Anyone take reloading equipment to the range?
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verminaard
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- SW Bantario
Just don't be "that guy" that sets up an entire reloading production line which eats up 3/4 of the back bench. I have watched a couple of guys do that on a nice busy weekend and then get downright snarly when someone asks him to free up some room for others. The most exciting day was when two other guys said "ok, fine, be a ####" and then adjusted their brass deflectors and plunked down right beside him. 30 min of hot brass raining down on him and his assembly line led to a lot more choice words before he finally packed up.
- Location
- Iroquois Falls ON
It is a three hour round trip to the range where I shoot,,,,, so,,, one of this winters projects was to build a portable reloading kit. It will be another two weeks before we can drive into the range for it's first time out.
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You are assuming that is what I will do?? You do realize I said I would load from the truck. But the last 3 times I have been there, I was the only one there.
Polar Hunter, that's a nice set up.
Life is good out on the range ain't it...200 yards off the south deck, 400 off the north...Fifty paces to my 400 yard gongs down in the raven or ninety paces to my 830 yard pounding rock with an IPSC torso gong beside it on the other side of the raven...Loading up five rounds and touching them off minutes later is one of life's simple pleasures out on the range...
Got a 6x7 209" whitetail right in the horse coral a few years ago too...Never could bring myself to shoot one of those lonely spike moose that come round end of September to visit the mares.
Tried using a beam scale at the shooting line but even a slight breeze messes up a scale, digital or beam. My range has a clubhouse that I use so it's not a big deal for me, but without the clubhouse I wouldn't be able to weigh loads 9 days out of 10.
Your a better man than I , an unfortunate young moose started it trip to the deep freeze from 75 yds off my deck one year when my cow tag came through . In my defence I was hungry and it looked so tasty . Not much challenge or fun in the hunt though
Bird in the hand
Last fall I took pictures of a young bull standing under the yard light not more than 10 paces from a freezer kept in the garage...He hung around for a couple days till he realized the mares couldn't care less about his desires...Damn it's hard to resist when the loader tractor is right there too.
That 6x7 209" buck had broke off double drop tines that my wife said when she saw him at the gate earlier in August, almost hung as low as he was high and he has 13" g2 and 3 jabs.
I've bugled off the deck and got whistles back from the hills but have never coaxed one down into the range, I mean yard.......Yet.
That 6x7 209" buck had broke off double drop tines that my wife said when she saw him at the gate earlier in August, almost hung as low as he was high and he has 13" g2 and 3 jabs.
I've bugled off the deck and got whistles back from the hills but have never coaxed one down into the range, I mean yard.......Yet.
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Yes I agree about the wind, in my reloading room I can tell when the furnace kicks in. I will be inside my truck though, and thankfully my Dodge Ram dash will actually work with a chunk of 3/4" plywood. I tried using the console with the lid up, but its not easy to level there like I thought it wold be. ( the hard plastic is not very flat and hard to shim ) At least up on the dash its easy to read, and I won't need to bring the computer and web cam.
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Down in Georgia now so can't post pics till I'm home next week, but I made a tailgate box that is about 18in W x14 D &16 H out of 1" pine with 1/4" fiber board for front and back. The back 8" of it is solid with a 1 1/2 x 6" pine shelf that has powder measure & trickler
on the left side, a couple small parts drawers and set up for either a Rockchocker or my T-7 on the right. Below the beam scale is th trimmer on a slide so I can move it forward to trim & back out of the way to close the vertical clam doors that are about 4" deep with shelves. If there is a breeze I can close the 1 piano hinged door and still balance the scale and use the trickler. Pics when I'm home from Savannah.
on the left side, a couple small parts drawers and set up for either a Rockchocker or my T-7 on the right. Below the beam scale is th trimmer on a slide so I can move it forward to trim & back out of the way to close the vertical clam doors that are about 4" deep with shelves. If there is a breeze I can close the 1 piano hinged door and still balance the scale and use the trickler. Pics when I'm home from Savannah.
I've taken Lee Loaders and the Lee scoop set to the range. Works well and never fails to get lots of "what the hell are you doing?" questions. I'm doing it for fun, though, and not precise load testing. I don't think I'd try precise work in the field - would not want to spill powder in the truck or drop and damage the scale. Keep in mind, too, that your truck will be moving around with you in it, which might affect the scale. My RCBS reacts when the basement door upstairs is opened, so I would not try to use it in a vehicle.
All that said, I have seen guys bring presses to the range. Usually the cheap Lee C-frame thing on a piece of wood that they clamp down somewhere. Looks to me like the guys are using premeasured loads from vials.
Good luck with whatever you go with. Hope it works for you.
All that said, I have seen guys bring presses to the range. Usually the cheap Lee C-frame thing on a piece of wood that they clamp down somewhere. Looks to me like the guys are using premeasured loads from vials.
Good luck with whatever you go with. Hope it works for you.
That is pretty cool.
I assume that you take the beam off the scale for transport, correct? Do you have a storage space in the case for the beam?
This is my take it with you reloading setup. I was a little out on my recollection of OVL dimensions. It is 26W x 16D x 18H and as it sits in pics is 50lbs without the press as I carry it separate. 
And at home loading
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