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    This is my setup. I went with the in-line fabrication mounts
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    Love the vault cabinets!
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    scattergun6

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    Nothing special about my setup. Small bench for a small space, made from a Gorilla rack workbench. Rock Chucker on the right, formerly had a Dillon 550B on the left. Bullets on the first shelf, brass on the bottom (disregard the bin of brass sitting out on the floor...my wife decided she needed to "borrow" one of my plastic bins...) Powder stored in the shelves and pullout bins on the left, dies and tools on the top shelf. The benchtop is a re-purposed kitchen countertop covered in indoor-outdoor carpeting. Why the carpeting on the benchtop? Well...I don't really know...seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess. Wouldn't do it again. Stool is highly adjustable for height, works great for those processes when I sit, and does double duty at the benchrest matches. Tumbler, sonic cleaner and all the associated messy stuff is out in the garage.
     

    Tex929rr

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    my bench. Excuse the mess. Not pictured is a tumbler and a couple stand alone powder measures on other shelves. For my actual work space, this little bench is just fine for the 7 or so calibers that I load.
    I have almost exactly the same setup - I added one of those side work tables from HF to have a little more surface room. Compared to my old setup that base for my press has a much larger footprint.

    To the OP: garagejournal.com has more workbench info than you can imagine. Here is one example:
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    I was shooting in competition, IHMSA, it was easy to collect brass and 7br you couldn't buy loaded rounds. Sold those guns and bought semi auto guns. Pain in the neck collecting brass and ammo wasn't so bad in price.

    Ooooo, I would have liked that except for the high cost of 100rds per round. (Did I get the round count correct?)

    My similar fun was that our club holds .22lr steel silhouette rifle matches all winter long...

    And winters are long here; and I no longer want so much to out in the cold shooting with finger gloves and in muckluck boots trudging 100yds thru the snow to reset targets. Must be nice to be warm(er). I don't envy your summers tho!!
     

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    covered in indoor-outdoor carpeting. Why the carpeting on the benchtop? Well...I don't really know...seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess. Wouldn't do it again

    I can imagine.

    Just had a thought (shocking, I know).... does static ever build up with the carpet?

    We're dry where I live, esp in the winter, and static can be a big problem with certain things.
     

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    Ooooo, I would have liked that except for the high cost of 100rds per round. (Did I get the round count correct?)
    A regular IHMSA course of fire is 40 rounds. However, most silhouetters tend to shoot multiple times using different guns in different classes. It's often a 200 round day, more than double that at a championship match.

    Yeah, it can get expensive.
     

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    Ooooo, I would have liked that except for the high cost of 100rds per round. (Did I get the round count correct?)

    My similar fun was that our club holds .22lr steel silhouette rifle matches all winter long...

    And winters are long here; and I no longer want so much to out in the cold shooting with finger gloves and in muckluck boots trudging 100yds thru the snow to reset targets. Must be nice to be warm(er). I don't envy your summers tho!!
    I shot silhouette's when I lived upstate NY, region 1. Shooting season was from April (weather permitting) to Sept maybe Oct. I shot every weekend, 3 matches and 4th weekend practice. I purchased bullets in bulk and powder in 10 lb lots. I shot 7br, 44 magnum revolver, 357 maximum in a Contender. 22 silhouette's too.
     

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    A regular IHMSA course of fire is 40 rounds. However, most silhouetters tend to shoot multiple times using different guns in different classes. It's often a 200 round day, more than double that at a championship match.

    Yeah, it can get expensive.
    Ben where did you shoot, Ft. Stockton? I went to Oak Ridge TN for an International shoot one time. Missed one out of 80 with Remington XP-100 and finished around 100th place. Tough competition.
     

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    Ben where did you shoot, Ft. Stockton?
    Uvalde, New Braunfels, PSC, Greenwood, Sour Lake, Victoria, and Midlothian are the places I can name offhand.
    Missed one out of 80 with Remington XP-100 and finished around 100th place. Tough competition.
    That's the problem with the design of the course of fire. It's way too easy for Unlimited shooting freestyle. It's discouragingly difficult for Standing Production.

    If the slate were swept clean, it would be possible to design a course that's easy enough to be encouraging and yet difficult enough to test the best shooters. Unfortunately, when the course of fire was finalized the attendees at that meeting chose to just ape the course of fire for rifles.

    The sport wouldn't be moribund if the founders had known just a little game theory. :(
     

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    I shot silhouette's when I lived upstate NY, region 1. Shooting season was from April (weather permitting) to Sept maybe Oct. I shot every weekend, 3 matches and 4th weekend practice. I purchased bullets in bulk and powder in 10 lb lots. I shot 7br, 44 magnum revolver, 357 maximum in a Contender. 22 silhouette's too.

    Ah, ok. I thought you were shooting long rifle.
     

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    I can imagine.

    Just had a thought (shocking, I know).... does static ever build up with the carpet?

    We're dry where I live, esp in the winter, and static can be a big problem with certain things.
    I've never noticed a problem with static building up on the carpeted surface. However, if you spill any amount of powder it has a tendency to stay in the carpet and needs to be vacuumed out. Static and dryness aren't a problem here in Texas and wasn't in Colorado or Virginia, either.
     

    lairdoglencairn

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    Nothing special about my setup. Small bench for a small space, made from a Gorilla rack workbench. Rock Chucker on the right, formerly had a Dillon 550B on the left. Bullets on the first shelf, brass on the bottom (disregard the bin of brass sitting out on the floor...my wife decided she needed to "borrow" one of my plastic bins...) Powder stored in the shelves and pullout bins on the left, dies and tools on the top shelf. The benchtop is a re-purposed kitchen countertop covered in indoor-outdoor carpeting. Why the carpeting on the benchtop? Well...I don't really know...seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess. Wouldn't do it again. Stool is highly adjustable for height, works great for those processes when I sit, and does double duty at the benchrest matches. Tumbler, sonic cleaner and all the associated messy stuff is out in the garage.

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