I love the little lee on the stump. Great picture.
I devolved as well. Went from a 14x16 room with a 6x14 walk in closet to a 5x10 walk in closet and shelves in the basement for powder, bullets, and extra brass.No way. I’d have to clean up my bench before I take any pictures. I don’t think I evolved, more like devolved into a very small bench, but it’s got a large window! It does get the job done. Nice setups you have there!
I started loading shotgun using a Ponsness Warren 375 clamped to our kitchen counter. When I started loading centerfire rifle & handgun, I then added a RCBS Rock chucker in my bedroom clamped to an old school desk.
When I went to the Officers Basic Course at Ft. Sill I bought a Sears workbench and hid it in my closet. Once stationed in Germany I expanded it, by adding a longer top and another set of legs. I mounted my presses to plywood with the same hole pattern base on a PW 900 Elite (largest footprint) and mounted whatever I was loading at the time using bolts and wing nuts.
Once I was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS I built a "portable" 8' long table 36" deep, and maintained my old mounting system. I built it to disassemble into 4 pieces and would mount it to a wall for stability and would put bags of shot on the lower shelf. This setup lasted for 5 moves (Ft. Riley, Ft. Lewis, Vancouver, WA, and Ft. Leavenworth, to new house) each time we'd buy a house with an extra bedroom that would turn into the reloading/gun room. My old bench:
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Now it serves as a gun cleaning/project table.
2013 while I was in Afghanistan we broke ground on our new house, complete with a "safe room" (literally there's a safe in it) under our garage with vault door. A good friend of mine that is a cabinet maker would come over to reload and commented that I needed more room, so he built me a 21' reloading bench (I got to sand and do manual labor) that's built into the wall of the "safe room":
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That's how it sits now. Same mounting system in case I want to move a press. 4 presses remain mounted, the least used sits in the corner. I opted for open shelving so I could find stuff without opening cabinets. Most of my dies that aren't on tool heads & misc tools remain in a rolling tool box:
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Better Homes and Reloading Benches called. They want you for the June feature.I started loading shotgun using a Ponsness Warren 375 clamped to our kitchen counter. When I started loading centerfire rifle & handgun, I then added a RCBS Rock chucker in my bedroom clamped to an old school desk.
When I went to the Officers Basic Course at Ft. Sill I bought a Sears workbench and hid it in my closet. Once stationed in Germany I expanded it, by adding a longer top and another set of legs. I mounted my presses to plywood with the same hole pattern base on a PW 900 Elite (largest footprint) and mounted whatever I was loading at the time using bolts and wing nuts.
Once I was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS I built a "portable" 8' long table 36" deep, and maintained my old mounting system. I built it to disassemble into 4 pieces and would mount it to a wall for stability and would put bags of shot on the lower shelf. This setup lasted for 5 moves (Ft. Riley, Ft. Lewis, Vancouver, WA, and Ft. Leavenworth, to new house) each time we'd buy a house with an extra bedroom that would turn into the reloading/gun room. My old bench:
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Now it serves as a gun cleaning/project table.
2013 while I was in Afghanistan we broke ground on our new house, complete with a "safe room" (literally there's a safe in it) under our garage with vault door. A good friend of mine that is a cabinet maker would come over to reload and commented that I needed more room, so he built me a 21' reloading bench (I got to sand and do manual labor) that's built into the wall of the "safe room":
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That's how it sits now. Same mounting system in case I want to move a press. 4 presses remain mounted, the least used sits in the corner. I opted for open shelving so I could find stuff without opening cabinets. Most of my dies that aren't on tool heads & misc tools remain in a rolling tool box:
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I recently got a 12.5’x18.5’ reloading space. Fantastic!!!I started loading shotgun using a Ponsness Warren 375 clamped to our kitchen counter. When I started loading centerfire rifle & handgun, I then added a RCBS Rock chucker in my bedroom clamped to an old school desk.
When I went to the Officers Basic Course at Ft. Sill I bought a Sears workbench and hid it in my closet. Once stationed in Germany I expanded it, by adding a longer top and another set of legs. I mounted my presses to plywood with the same hole pattern base on a PW 900 Elite (largest footprint) and mounted whatever I was loading at the time using bolts and wing nuts.
Once I was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS I built a "portable" 8' long table 36" deep, and maintained my old mounting system. I built it to disassemble into 4 pieces and would mount it to a wall for stability and would put bags of shot on the lower shelf. This setup lasted for 5 moves (Ft. Riley, Ft. Lewis, Vancouver, WA, and Ft. Leavenworth, to new house) each time we'd buy a house with an extra bedroom that would turn into the reloading/gun room. My old bench:
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Now it serves as a gun cleaning/project table.
2013 while I was in Afghanistan we broke ground on our new house, complete with a "safe room" (literally there's a safe in it) under our garage with vault door. A good friend of mine that is a cabinet maker would come over to reload and commented that I needed more room, so he built me a 21' reloading bench (I got to sand and do manual labor) that's built into the wall of the "safe room":
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That's how it sits now. Same mounting system in case I want to move a press. 4 presses remain mounted, the least used sits in the corner. I opted for open shelving so I could find stuff without opening cabinets. Most of my dies that aren't on tool heads & misc tools remain in a rolling tool box:
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I love the little lee on the stump. Great picture.