Shooting and Reloading

     I have enjoyed guns all my life.  I started hunting when I was 6 years old with my Dad and Brother. My Dad bought me a 410 Mossberg bolt action shotgun and it had two screw on chokes.  I still have the shotgun and both chokes. I killed my first pheasant with it, and my son killed his first pheasant with it. I have a great big gun safe in my basement (weights 900 lbs. empty) and it is full of rifles, shotguns and pistols.  I cannot hunt anymore due to neuropathy caused from diabetes.  I still enjoy shooting.

        I also enjoy reloading shells and can load any rifle cartridge from 17 cal. centerfire to 30 06. and any pistol cartridge from 25 cal. thru 45 cal. I also have three shotgun reloaders for 410 gauge, 20 gauge and 12 gauge.  I have three loaders so I don't have to change dies.  the pictures below show some of my reloading  equipment.

I have a 4 station Lyman Turret Press. You make a finished cartridge with every pull of the handle.

On the left side of the bench you see 3 shotgun presses and a Lyman single manual press for rifle and pistol. Shelf has die sets and cartridge boxes.

Here's some of my pistols a Ruger Redhawk 44 Magnum with 71/2" bbl. and Pacmyre grips. A Walther PPKS .380 ACP with ivory grips. A KelTEk 32 ACP Stainless with ivory grips.

The second picture shows a S&W 9mm Auto and the PPKS again.

 I have my gun safe full of rifles and pistols. It is bolted to the floor in my basement and my home is protected by Brinks Security.  I keep every gun in the safe, due to my grandchildren around a lot.

There is a lot of perifial equipment required for bullet reloading, i.e. bullet resizers, powder scales, bullet micrometers, powder measurers, bullet cleaners, charts and etc. and

This is a Browning 22-250 Caliber Abolt It has a 4-16 power scope on it

Here you get a better view of the shotgun presses and you can see a powder measurer in the corner.

On the left side of the picture you can see the three shotgun presses. One is setup for 410 guage, I have 4 410 shotguns, one for 20 guage, I have 4 20 guage shotguns and 12 gauge, I only have one 12 guage. It was my Dads.

3 pistols, 44 magnum Ruger Redhawk with Pachmyre Grips, Walther PPKS with ivory grips, and a KelTek 32 auto stainless with Ivory grips.

On the right side of the bench, you can see my 4 turret Lyman Rifle/Pistol press and in the opposite corner, right beside the orange powder measurer, you see a manual Lyman Rifle/Pistol Press. On the back right the blue shell tumbler (cleans the brass) On the shelf above Pistol/Rifle dies, bullets and Shell boxes.

2 pistols, Smith & Wesson 9 mm Auto and the PPKS again. I have a lot of other pistols as well as high power rifles (one is a Ruger 44 magnum carbine with Mannlicker wood, and a C3 Weaver Scope with tipoff mounts. I have 3 Ruger 10/22's, one Browning 22 Auto, A Browning Abolt 22-250, a Marlin 22 Magnum, with a scope on it. I have a Desert Fox 357 Magnum Pump with a 3- 9 power vairable scope on it. I have a Hawkins 50 Cal. Muzzel Loader with a 3-9 power vairable and numerous other pieces. I have a .17 cal. magnum with a 6 -24 power infra red scope on it. All my rifles have scopes on them.