I feel your Pain. I live in an apartment, the place comes with a 30' x 20' storage room in the basement and I do have a work bench down there but, I need to use it for other stuff so don't have the luxury of a permanently mounted set up currently. I reload 45 Colt, so its a bit simpler and doesn't require the oomph for bottle neck cases.
I can reload two ways currently.
A Lee Loader
, I use an arbor press instead of a hammer or with a
Huntington HDS Compac Tool and a Lee 4 Die Set.
They and all the assorted accouterments like a Lee Hand Primer, dippers, funnel, loading blocks, scale, and etc all fit in an average size carry tool box. Well, except for the arbor press but, I figure an old bottle capping press would, just waiting to come across one at a garage or rummage sale one of these days to try that idea out.
Is fast as a progressive? No, but it's not awful either, thus far I've come to enjoy the process. Its like Zen meditation
, after a frantic work week its nice just to take time doing something that isn't complicated or rushed.
Either makes good ammo, it works for me, and being a new reloader its great to get up close and personal with the process, and it works for the space I've got currently.
Before you run out and spend the $130.00 on a Compac Tool keep an eye on the auction sites, you can pick them up for half that, I got mine on gun broker for $50.00 or you could get the Lee hand press also.