I live in an apartment, with a roommate. Space is at a premium. I'd love to start reloading, but I simply don't have anywhere to set up. What I do have, however, is a decent sized off-site storage unit which I rent and which has quite a bit of space currently empty.
How practical would it be to set up a bench and equipment in the storage unit, and just head over there for an occasional afternoon when the weather is favorable to crank out a few hundred rounds? The place is basically just a bunch of concrete garages next to the rail tracks, with a gate and individual locking doors.
I believe the storage unit has rules against storage of hazardous materials, so I probably wouldn't leave the powder there when I wasn't actively using it. Also it's probably not well temperature controlled, so that would be another argument against using it for storing powder or finished ammo. But to just spend a couple hours pulling a lever? Might work.
Part of me thinks it's probably not a great idea. The owners might freak out if they came around and saw an "ammunition factory" operating on their premises maybe? I'm not sure.
I have also wondered whether I might be able to actually rent space in a real "workshop" area for something like this, but at the point of renting space specifically for the task it would probably kill any savings I might make over just buying factory ammo.
Thoughts?
How practical would it be to set up a bench and equipment in the storage unit, and just head over there for an occasional afternoon when the weather is favorable to crank out a few hundred rounds? The place is basically just a bunch of concrete garages next to the rail tracks, with a gate and individual locking doors.
I believe the storage unit has rules against storage of hazardous materials, so I probably wouldn't leave the powder there when I wasn't actively using it. Also it's probably not well temperature controlled, so that would be another argument against using it for storing powder or finished ammo. But to just spend a couple hours pulling a lever? Might work.
Part of me thinks it's probably not a great idea. The owners might freak out if they came around and saw an "ammunition factory" operating on their premises maybe? I'm not sure.
I have also wondered whether I might be able to actually rent space in a real "workshop" area for something like this, but at the point of renting space specifically for the task it would probably kill any savings I might make over just buying factory ammo.
Thoughts?