Let's see your reloading bench!

[Greg Baehman]

Some have their reloading bench set up in their garage, some have a dedicated room for reloading, some reload in their basement, some in their living room, I've even heard of some that reload in their kitchen! My bench is set up in what we call our Basement Basement. Let's see your reloading bench!

I do my shotshell reloading on two Ponsness-Warren 375C Du-O-Matics. The press on the left is set up for 28 and .410, the other for 12 and 20.

[Ken Hill]

Greg,

Nice looking set-up. My wife allotted me the space underneath the stairs. I call it the troll hole, but she calls it the man cave!

Ken

[charlie cleveland]

my eloading is set up in my shop i use too reload at the kitchen table till i built the shop...my reloader are all mec 650 s a 410 a 20 a 12 a 10 and i reload the 8 ga with the help of a lee 10 ga hand set....use a roll crimp on the 8 ga useing a battery powered drill...wish my set up was as nice and clean as yours...looks like you like winchester shells....charlie

[Robert Rambler]

10,12,16 20 gauges. All MEC.

[Dennis E. Jones]

After a bad fire in 2015 I had a loft added to my garage that I use for reloading, light gunsmithing and clock repair. I haven't reloaded any shotshells since before the fire, haven't needed to as I have plenty on hand. My 4 PW shotshell reloading presses are stored but accessible. In addition to good lights I had two sky lights installed one in the loft the other over the stairs, during most days you don't need to turn on any lights. As usual it is a cluttered mess but I use the excuse that I'm busy working there.

[CraigThompson]

Nope can’t be a party to this ! Cuz mine is no where near as neat and orderly as any pictured ��

[Rich Anderson]

I have a dedicated gun room. I used a 12 foot counter top and three kitchen cabinets for the bench. All shotgun presses are Mec 9000's and there is a old Redding rifle press. My wife says it cluttered I say it's a working gun room:)

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Dont have any pictures, but I reload in the garage next to the 4 dog crates where my dogs sleep. they often put their paws up on the counter top and give me feedback on the quality of my crimps.

[Bill Murphy]

I never thought I was "different" in my reloading practices, but all my benches are tall and I have reloaded for sixty years, mostly on six Ponsness Warren presses, while standing up. There are no chairs or stools in my reloading room. My stuff has been in storage since my move in late 2017. The new loading building (my terminology, not The Lovely Linda's) will be started in the next month. Even though I dismantled the old loading room in July of 2017, I am not out of ammunition yet.

[Dave Noreen]

Mine is a piece of 3/4 inch plywood with three screw holes at one end and four at the other to bolt on my various MEC Jrs/VersaMEC loaders and three C-clamps to clamp it to the corner of a table. For about 35 years in apartments, government quarters, and my condo in Virginia, the table was a coffee table and I sat with my butt on the floor, and my back against the sofa and loaded while I watched television. Now the table is my parents dining room table that I have in the man cave. The TV is now a 55" LG, but that 82" Samsung is calling to me!!

[Craig Larter]

I have a room in the basement set up for reloading and photography. I do most of my reloading during the long winter months in western NY. I do very little metallic reloading as I do very little rifle or pistol shooting any more. I do load 10ga, 12ga, and 20ga. I do load all my non-tox waterfowl loads.

[Bill Murphy]

Dennis, sorry to hear about your fire, but, in retrospect, I need a fire in my loading room. I had more loading equipment and components than anyone who has posted here when I was twelve years old. I was forced into it by the powers that be at my gun club.

[Paul Harm]

My room is a mess. One bench has a 12ga Grabber for Federal paper shells and a 600 for 10ga on it. The other bench has a 9000H and a 600, both for the 12. Next to it is a table model drill press for roll crimping. I also do ceder arrow and long bow string making. Then there's my equipment for leather work. In the next room there's two 650s - one for 20 and one for 28. It's in my basement which makes it nice in the winter time.

[Rick McKenzie]

I have one side of the laundry room. It works good for me, but it's a bit of a mess right now, I use it for assembling things I make on the lathe (such as pens) as well. Left to right: Mec 600 for 12ga, Dillon RL550B for 45ACP, RCBS Partner press for 500 Nitro Express, and an old Lyman Spar-T turret press I do everything else on. I load for 17 different calibers.
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[Chuck Bishop]

Spolar hydraulic with 12/20/28 gauge die sets. Quite a learning curve when you've been using MEC's for a long time!

[John Dallas]

I load a lot of 12 Ga on my PW 800 Plus, but never had the courage to step up to a hydraulic.

Reminds me of a posting on a woodworking site I frequent. The question was asked "Most of us have hand tools and power tools which perform the same function. When do you use the power tool?" The best reply was "When I want to screw it up quickly, rather than slowly"

[Mills Morrison]

I have all of the equipment, I just need the skill. Really cool pictures, guys!

[Rich Anderson]

Chuck that is a high tech looking press. Can they be set up for 2 1/2 cases and how difficult is it to change dies from one gauge to another?

[Richard Flanders]

Ok, you guys are embarrassing me now! I love it when someone says, "my bench is a mess".... right. This is a "mess", but it works! There's at least 500# of shot under the table. The buckets at the corner are full of 12ga AA target loads; the yellow bucket 20ga AA target loads. The table is a drafting table I made for a project in 1990. I brought it home, cut it down to 6ft long and put big casters on it so I can move it around, not that that ever happens with all that shot under there.

[Daniel Carter]

Not a mess but orderly chaos. The difference is i bet you know where every thing is and can put your hand on it when you need it. I have been a 70 year practitioner of this art. Took 3 years off, the military did not under stand.

[Chuck Bishop]

Rich, I don't know if they make die sets for 2 1/2 inch shells. The shell holder dies and the top die would have to be modified. Best to call them and ask. As I get more used to changing gauges, it will take about 10 minutes. The nice thing is, the shells look just the same as when you took the dies off the last time, no adjustments needed.

[CraigThompson]

Rich, I don't know if they make die sets for 2 1/2 inch shells. The shell holder dies and the top die would have to be modified. Best to call them and ask. As I get more used to changing gauges, it will take about 10 minutes. The nice thing is, the shells look just the same as when you took the dies off the last time, no adjustments needed.

I’m not well acquainted with Spolars , I am however to a degree with PW’s . I might be wrong but they look very very similar . With that being said the people at PW told me they could make a PW LS-1000 10 gauge into 2 7/8” pretty easily . I believe if memory serves they also said the same about PW 800 Plus for the 12-16-20 . SO I would assume the Spolar may very well be as easily made for the shorter shells as well . Although this is just assumption on my part .