Let's see those reloading rooms

[pyplynr]

I'm going to be building my first house come the start of next year. I designed it myself and I am building a "reloading, gun tinkering/bow workshop" room. I would like to see what ideas I can get on the layout. Here is the room with the arrow pointing in it. The room is 30'x20'. On the left side is a 8' garage door for a Rhino or 4 wheeler so save some room for that.

Let me hear your ideas guys!!

 

[benjamin-benjamin]

you must have a really cool wife!!

 

[pyplynr]

Nope. I'm single. But if I ever get one then it's already in place.

 

[benjamin-benjamin]

ahhh that makes more sense

 

[redneck1861]

Thats gonna be a big reloading room. You will want a TV, a refridgerator/mini fridge. Other than that it all depends on what and how much reloading you want to do. You will definately want a safe in there that is bolted down.

 

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That's no where near big enough! However big you think you need, double it.
I think my next house will have a full basement that will be my "fun room".

 

[pyplynr]

good idea on the mini fridge. No safe. I'm building a safe room/fraidy hole with a vault door in the upper center part of the house.

 

[jtischauser]

Make room for a bench with 3-4 dillon 650's. You need a triple unsulated room with a sliding glass door and a wrestling matt floor to be able to shoot prone out of for load testing and close range scope scope zeroing. I'm planning to build my wife's dream home in the next year or two. I'm getting a safe room for guns this go round for sure. We will talkies about this Sunday night.

 

[pyplynr]

sliding glass door for load testing and close range scope scope zeroing.

That's a double duty for the garage door. ;D

Planning on work bench for reloaders and a bow press on the bottom and right walls

 

[Oldtimer]

How about a security monitor

 

[steak]

cool, but I would probably forgo a little piece of that room for a walk in pantry/store room for your kitchen.

 

[Spiff]

Dude, your reloading room is almost as big as my apartment.

 

[dennishoddy]

Well, I have a new reloading/work shop in progress. 30X40, 4" insulation, double pane windows, 200 amp 230 volt service, and a 12' insulated garage door.

Finished the building in Jan, and have been putting in lighting, compressed air ports, ceiling fans, and electrical outlets. Lots of outlets. Every 10' there is a quad-plex outlet with its own breaker. Everything wired and sized for 20 amp outlets.
Current project is building the reloading bench. We did a home remodel for the past year, and I have the old formica counter top that was replaced with Quartz, for the bench. Its 34" wide, and 10' long. That should be room for the RCBS Grand shotgun loader, Hornady L&L AP, and the
Rock Chucker, + all of the other stuff.
In the past, I had an 18X30 metal building, but it has filled up. I'm a collector of antique machine tools, and love to refurbish them, back to new condition, and put them back to work.

Nothing fancy, but here are the outside pics. I'll post more as it comes together on the inside. I'll be sealing the floor next week, and after that cures, its move in time

 

[jtischauser]

OK this has just become the hate Dennis thread! Nice shop. Is there a fridge in there?

 

[dennishoddy]

OK this has just become the hate Dennis thread! Nice shop. Is there a fridge in there?

There will be soon. Well stocked I might add
In the SE corner I'm putting in a fireplace/sitting area, with a throw rug, end tables, etc for swapping tales. Primary heat will be fan forced propane. I've wanted a real man cave all of my life, and by God, its going to happen now

 

[drmitchgibson]

I'm more jealous of the antique machine tools that the walls around them. Lucky bastard.

 

[redneck1861]

I have a reloading shed, problem is that I dont have any reloading equipment.

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm more jealous of the antique machine tools that the walls around them. Lucky bastard.

I just found a hand crank drill press with an automatic feed on it in an old barn. It has to be well over a hundred years old. Asked the landowner what he wanted for it, and he said to come get it....free.

Big, bonus, it still works
I'll go pick it up this weekend or the next.

this is a SouthBend lathe I've restored from junk. Its a 1946 model, sold to a guy in Austin Tx. (they keep all of these records, and I'm the current person on record.)

the clutter is from all the crap in the shop from a temp storage building that went away, while the new was being built.
the stock on the lathe is one I've refinished for a Mod 12 winchester shotgun, made in 1928.
Pics included for the shotty.

 

[Robusto]

Mine is an unfinished 12x12 room on the back of my garage. I insulated, put up 5/8" drywall, GFI wall outlets and installed a 220v baseboard heater. I have discovered there is an art to mudding, I seem to end up wearing more than I get on the walls but I am making progress.

 

[Jefpainthorse]

I just found a hand crank drill press with an automatic feed on it in an old barn. It has to be well over a hundred years old. Asked the landowner what he wanted for it, and he said to come get it....free.

Big, bonus, it still works
I'll go pick it up this weekend or the next.

this is a SouthBend lathe I've restored from junk. Its a 1946 model, sold to a guy in Austin Tx. (they keep all of these records, and I'm the current person on record.)

the clutter is from all the crap in the shop from a temp storage building that went away, while the new was being built.
the stock on the lathe is one I've refinished for a Mod 12 winchester shotgun, made in 1928.
Pics included for the shotty.

I learned how to operate a lathe on a South Bend machine very similar to that one. Ours had a geared head- but the table, ways, tool rests etc were all the same for years.

That lathe ... a J head Bridgeport Mill and a good geared head drill press could keep a guy "out of the house" for days at a time.