Kitchenette Reloading

[acloco]

Well...it IS winter in north eastern Montana. Decided to bring some equipment along to help bide my time.

A laminated plywood desktop provides the top, supported by two heavy duty kitchen table stands for legs. Screwed the top to the legs...and tada..... Kitchenette Reloading! LOL! (total cost of the reloading bench is... price of 8 1 5/8" sheetrock screws)

Brought 1000 308 cases that I purchased a few months ago as 1x fired. Seems to be rather good quality 2008 made LC brass. Brass weight varies from 178.3 to 175.6...so...should be good to go in the 110FP chambered in 308. Will be trying out the public range tomorrow to find out if I can still throw lead and be somewhat accurate.

Of course I brought a small supply of 223 AI loaded rounds as well. The Super Duece only has 100 brass fireformed and ready to go, of which 80 are loaded.

 

[Lindy]

Re: Kitchenette Reloading

When I lived in an apartment, I used a Black and Deck Workmate as a reloading table. It lived on the balcony when not in use. With 50 pounds of weight plates on it, it was nicely stable.

Improvise, adapt, overcome!

Nice job!

 

[Victor N TN]

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Looks like it should work fine for you.

The first few times I loaded after buying my first RockChucker kit (in 1972) my wife was gracious enough to let me cover part of her dining room table with a thin cloth and c-clamp the press to a corner just over a leg. I always checked and made sure I didn’t leave any marks. But if you watch the way you work the press handle you can make ammo on less than a 600 pound work bench bolted to the concrete floor.

 

[big_lu_lu]

Re: Kitchenette Reloading

there's a guy on benchrestcentral.com forum, in classified section...he sells a folding table thats a pretty slick set up.

seems like it would be easy enough to duplicate, may try it myself since i am between defined spaces to work

 

[acloco]

Re: Kitchenette Reloading

Found the public range here. At the kitchette (town), no wind to speak of. On the edge of the Yellowstone river bed meeting the the bluffs, well, that is a different story. Easy 15 mph NNW wind with gusts to 20. Should have worn my longjohns!

Trigger time was great. Has been close to two months since I have pulled the trigger on a rifle.

Worked up some loads with a Savage 10FP in 308 using Varget and H414. Also tried some MagTech primers.

Due to the wind, did not bother to set up the chrono, will do that another time.

As I pulled into the range, a herd close to 100 antelope were casually hanging out.

To show what the Sunday blizzard with gusts up to 50+ from the NNW provided....look in the opening at the center of the shooting line...you can just see the ears on my caldwell rest. Drifts were an easy three feet high.

 

[Victor N TN]

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We've had a few whitetail deer and a few turkeys on the ORSA range. But WOW...!!! That's a beautiful sight to behold.

 

[eleaf]

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We get a small group of whitetail deer on the rifle range at our gun club (The Bluegrass Sportsmens League) almost every evening about an hour before sun down. They like to come out at the 200 yard and 300 yard berms and hang behind target stands.

We have to go out there with a truck to shew them off.

I'll tell you, the last noise that a whitetail should be getting accustomed to is rifle fire! It's not a great evolutionary choice.

 

[5R Milspec]

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your setup will work just fine.had a very good friend that has passed away that used his dinner table for reloading.and the bad thing about it was that the table never got used for eating. every time I went to see him the table had nothing but reloading stuff on it.kept it that way till the day he died.

 

[big_lu_lu]

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I am getting ready to set up some sort of dedicated work area in my basement, hope to make it sitting height with shelving above. my kids have left all sorts of plastic bins, containers which are like drawers on wheels, etc during their moving in and out of college...hopefully will make use of all that stuff.

If it all works out will let all know and take pics...in the mean time, my wife has no objections over the kitchen table...sort of interesting eating dinner on one end with a rifle in the cleaning stand waiting to be cleaned or reloading press and gear at the other end. It all works, just a hassle to switch back and forth and move stuff around.