When reloading turns bad

[Divernhunter]

I have enough presses. One 12ga shotgun and I have not used it since the 1970's. Two Rockchuckers and one is a spare. One RCBS JR for some pistol I do not use the Dillon for and all rifle bullet seating since I get more "feel". One Dillon 650 with brass feeder. One Hornady 50BMG press kit. Lots of extra accessories.
One bedroom is turned into a reloading room and part of another is supplies/ammo and 3 large safes. I do have some ammo in the house and the rest keep in the garage. Fully 1/3rd of my garage is reloading supplies on commercial shelving. The rest is mostly tools/welding stuff.

I am not buying anymore presses...............probably.

It is a hobby and hobbies grow.

[beetle]

when my uncle passed he had over 20 presses, there were at least 3-4 presses in each room of the house. the shotgun reloading room, the precision rifle room, and handgun room, etc. I got enough reloading stuff to pretty much last me a lifetime. He was the one to get me into reloading and now I think of him whenever i use his stuff

[Fastattack]

Besides all that has been mentioned, lets not forget the measurement equipment - scales, calipers, micrometers, headspace gages, case gages, go/no-go gages. I won't even mention all the primer prepping accessories.

[tonyjr]

I have 4 Lee's all different and sometimes all are in use
at once . But I have 6 nephews / 2 nieces that reload here.
We are all cheap / gun poor and buy another gun instead
of another press .
I told them if they come across a good deal - let me know ,
but I am set up with a load master , so will probably stick
with Lee [ 20 + tool heads right now ]
And like others , there is a drill press , 6" vise , pipe vise key
cutting machine , 10" saw , and the tumblers , sonics , vibrators , dehydrator - yea we move stuff around .

[TexasJackKin]

+1 My only weakness is being a little too obsessive about picking up brass at the range. Sometimes it gets in the way of shooting.

Yup, me too. I always figure, if my range bag weighs more going home, than it does going, I've had a good day at the range.

I've taught a bunch of people how to reload, and always stop them outside the door of my reloading room and say, "You don't need everything in this room to get started." I've only go 2 presses set up, plus 2 shotgun presses. My weakness is quality measuring equipment (I'm a retired Machinist/Tool & Die maker) and components. I buy any time I see what I think is a bargain.

[madjack956]

Dillon 550, Dillon Square Deal, RCBS Rock Chucker, MEC shotgun press and my first press, an old Lee Handloader in .357.
Along with my lathe , mill, honing machine, boring machines, grinding wheels, saw, drill press, hydraulic presses, sandblaster, air compressor, solvent tank, tumblers, mics, bore gauges etc, etc, etc. Im pretty well covered in the gun re-loading and fixing dept.

The downside is I have to move all this gear when I go to to AZ.

I can move the house in a U-HAUL, but the garage and contents of my sheds is gonna kill me.

[aspenvalley]

[Maht_g]

I don’t hoard presses, even though I frequently see them listed for sale at good prices... my dad and I share a Dillon 550, rcbs rockchucker and jr... We collect our own brass, and whoevers we shoot with if they don’t want it, but shoot on private property so don’t get range brass per se... my big problem is bullets, powder, and primers!! I have planned to have a decade worth of bullets in stock, but haven’t shot as much as I used to in the last year or so and still buy pretty much anything I can use that’s a good deal! I don’t buy for calibers I don’t use.

Between my factory Ammo and Reloading components, I bet I could shoot for the rest of my life without spending another dime, but that’ll never happen! I guess now I’m shopping for my kids lol

[rcslotcar]

Now you need to start your casting collection of molds and all the associated things.

[M1NM]

You need to add some RCBS green to that pile.

[Red9]

Now you need to start your casting collection of molds and all the associated things.

Probably have 700 pounds of assorted lead. Molds are starting to pile up lol. Lookong for buck and slug molds next.


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[Red9]

You need to add some RCBS green to that pile.

Yes I missed out a great deal. Guy was selling 3 rcbs couple of trimmers and a bunch of random stuff. I called too late [emoji22]

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[mike.h]

It's a disease and there is no antidote. Four presses, multiple priming devices, and the trimmers, don't get me started, too many dies to explain, and more measuring do-dads then I know what to do with.

Then I decided I needed to anneal, built the Skip's annealer from you tube, and then observed and used my friend's AMP annealer. Yep, you guessed it ...another thousand spent..

And let's not get started on 1911's

[mike.h]

I still have the one press.
Buy supplies & components when I can, but only for the calibers I shoot.
The only exception is brass that I have for firearms I don't have (.40sw & 30-06).
I enjoy reloading, but don't have the sickness.

Yet.

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Just wait until you retire

[Red9]

It's a disease and there is no antidote. Four presses, multiple priming devices, and the trimmers, don't get me started, too many dies to explain, and more measuring do-dads then I know what to do with.

Then I decided I needed to anneal, built the Skip's annealer from you tube, and then observed and used my friend's AMP annealer. Yep, you guessed it ...another thousand spent..

And let's not get started on 1911's

Thank God I won't be annealing. Or rather not yet. Only rifle I shoot is 223 amd 762x39. However that jacket press is pretty cool. The one that allows to make 223 jackets from 22 cases. Now that is something I'm saving for.
Yup it's the incurable disease. [emoji2]

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