Best Reloading bench on a budget?
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Mine is in the making. loading bench with locked cabinet with 2 heavy duty shelves. extra beams under the bottom shelf to support a few hundred pounds weight with no problems.
it's made out of one sheet of 4x8feet 1/2 inch plywood, and then just 2x4 completely sealed with polyurethane which will last long long time.
And I found the perfect way to use the 10K campro bullets. gluing the plywood together for door and table top without any clamp needed.
it's made out of one sheet of 4x8feet 1/2 inch plywood, and then just 2x4 completely sealed with polyurethane which will last long long time.
And I found the perfect way to use the 10K campro bullets. gluing the plywood together for door and table top without any clamp needed.
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My first press was mounted on a piece of plywood about 18" x 18". I would clamp that to tables, work benches, a dresser with the top drawer removed and as often as not just hold it on my knees. Later when I got fancier I made a table with a top about 18" x 3 feet and used that for a few years until I got situated permanently enough that portability wasn't the main criteria. I wore out my first press before I got a permanent bench. I wouldn't rule out a hand press either. A 40 dollar Lee hand press works surprisingly well, and when you move up little is lost. Nothing if you might want to do a little load development at the range or out in the country later. I dragged one all the way to Australia to load .458 ammo when I couldn't fly enough ammo. I could fly all the empty sized brass and component bullets I wanted though, and calculated that I was saving 900-1000 bucks an hour over buying premium factory loads at that end. That's good wages.
I left it with an Aussie friend along with a set of scoops, a RCBS 505 scale and the left over components. He contacted me laughing this spring saying that he tried it for fun and was shocked when he could make ammo just as good as his more elaborate set-up. He shoots F-Class, regularly places or wins in big-bore competition and won the national 3 gun this summer.
Long way of saying that the best bench for people short of space just might be no bench at all.
I left it with an Aussie friend along with a set of scoops, a RCBS 505 scale and the left over components. He contacted me laughing this spring saying that he tried it for fun and was shocked when he could make ammo just as good as his more elaborate set-up. He shoots F-Class, regularly places or wins in big-bore competition and won the national 3 gun this summer.Long way of saying that the best bench for people short of space just might be no bench at all.
