New reloading room...

[canes7]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff207/hurricanes7/Reloading%20Room/IMG_0372.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff207/hurricanes7/Reloading%20Room/IMG_0371.jpg

I got tired of doing all my loading out in the garage. The 100 degree days during the summer and the 20 degree days during the winter really made getting any meaningful amount of ammo made a hassle. So I took the "catch-all" room and did some mods. The cabinets and countertop only took a couple hours. I have a Dillon XL650 that I'll be setting up and a RCBS Rockchucker press.

I'll post more pics when I get the press's and other stuff setup.

[canes7]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff207/hurricanes7/Reloading%20Room/IMG_0373.jpg

[BRUTUS]

VERY NICE!!!! I better not let my wife see your nice cabinets and countertop-put ideas in her head.......

[melloman]

Very Nice. Call me paranoid, but carpeting and a computer close to where you will be handling primers and gunpowder? I would be inclined to use an antistatic mat and move the computer farther away from the reloading setup. Nice Dillon press. Is that a Giraud trimmer on the bench?

[canes7]

Thanks.... Yes that is a Giraud trimmer. I couldn't live without it.

When we were in an apartment I had a reloading setup in the back room. It was fully carpeted and I had no problems. Is the concern static build-up? I'm a fairly smart guy about many things, but electricity is something I never had an aptitude for.

[Cal30M1]

Very Nice. Call me paranoid, but carpeting and a computer close to where you will be handling primers and gunpowder? I would be inclined to use an antistatic mat and move the computer farther away from the reloading setup. Nice Dillon press. Is that a Giraud trimmer on the bench?

I'm a static shock magnet! I arc on everything! I have a habit of bumping everything I touch with the heel of my hand before I touch it.

I can barely feel the discharge that way. If I forget I can get actual blue sparks from finger tip to object! Hurts like a "female dog" sometimes too.

Oh yeah. Mama is gonna want a new kitchen since you are now a qualified cabinet installer!

[sandsnow]

That's nice.

Reload and stream porn - I mean sports at the same time.

[Scabbie]

That looks great, but I would be concerned about the static electricty, does not take much for gunpowder.....

[melloman]

I have no personal experience (thankfully) but I have read that a static charge could produce a spark which could cause a KFB.

[canes7]

Additions:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff207/hurricanes7/Reloading%20Room/IMG_0433.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff207/hurricanes7/Reloading%20Room/IMG_0434.jpg

The racks.. not the rifles...

[Punch The Clown]

I wish I had my own room. I have to share.

[canes7]

I wish I had my own room. I have to share.

If you are sharing with some of Cal's friends form the boobie thread I'd ask why even bother with guns....

[toolman]

Very nice canes1. You keep all your rifles were everyone can see them. Me keeps everything hid!!! peace toolman

[redheep]

You could wear a grounded wrist strap while you were working, if you wanted to be safest.

We have anti-static mats and straps at work when we have ESD sensitive avionics on the bench.

http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Anti-Static-Wrist-Adjustable-Grounding/dp/B00004Z5D1

[cuppednlocked]

That carbine looks AWESOME!!! You must have an "in" somewhere at the CMP to get something that nice...

[canes7]

That carbine looks AWESOME!!! You must have an "in" somewhere at the CMP to get something that nice...

LOL Yeah.. that carbine is pristine! Almost like O crapped that thing out himself. He must have had extra fiber the morning that POS was sent to me.

[cuppednlocked]

If you name all your guns that one should be "rattle trap".

Dan bestowed upon me the gift of seeing and actually holding that carbine. Let me tell you that it has to be the biggest POS carbine the CMP shipped... and it was a replacement!

[melloman]

But they all rattle - what makes it such a POS?

[Cal30M1]

Don't be bad mouthing Carbines! I love the little fellers.

[cuppednlocked]

I'm not hating on the carbines. Mine is a non-rattle, tight shootin son-of-a-bitch.

It is a non-CMP purchase from the early 90's.

1,29 million Win receiver, had an Inland barrel with a big bulge. Bought a replacement off Ebay 3 years ago and now it's pretty damn accurate (for a carbine).

[canes7]

Short story is I bought one of theose $419 Inland rackers. The barrel was bent. Sent it back, waited a few weeks and nothing. Now I've always heard what AWESOME customer service the CMP has so I was beginning to wonder. So one day, about 5 weeks into it, "Dave" from the armory calls and says "I gots a reaalll nice rifflle fer ya". This dude had one of the thickest country accents I ever heard. Great! So I waited. Another week goes by and still nothing. So I call CMp cust service. Turns out they cant mail it to me because I've moved from the address they had on file. I supposedly had that straightened out when I bought the damn thing at the NS a couple months prior. Turns out the schmuck never changed my address. After that fiasco my carbine finally shows up, along with 2 other rifles I ordered.

I open the carbine box first. WTF!?!?!?! The stock looks like it was made of compressed toothpicks. The barrel has a MW of 3. My original one had a MW of 1. So I take it out to shoot it. It jams up like a motherfucker. Looks like the bolt has a sharp edge on the bottom that drags on the next cartridge in the magazine. So I put it in the rack and there it will sit.

And those 2 Garands that came at the same time as my carbine. Two of the biggest POS's that I have ever seen. One had a plugged barrel, the other looked like it was dunked in the park tank complete..wood and all. Both measured at the high end of the grade also.

After a delivery like that I felt as though O came down from his office, shit in three boxes and said "Send these to Dan".

Assholes.

I'll never mail order another rifle form them! Well maybe the IHC's.....

[Big Ben]

How dare you blasphamize the almighty O and his legion of deciples!!!

[melloman]

Did you try a different magazine in the carbine? The mag could be the problem.

[canes7]

Did you try a different magazine in the carbine? The mag could be the problem.

Mags worked fine in the first carbine. O crapped in the padded box and sent it to me. But for $419, what would one expect?

[melloman]

Try a new recoil spring and make sure that the spring guide is not bent. Got mine from Numrich.