How organized is your relaoding room

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I know,there is a mega thread with room pics but that's too much to wade through right now.

I'm curious to see what level of organization everyone uses in their reloading room? My reloading hobby has grown into two rooms. One is for pistol and is home to my Dillon, all pistol powders, dies, and ammo boxes.

The other room is for my precision rifles. I have rcbs rock chucker, two powder measures, digital powder trickler, rifle powders, dies, ammo boxes!

I'm glad the wife doesn't ask how much we save by reloading :).
 

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My reloading is done in an extra bedroom that is not used for any other purpose. I furnished it with the intention that everything would be neat, tidy, and clean. Now, understand I've never been neat, tidy, or particularly clean ... ever.

Let's say that I can get a lot done but the room's organization never looks quite like I'd planned.
 
I have a 54"X22" bench set up in a corner of my bedroom so it has to be somewhat organized. Two presses on the bench, a blue one(9mm and 45ac) which you can see and a Rockchucker(30-06) just out of the frame on the right. Bullets on the shelf below. My tumbler and separator live in a closet until used. Powder lives in a wooden chest on the other side of the room.
 

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It may be comically to some but others enjoy getting a view of yalls setup! I also seem to find great ideas when I see other pics. I usually ask weird questions like "what did you build out of that or what do you keep that in". I'm a little over the top. I use my label maker on everything. I have a spreadsheet I keep online in Dropbox so I can always check what I have on hand while out shopping for supplies. I built all my reloading benches and storage until this last one I found at SAMs
 
Mine is very organized! Also tidy and clean! That is only becauseI did a full clean/neat/tidy effort last week!

Give me a few days...it'll be back to normal. :uhoh:

Mark
 
Mine is totally very well organized.
Everything is under there somewhere!

Every Time I have cleaned and reorganized it?
It takes five years to find everything again.

And by then, I have given up and bought replacements.

Now I have Two of Everything!!! :D

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I really try to be organized. But then my ADD gets the best of me and I start 6 other projects and the bench gets covered. Then I get angry at the mess, clean it off, and start the cycle all over again.

I do keep my powder in an organized shelf on the safe and my bullets on the shelf I built under my bench. But the working area on the bench top gets messy in a hurry
 
Train wreck is good to describe mine. Reloading room is a mixture of gun room/reloading room/throw it in there to get it out of the way storage. Have a book shelf in there somewhere too. When I start losing clear paths to the reloading bench or the safe, I get aggravated and clean it.
 
Very organized. But I'm new to reloading. And my job spills over into hobbies because everything needs a proper place and properly labeled.
 
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Not to organized, might hafta do a little spring cleaning soon!

Best/picker
 
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I have been loading since 1975 and have always kept my loading area clean and organized. I put everything back in its proper place when I finish loading for the day. I just think its easier to find what I need this way plus helps prevent using the wrong componets when I go from one caliber to another.
 
RC said it best for me...

"Mine is totally very well organized.
Everything is under there somewhere!"

I know everything is on the table and I know which quadrant.
Move any one thing and I've found everything that's missing.
 
Two words. Freaking disaster. After a couple of job relocations and home moves everything got crammed into smaller or non ideal spaces. I think it is in the range of 75% in the basement and 25% in the garage. Maybe the next move will be to a spot where I can finally get organized again!
 
Mine is a horrible mess. I have a 15 foot long bench with 3 out or 4 Mec Grabbers mounted for shotshell, then a Dillon 550, a couple powder measures, and then a Lee Challenger O-frame. That whole bench is piled high. I clean around whatever press I am loading on and keep a sticky note on powder measures of what kind of powder. Opposite side I have an old Dillon 300, a RCBS Rockchucker and a spot for a cast bullet swager on a 5 foot bench. Above and below I have powders and bullets for about 30 different sets of dies on shelves. Probably got 50-60 pounds of various powders and 20-30 thousand assorted bullets. One end is nothing but shotshell hulls in plastic tubs underneath and bags of wads.

I would be totaly embarrased to take a picture of my reloading room. I'm working through my last 500 or so .38 specials of about 5000 before I switch to the 1500 or so .357mags. Then I plan on setting up for .44mag, got maybe 1000 of those to do and then back to .223, 5-6 thousand of those. If I can keep going I figure I'll get to most of this by mid summer. I load for 30-40 minutes at a time a couple days a week.
 
I'm pretty organized, but it's a clutter. I have boxes for tools, magazines & springs, barrels, and assorted other items, and that's where the trouble is. I know I have something but I don't always remember where it is.

Still, the brass, powder, primers, and dies are organized. It's tight quarters though. And BTW IMHO those shelving units that claim to hold 1,000 lbs per shelf. I doubt it. I have one shelf in my bullet shelving unit that is showing signs of stress. And I added extra plywood to them. The last photo shows the shelf that isn't gonna get any more weight on it.

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Just read all the posts.

I'm so glad most handloaders/reloaders are like me, rather than not like me..!!!
You figure it out..!!!

TxDoN

Ps...I'm actually reorganizing my shop RIGHT NOW as I'm typing..!!
Well...Actually right before and right after.:)
And cleaning, and sweeping and the list goes on...strange, I found a MAK-90 hiding in the corner????? :uhoh::eek::D
Did someone loose one?
 
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