New reloaders- Start growing your tree...

[stilly]

So I was bored one day at work and I thought I would start entering in all of my reloading stuff that I had.

I wanted to see what I was more of, red or green or what. But then I wanted to see if I could connect what I had, and for the most part I could, but it aint a perfect connection.

So anyways, once you get into reloading you get you start getting all kinds of stuff. It would be nice to have an inventory of your tools and what not but there are ALWAYS things that get left out. So over a period of about 3 months, once or twice a week for about an hour I played on my laptop at work.

This is what I came up with, well, the core diagram was what I came up with and since I am practicing with infographics I thought that I would put together an infographic of my own...

I aint sure what all it shows, except the things that you can do and the configurations you can have, but it looks weird and I made it.

This is ONLY version 1.0 The next version will be started in Visio and exported to photoshop for coloring and a theme will be followed.

The original was huge, but this is about half the size. Click on it for the full pic.

I need to change the .223 X-die to a .308 X-die and add my PC setup including toaster oven and nonstick foil + hemostats... :\

This is phase 1.
Phase 2 will be a possible html page where this sits and then you can hover over things and get information, as well as click on certain links and get a total cost of what it cost me at the time as well as links to places that sell the stuff (and key word searches).
Phase 3 will be a fully contained and programmed APP that runs on a database or SQL that ANYONE can punch in their own items and choose the brands and it will generate a tree for them complete with all info that they put into it. This will be my first fully functional program and since it will be a relational database I will want to make it usable for different purposes like record keeping, insurance reporting/claims, and just basic inventory tracking kinda like Quick load or Gun Collector, but with a generatable tree. (So do not expect it to pop up in 3 months). In all honesty I do not know if it will ever make it to phase three. This is only a brain fart or one of those fluttering ideas that fly in and out of my head and last for a few seconds (like the time I was going to slide down the roof of my parents' house on an unfolded fridge box and then "flap" the sides like a bird and fly around once I got to the edge or the time that I was going to climb up into the trees and put in a system of zip lines so that I could throw my pellet gun across my back and zip around the front and back yards hunting pigeons like a boss...). Phase 2 will most likely happen once I find an easy way to make it happen or use Visio and see what it can do (or a better drawing program that can export) and phase three MIGHT happen if I get employed but if I get employed as an analyst or something computer related so that I am encouraged to bring my beefed up Dell to work and work on it some more. Then I can maybe see me going down the programmer/coder path with it... Or maybe these too are fleeting ideas...

[Bumslie]

First.

[Ferrum]

Interesting. Good graphic! My tree would be very green...

[nahpungnome]

The rcbs stuff is hard to read, great graph though. Visual data is more interesting than numbers.

[ivanimal]

I own a blue forest.

[SWalt]

Pretty damn cool.....all that in only 4 yrs??

[stilly]

Thank you for the feedback everyone.

This actually started in 12/2010 (was when I made my first purchase. And the ammo was pricey because I had just bought a Desert Eagle. So maybe closer to 3.5 years. Plus I was laid off in 2012 Q2 start so things kinda slowed down after that.

Heh. V2 will be more accurate and include all the little things and whether or not they were needed, wanted, or just because someone said to get them... (9mm brass trimmer...)

[JMP]

Thanks stilly, I was wondering where the bush/tree thread went. I am glad you didn't disappoint.

[Mot Mi]

Green and red forest here soon to be colored with blue. Seems like the trees are racist where is the black?

[Pablo5959]

Green and red forest here soon to be colored with blue. Seems like the trees are racist where is the black?

There's black in there.

So stilly,
Knowing what you do now, would you still buy all that swaging equipment?
It all seem very interesting and enticing but now that PC is so easy, are you still making .223 projectiles out of 22lr cases?

[stilly]

There's black in there.

So stilly,
Knowing what you do now, would you still buy all that swaging equipment?
It all seem very interesting and enticing but now that PC is so easy, are you still making .223 projectiles out of 22lr cases?

Yes because I am an accessory diva.

Whether or not I USE the options is irrelevant, I prefer to HAVE them and then choose to use them or not.

I have not yet picked up a swaging press though and the .224 swaging dies are, well, let's face it, they are prolly the SMALLEST swaging caliber you can do next to 17 HMR or whatever. But, since it is easy and fun to swage the .22lr shells into jackets, I find that I liked doing it just to do it, then if I have to make some .224 pills I can do it. And because I am who I am, All of my .224 pills will most likely have a BB ballistic tip under that hollow point...



BTW, I optimized the image for the web and made a refinish on it. If you click on it again you will get a much faster and nicer looking image.

[CSACANNONEER]

I have a Christmas tree with lights and ornaments of all sorts of colors, sizes and shapes.

[ElDub1950]

LOL my McAfee Site Advisor flags your site as Potentially Dangerous! Are you a dangerous person??

[stilly]

LOL my McAfee Site Advisor flags your site as Potentially Dangerous! Are you a dangerous person??

I am a mass murderer of little black piss-ants.
I started GLORVACHI.
I like to drip battery acid on crickets at night.
I prefer to shoot squirrels in the rear quarters so that I can shoot them several times before finishing them off in the trees...
I like to catch fish and then release them as high up into the air as possible in hopes of breaking their air bladders when they hit the water.
I like to catch mosquito larvae from water and put them on a microscope slide with a coverslip, and then slowly crank down the 1200x magnifier and watch their guts ooze out of their body... (but who doesn't?)
I support those people that pour molten aluminum down anthills and then dig it up and turn it upside down and call it ANTHILL ART...

But aside from that I am harmless.

LoL. As it was my webspace I was hit with an IE-Frame injection attack about 5 or so months ago but I fixed the issue and was clean. So **** them for saying that. They can eat a dick as far as I care.

[71MUSTY]

This makes way more sense than your last thread.