there use to be a program on PBS called "square foot gardening" that showed how to get the most out of the least room....thanks to all the donations from this board, I'm kind of a "square foot reloader"

Got hard-headed and decided to only build/use items to make the bench from stuff tossed out on the many post hurricane trash piles (and I did ask first). From the folding table (given from a church..is one of theose heavy folders that seat 6 people....was rusty and nasty, but got disinfected and painted) it all sits on to the boards and bolts that every thing bolts on with. Only thing bought were the nuts/bolts and two C-clamps.

A double thickness of 3/4" board (looks to be part of an oak table top...old, hard as a rock). Mounted is a doatnated Redding powder measure, Lee press, and Lyman 45 luber/sizer. Room for a powder scale and loading blocks in the center of the mounting board. A Lee Auto disk got converted to manual operation and a little stand made from scrap lumber...adding a short operating handle really helps one of these work well.

All the loading gear, powder, mounting board, bullets, etc...everything...will fit inside a plastic tool box made to fit across a sub-compact pick-up truck bed...it's about the size of a foot locker. Can run a bead of silicon around the lid and it's water proof for the next hurricane. Bought a second one, and if i take off the stocks of the long guns, all the weapons salvaged will fit in along with the loading gear and bullet casting equipment.

Good molds and a pot were aslo donated...they take up a good amount of room and are a bit heavy, but are much appreciated as making your own is both good therapy and good for the bank balance.

So...am mobile...am water sealed if need by...and there really isn't anything I can't do.

With the following calibers to be loadd, mostly with cast bullets, looked to simplfy my powder choices.
32SWL
9mm
38spec.
38SW
45acp
41mag.
7.62X39
.308
.22K-Hornet

Not lookign fro max. velocity in any one, and wanted to limited the powders kept on hand (for space reasons). Herco, H-4227, and H-4895 are all that I have on hand currently, but don't really see a problem at all.

So just to update: thank all of you who contributed to this, it is appreciated.

Am activly seeking out other flooded out X-reloaders to find homes for some of the "extras" folks sent. heading out to a local range I haven't yet visited....will get to shoot some of my own cast bullets and reloaded rounds at last.

I am pleased that you are pleased Ribbonstone. I follow your posts often. I am very pleased that you are getting back on top of this personal disaster. You are a very brave and resourceful person. I stand here abit amazed that you could go through what you did and still be so active as a moderator on this forum.
Range report fom you would entertain all.
Cheezywan

It's not all that bad...kind of like starting over...a life-Mulligan...this time won't be making nearly so many mistakes as I did the first time.

As for the forum...unemplyment does free up amazing chunks of time.

Sounds like your in the shooting/reloading business again. I sure feel for all the folks like you left without homes after that storm rolled thru.

I hope you get to do some hunting this winter and fall. I don't know if you got coyotes out there, but calling them is fun and even popping them with the 41 at close ranges can be a kick.

Did in a couple of squirrels last weekend (.22WRF from a .22WMR rifle) and borrowed a 12ga. to dump a rabbit out of self defence...no other hunting planned, but have made a promise to do in a few more squirrels in with a cast bullet .22K-Hornet load.

Really don't have the urge to deer hunt...havn't done the leg work needed to be confident (usually do lots of scouting and such before any hunt) and the local population took a hard hit from the storms.

Ribbonstone, lucky here, just wonderin', what range are you a member of ? I belong to the St. Bernard Rifle and Pistol Range, and also Stennis Space Center. I guess that the range in St. Bernard is out of commission due to storm surge, if anyone knows the scoop on this please let me know. Anyway, hope you get to do some shootin' soon and I can tell you that it sure felt good to get back into the woods again, **** good therapy..........

Ribbonstone, lucky here, just wonderin', what range are you a member of ? I belong to the St. Bernard Rifle and Pistol Range, and also Stennis Space Center. I guess that the range in St. Bernard is out of commission due to storm surge, if anyone knows the scoop on this please let me know. Anyway, hope you get to do some shootin' soon and I can tell you that it sure felt good to get back into the woods again, **** good therapy..........

Have shot the Stennis range and the St. Bernard...years ago shot the old St. Bernard range before they moved it farther back. Would shoot a lot on private land north of the lake and some land in Edgard. Recently, been without a real shooting spot...both the owners of the private land are out of the country, one may not come back and the other planns on selling.

Do get a little practice at my buddy's place across the lake, but civilization has cought up with him and we tend to keep it quieter than we use to.