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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: JDHasty on March 02, 2016, 08:31:20 PM

Title: Post your loading bench - response
Post by: JDHasty on March 02, 2016, 08:31:20 PM: I finally took a few pictures, but now cannot find the original post. Here is the biggest part of it anyway.
Title: Re: Post your loading bench - response
Post by: wadu1 on March 02, 2016, 08:43:38 PM: I like to see the Hornady 366's looks like 12 & 20, sold my Pacific 366 to get a P&W 850. That was a mistake on my part. I still use P&W 375's for 12 & 10 and MEC's for 20, 28 and .410. I'll try and get some photo's on Thursday of my set up.
Title: Re: Post your loading bench - response
Post by: JDHasty on March 03, 2016, 05:31:00 AM: The 366 is a great machine. Indeed to do some cleanup again. It is getting pretty cluttered.
Title: Re: Post your loading bench - response
Post by: HighlandLofts on March 03, 2016, 08:02:16 AM: JD
don't them plastic PVC pipe legs on your loading table extention flex a little when using the press?
Title: Re: Post your loading bench - response
Post by: JDHasty on March 03, 2016, 08:28:38 AM: Quote from: HighlandLofts on March 03, 2016, 08:02:16 AM
JD
don't them plastic PVC pipe legs on your loading table extention flex a little when using the press?

Not at all. I had this bench in Lakewood, before I moved to Tacoma in 1992, and had a Rock Chucker and a Big Max on it and it was solid. We swagged lotsa' 22 bullets with the Big Max. The bench w/the two 366's was where I had all the presses mounted for a while and was using this old bench for lubing bullets, weighing powder and charging cases and then I wanted a Bonanza Co Ax right handy, so I put one back on in about 1995 and have never looked back. I have a Big Max and an A2 that I am not using right now and have another Co Ax and a couple Rock Chuckers and a Chargemaster at another location, my wife refers to that as my "branch office."

The only time this old bench is very shakey is when I am trimming brass on the Forsters or LE Wilson trimmer, other than that it may look pretty lame, but it really serves it's purpose well. The top drawer is full of bullets, I glued the drawer together and it has held up really well and has a LOT of bullets in it. The mid and bottom drawers are full of primers. The bullets sitting on top of the bench are all varmint bullets in 17, 20, 22 & 24 caliber. I will load them up and shoot them this year. I'm done w/hornet, but that is about all for this years chuck and prairie dog shootin'. I don't like to load once I am shooting every weekend, I like to come home after work and sleep so I am GTG for the weekends.

It is a pit right now and needs to be cleaned up, but all the tooling is right where it goes, it is all the ancillary BS that gets set somewhere for a while and then lives there for a month or two that makes it such a mess. I am so comfortable in there that I don't even notice it until I stand there and look at it and that is when I say: You need to clean this damnable mess up!