH PORN...LETS HAVE SOME PHOTOS

[reloaders4you]

Please post some pictures of your reloading/casting benches. Here's a few pictures of mine.

[Mike C (Perro)]

WOW!!

VERY impressive!!!!

im not nearly organized, and i have a ton of crap from different manufacturers.

i started out on a Lee anniversary kit with the O frame challenger press, and have reloaded many 10s of thousands of rounds on it (but not without my share of problems with it)

and shortly after that i bought the lee loadmaster for pistol ammo. ive been loading 9mm with it lately and im over 6k with it.


neither one of the presses are great, but they have loaded great ammo over the years.
ive broke a BUNCH of the little pot metal links that hold the handle on the challenger press, and i've hosed a bunch of the primer feed parts on the loadmaster. Lee knows me by name because of all the times i have sent crap back to them to use the warranty :lol:

Im VERY happy with there factory crimp dies, but every time im trying to resize 06 and a toggle link breaks, or every time the primer pusher gets munched on the loadmaster, and the thing ignites the entire tray of primers i feel like taking the things out and blowing them up with tannerite!!!



Ive wanted to upgrade to a Dillon 1050 for YEARS, but i keep punishing myself with the Lee stuff (im a procrastinator by nature i think, and im beginning to think i like pain!!)

Next time i get the stuff out to load up some ammo ill take pics!!

You DEFINATELY eclipse me in the reloading Dept :!: :!: :!: Your setup is beautiful and very well laid out

[reloaders4you]

Thanks Mike, what you see is about half of what use to be in the garage. I got rid of the 1050 when our first son was born. Being a father ment less time for shooting and reloading. I kept all my dies, 550 and single stage presses. At one point I was shooting so much, I bought a cement mixer to clean all the brass. I'm just bidding my time till my oldest son can start shooting with Dad. But he is growing up so fast that day is just around the corner :D

[reloaders4you]

WOW!!

Ive wanted to upgrade to a Dillon 1050 for YEARS, but i keep punishing myself with the Lee stuff (im a procrastinator by nature i think, and im beginning to think i like pain!!)



Once you start loading military brass on a 1050, you will never go back. I would prep(size, swage & trim) all my .223/.308/30-06 on my 1050, clean it, change toolheads and load away. The money you lay out for the tooling can be pricey, but the time and effort you save is WELL WORTH IT!!!!

[anm2_man]

Well I posted a reply here, but it vanished.

This is my reloading bench porn. One of my hobbies is doing wood working, and when I upgraded from the old 550, I needed a new bench. So this is what I built.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5805/reloadingbench3tc3.jpg

Instead of buying all of those expensive dillon tool holders, I came up with this.

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3876/reloadingbench6hc4.jpg

The bench has worked great, but I have outgrown the powder storage drawer (at the bottom). Unlimited room would be nice.

[reloaders4you]

Nice set-up!!!! Blue is such a nice color mounted on the bench :D

[kyle the cannoli]

Nice set up!

[EricCartmann]

Bench
http://images19.fotki.com/v286/photos/1/932051/7786873/ReloadBench-vi.jpg

Tumbling Area
http://images41.fotki.com/v195/photos/1/932051/7786873/tumbling-vi.jpg

Now for some 5.56 NATO Reloading Porn


Giraud trimmer/chamfering tool. One of the best investment I have ever made. Trimming and chamfering is the absolutely the worst part about reloading. But the Giraud makes it easy and actually kind of fun. I can trim and chamfer/debur 500 rounds an hour with this thing going at a nice and easy pace.
http://images49.fotki.com/v394/photos/1/932051/7786873/chamfering-vi.jpg


Once Fired Lake City Brass. Tumbled 2 times, once before re-size, and the 2nd time after with Nu-Finish to make it nice and shiny.
http://images51.fotki.com/v1548/photos/1/932051/7786873/brassprepped-vi.jpg


Powder-Cop die. If the white O-rings hit this exact level, then I know the round is properly charged with 24.5 grains of H335.
http://images50.fotki.com/v1558/photos/1/932051/7786873/powdercop-vi.jpg


I added the brass rod that I bought from Lowe's marked with Black Electical tape to let me know when I am out of primer.
http://images112.fotki.com/v1532/photos/1/932051/7786873/primerindicaterrod-vi.jpg


I found out the brass rod works even better than I thought it would. Even if I forget to check the marker on the rod, I always know when I am out of primers with this rod by the primer slider failing to return. What happens is the brass rod jams the primer hole to prevent the slide from moving ( I discovered this by accident, like the way Columbus discovered America):
http://images49.fotki.com/v394/photos/1/932051/7786873/outofprimers-vi.jpg


Primer and primer pickup tube. I use the box and the other side of the supplied primer holders to flip the primer to make sure they are right side up for pick up.
http://images49.fotki.com/v856/photos/1/932051/7786873/primerpickup-vi.jpg


The Hornandy LNL is a 6 station (5 Station if you do not count the priming station as a station), but here I am only using 4 of the stations because I already had the cases resized, trimmed, chamferred, swaged, and tumbled again (with NuFinish to make them nice and Shiny) before putting them on this press here.
http://images51.fotki.com/v1548/photos/1/932051/7786873/press223-vi.jpg


LC Brass and Winchester 55gr FMJ-BT (M193) bullets.
http://images50.fotki.com/v1557/photos/1/932051/7786873/brassbullets223-vi.jpg


Checking and Measuring. I only check once in the beginning and about every 200 rounds or so. I don't need to check that often because:
1) the cases are cannelured and I can see where the bullet seats based on the cannelure
2) The powder cop die lets me know if I have the correct amount of charge.
http://images51.fotki.com/v1545/photos/1/932051/7786873/measuringweighing-vi.jpg


Stripper Clips wastes more time but they do prevent the the bullets from being gouged by each other, and they also help neatly organizing the rounds in the ammo can.
http://images50.fotki.com/v1558/photos/1/932051/7786873/stripperclips-vi.jpg


800 rounds all ready to go.
http://images49.fotki.com/v1556/photos/1/932051/7786873/800roundsM193clones-vi.jpg


800 rounds inside a .50 cal ammo can. As you can see thanks to the stripper clips, I have plenty of room still. Can fit another 200 rounds easy to make an even 1000.
http://images49.fotki.com/v856/photos/1/932051/7786873/ammocan-vi.jpg