What's your favorite thing on your reloading bench?

[44hunter45]

Good Idea. I have conductive paint leftover from my luthier days.

 

[JCW]

Good Idea. I have conductive paint leftover from my luthier days.

Have you tried wiping it down with a dryer sheet? Works for the plastic funnels we have.

 

[buffybr]

I've posted this picture before. This is my reloading bench where for the last 42 years I've loaded somewhere around 300,000 shotgun, rifle, and pistol shells. Everything on the bench has a specific purpose for something, and although I've used some things more than others (like I've reloaded far more 12 ga shotshells than .410 shells), I've used everything and I can't really say that anything on the bench would be my favorite.

 

[44hunter45]

I've posted this picture before. This is my reloading bench where for the last 42 years I've loaded somewhere around 300,000 shotgun, rifle, and pistol shells. Everything on the bench has a specific purpose for something, and although I've used some things more than others (like I've reloaded far more 12 ga shotshells than .410 shells), I've used everything and I can't really say that anything on the bench would be my favorite.

I wish I could be this organized. Given my tendency toward creating a mess, I've opted for a clean bench approach. only my three RBCS presses are permanently mounted. Everthing else is mounted to a plate which fastens to the bench while I need it, then goes back in storage.

 

[44hunter45]

I wish I could be this organized. Given my tendency toward creating a mess, I've opted for a clean bench approach. only my three RBCS presses are permanently mounted. Everthing else is mounted to a plate which fastens to the bench while I need it, then goes back in storage.

I see you are doing this with you Forster trimmer!

 

[AggieHunter]

The 50 rounds of .223 that took me 20 minutes to make, but only 20 seconds to shoot.

 

[buffybr]

My bench only looked that clean for that picture. As I mainly reload 12 ga shotshells, stuff seems to grow in front of my 20 and 28 ga reloaders. In that pic, there is a Forster trimmer attached to the bench with a C-clamp. I also have a Lyman trimmer and a Lyman 450 lube and size press on plates that I attach to the bench with C-clamps.

Actually stuff seems to grow everywhere on my bench.

 

[matt0550]

My favorite item that's not completely necessary is a sinclair concentricity gauge. I use it very frequently to tease out process induced reloading inaccuracies.

+1 here...I never knew how badly I was chasing problems by treating symptoms until I had one of these. I ended up buying the digital version because I got a screaming deal on it and gifted my dial gauge to a friend who needed it. I love being able to set zero and roll away. I'm not happy til I get zeros and .0005's, and I feel that it has cost me countless hours on die setup etc, but in the end that time has been anything but wasted.

 

[ImBillT]

BR-30 powder thrower for ball powders and short sticks. Digital scale for larger stick powders. Soooooo much better than the old beam scale.

 

[hogcarpy]

Right now....It would be 9mm 115 gr JHP, 45 cal 230 gr. RN, or 45 cal 200 gr JHP if I could find them.