gsbuickman
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Hiya Guy's 
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Me and my Girlfriend got busy & tore the computer room / man cave apart, did some early spring cleaning and a lot of rearranging to make room to get my new to me reloading bench setup and situated that I just picked up over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend for $250 . We moved the gun cabinet angled in the corner by the window away from the direct sunlight on the same wall that my Craftsman tool chest is on. She got a little carried away and went over the gun cabinet inside and out with a lot of orange pledge and a little Windex on the glass and it actually turned out pretty damn nice when she was done .
I pulled the halogen torch lamp out of the corner on the opposite side of the window from the gun cabinet, then I moved my computer desk over into the corner and got the reloading bench setup next to it and I put the torch lamp right in between the two for some extra light. I forgot that I hadn't pulled the twisty fluorescent light bulbs out of the computer room yet to replacorderedwith LED bulbs, so I decided to get that squared away right quick while I was thinking about it and that made a big difference as well.
The reloading bench is 20" deep x 48" long and it's built like a tank so it will definitely take some abuse. Now that I've had time to unload all the boxes, go through everything and get it all situated there's quite a bit of stuff here to say the least. Here's a quick rundown of most of the stuff that came with this setup :
Uniflow powder thrower
Lyman 450 Luber sizer
Pacific press
Forster products shell trimmer
A hammer for pulling bullets.
And a Frankford Arsenal quick-n-ez shell tumbler
It came with reloading dies for 7.65 Mauser, 6.5 jap & 41 magnum. It looks like there are several other sets of reloading dies here that aren't marked that I'm going to have to figure out what they are. There is also a crucible pan for smelting the lead with a Dipper , skimmer & about 300 lb of lead ingots and sheet lead w/ 7 or 8 bullet molds.
The reloading components it came with look a little something like this :
500 Rimrock 38/357 158 grn swc bullets
500 .45 acp swc bullets
Speer & Sierra .277, .284, 30 cal .308 & .311 bullets
500 or so .311 cast round nose lead bullets
Muzzleloading balls in .440 & .50 cal.
20 some boxes of primers both big and small
Ten 1lb. Full and partial cans of powder in various flavors
Full and partially loaded boxes of shells in :
25 acp
32 Long Colt
32 S&W
380 acp
9mm luger
30-30
303 British
30-06'
7mm
8mm
257 Roberts
Norma 6.5 Jap
7.62x39
It also came with a den full of miscellaneous loaded and unloaded brass and everything from 22-250 to 444 Marlin from the looks of it, and I found 4 as of yet unknown rifle magazines and two 10/22 magazines which is a nice little bonus for my 10/22.
All in all I'd say I got a pretty good deal for $250 . I already got online and ordered a 6" digital micrometer, a digital powder scale, a Lee balance beam style powder scale and a hornady powder trickler to round things out. I just have a couple more T's to cross, I's to dot & I'll be about ready to get things started
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BTW, I found these 5 reloading books from a guy here on Craigslist for $10 apiece so I scooped all of them up before someone else got their mitts on them.
Pacific rifle pistol cartridge reloading manual. 5th printing revised Edition 1971
Ideal handbook reloading ammunition #38 published by Lyman 1951
Speer reloading manual #11 1987
Hornady Handbook of cartridge reloading 3rd printing 1980
Lyman reloading handbook for rifle pistol and muzzle loading 45th Edition 1970
,Me and my Girlfriend got busy & tore the computer room / man cave apart, did some early spring cleaning and a lot of rearranging to make room to get my new to me reloading bench setup and situated that I just picked up over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend for $250
. We moved the gun cabinet angled in the corner by the window away from the direct sunlight on the same wall that my Craftsman tool chest is on. She got a little carried away and went over the gun cabinet inside and out with a lot of orange pledge and a little Windex on the glass and it actually turned out pretty damn nice when she was done .I pulled the halogen torch lamp out of the corner on the opposite side of the window from the gun cabinet, then I moved my computer desk over into the corner and got the reloading bench setup next to it and I put the torch lamp right in between the two for some extra light. I forgot that I hadn't pulled the twisty fluorescent light bulbs out of the computer room yet to replacorderedwith LED bulbs, so I decided to get that squared away right quick while I was thinking about it and that made a big difference as well.
The reloading bench is 20" deep x 48" long and it's built like a tank so it will definitely take some abuse. Now that I've had time to unload all the boxes, go through everything and get it all situated there's quite a bit of stuff here to say the least. Here's a quick rundown of most of the stuff that came with this setup :
Uniflow powder thrower
Lyman 450 Luber sizer
Pacific press
Forster products shell trimmer
A hammer for pulling bullets.
And a Frankford Arsenal quick-n-ez shell tumbler
It came with reloading dies for 7.65 Mauser, 6.5 jap & 41 magnum. It looks like there are several other sets of reloading dies here that aren't marked that I'm going to have to figure out what they are. There is also a crucible pan for smelting the lead with a Dipper , skimmer & about 300 lb of lead ingots and sheet lead w/ 7 or 8 bullet molds.
The reloading components it came with look a little something like this :
500 Rimrock 38/357 158 grn swc bullets
500 .45 acp swc bullets
Speer & Sierra .277, .284, 30 cal .308 & .311 bullets
500 or so .311 cast round nose lead bullets
Muzzleloading balls in .440 & .50 cal.
20 some boxes of primers both big and small
Ten 1lb. Full and partial cans of powder in various flavors
Full and partially loaded boxes of shells in :
25 acp
32 Long Colt
32 S&W
380 acp
9mm luger
30-30
303 British
30-06'
7mm
8mm
257 Roberts
Norma 6.5 Jap
7.62x39
It also came with a den full of miscellaneous loaded and unloaded brass and everything from 22-250 to 444 Marlin from the looks of it, and I found 4 as of yet unknown rifle magazines and two 10/22 magazines which is a nice little bonus for my 10/22.
All in all I'd say I got a pretty good deal for $250
. I already got online and ordered a 6" digital micrometer, a digital powder scale, a Lee balance beam style powder scale and a hornady powder trickler to round things out. I just have a couple more T's to cross, I's to dot & I'll be about ready to get things started ..
BTW, I found these 5 reloading books from a guy here on Craigslist for $10 apiece so I scooped all of them up before someone else got their mitts on them.
Pacific rifle pistol cartridge reloading manual. 5th printing revised Edition 1971
Ideal handbook reloading ammunition #38 published by Lyman 1951
Speer reloading manual #11 1987
Hornady Handbook of cartridge reloading 3rd printing 1980
Lyman reloading handbook for rifle pistol and muzzle loading 45th Edition 1970
