what type of container do you like to store your boolits in

[Cane_man]

now that i cast of my first batch of 100, not sure where to keep them for a while...

what type of storage container do you like to use, plastic bin, cardboard box? and where do you get them?

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[chsparkman]

Any container that you can live with on or below your bench is fine. Covered is best to keep the dust out until you load them.

[gwilliams2]

Plastic coffee cans work just fine for me...

[Beagle333]

I like to store em in Brass! One per case works just fine. :kidding:
(sorry, I couldn't resist)

Okay.... really... I store mine in ziplock sammich bags labeled with a magic marker and stacked/piled in shoeboxes. (I'm not too fancy);-)

I do really like those green boxes in the picture though.

[John Allen]

I use uline cardboard bins on a racking system.

[HangFireW8]

I use Dollar Tree Rubbermaid brand Made in USA food storage containers, they come 2 or 3 to the pack for a buck, depending on the size. As chsparkman said, it has to fit in your storage area, and it has to be covered in some way to keep the dust out- also helps keep the loob from drying out. Since they seal, once the vapor pressure of loob volatiles reaches a certain point it stays at equilibrium and the loob drying slows to a veritable standstill.

There is no one "right" answer to this question. There are some wrong answers. Corrogated brown cardboard is OK for very short term storage- just OK- I prefer to avoid it. It makes its own dust and it absorbs the volatiles from the loob. White, waxed flat white cardboard is much better, but it still doesn't seal.

HF

[LUCKYDAWG13]

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i use these

[detox]

Hefty quart size Slider bags. These have stronger seal than Ziplok bags. They also have a White background on bag to wright bullet info. I use a permanent Sharpie pen to write

These clear bags also work verygood for applying liquid Alox lube. Insted of tumbling you just roll inside bag. You can see if all are coated.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Baby formula cans.
They stack up fast. They're heavy duty, hold a good bunch of ammo or boolits and have a nice tight lid.

[Buck-N-Rut]

Tennis ball cans. I don't play tennis though. Too much running.

[Kull]

Large ice cream pails, tobacco cans, cigar boxes, etc.

[Iowa Fox]

Anything I find thrown away for free with a nice snap on lid. Keeps the bullets clean and the air away from the lube.

[runfiverun]

5 and 7 gallon buckets.
I also use 5x5x4 boxes, i went and bought 500 of them some time back.
I think I figured about right i'm almost halfway through them.
the problem isn't so much what to put them in, it's where to put them.

[David2011]

Mostly the 4x4x4 cardboard boxes like commercial casters use. Any bigger and they get heavy fast. Unless in a very humid area cardboard tolerates stacking for a pretty good while. The rest are stored in heavy poly bags with a locking seam. A product I receive in quantity at work comes with the manuals in these bags which have a tiny hole in both sides inthe middle of the bag so excess air leaks out. We don't want the end recipient to receive the factory manuals so they would otherwise be trash. I use them for boolits and loaded ammo and then put them in steel ammo boxes.

David

[mac60]

I like the plastic pencil boxes. You can get 'em for 97 cents at Wally world.

[725]

Tuna fish cans. Built a shelf / rack to fit the cans so they store easy and get to. Shelves are as deep and tall as the cans.

[dmclark523]

I use whatever I have laying around... old cool-whip bowls are the best. When i'm done lubing and sizing, i'll usually put them into baggies.

[btroj]

Whatever I can find.

[Any Cal.]

Small peanut butter jars. Screw top lid, stack well, hold 1-200 depending on boolit. Clear sides and you can write on the lid w/ a sharpie.

[nwellons]

I generally eat turkey or ham sandwiches for lunch and always buy the same brand. The containers are great for storage and if they get greasy or nasty, I just throw them away because I am constantly getting new (free) ones.

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[texassako]

I use those lunch meat containers as well, and for many other casting tasks like tumble lubing and mold storage.

[captaint]

I use the clear plastic tubs, the cheap ones in the grocery store for boolits cast. Once I size and
loob, they go in the "luckydog" won ton soup containers. I stack them. Most boolits/containers, I
can get about 300-350 in each one - and I can see what's in them on the shelf. Mike

[sparkz]

Plastic Jars like ones ya buy peanut butter in and onced lubed I like to work out of Pasta Cheese plastic jars ya pop open the pour side and sprinkle out a few to work with and then sprinkle a few more, super handy and keeps them clean so far


Patrick

[dudits]

rubber made containers.
for me it is worth the $$$

[theperfessor]

Plastic coffee cans. Free in a variety of sizes. And they seal well.

You don't have to fill them all the way up!

[Whiterabbit]

5 and 7 gallon buckets.
I also use 5x5x4 boxes, i went and bought 500 of them some time back.
I think I figured about right i'm almost halfway through them.
the problem isn't so much what to put them in, it's where to put them.

Good God, I like your style.

I store mine in 45acp bullet dividers or in bags/boxes because I store and load fifty bullets at a time.

5 gallons, sheesh.

[H.Callahan]

Peanut butter jars, plastic containers from take-out food and the lunch meat containers like in response #20.

[runfiverun]

Good God, I like your style.

I store mine in 45acp bullet dividers or in bags/boxes because I store and load fifty bullets at a time.

5 gallons, sheesh.

I tend to do things like that.
a can of chili noooo buy it by the case when it's on sale.[then get three]
same with lead why buy one box when the scrap yard has a barrel full.
pay car insurance for the year it's cheaper.

I hate running out of stuff and it takes some effort to get to the point where you can do that.

[John Boy]

Vita herring screw on lid plastic jars, Captain Black tobacco cans and Styrofoam trays

[Baja_Traveler]

All my harder bolt and levergun boolits go into those plastic containers that mixed nuts come in at Costco.

All my BPCR 30:1 boolits get special treatment and get put into 100 round 45 Colt divider boxes.

[**oneshot**]

coffee cans for bulk boolits, sterilite locking lid containers for sorted/lubed boolits. For shorter boolits I cut cardboard to fit container and get 2 levels per box.
I try to keep them all in some form of container with a lid.

[jdgabbard]

now that i cast of my first batch of 100, not sure where to keep them for a while...

what type of storage container do you like to use, plastic bin, cardboard box? and where do you get them?

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff244/akmbr/CIMG0044.jpg

http://www.mtmcase-gard.com/images/castbulletbox-400.jpg

Cane Man, I use those same 4x4x4 white cardboard boxes shown. I need to order some more. Anyone have a link?

[BubbaJon]

I use the clear plastic tubs, the cheap ones in the grocery store for boolits cast. Once I size and
loob, they go in the "luckydog" won ton soup containers. I stack them. Most boolits/containers, I
can get about 300-350 in each one - and I can see what's in them on the shelf. Mike
I like those "disposable" containers they came out with - heavy enough to do the job and dirt cheap at 4/$2 at Wally World. I write on the lid what's in 'em. I used to use the plastic containers from certain Chinese take out but they get kind of heavy. They *do* make a decent pan for pan lubing since they're flat on the bottom.

[HATCH]

I use plastic coffee cans. I don't drink coffee so I have to get them from my brother Ray and other local sources.
They can hold about 1200 or so 220 grain 41 mag boolits or over 2000 of the 125 38sp fprn.

When I am casting I cast enough to fill one of those up then I stop.
Same with sizing. I size enough until I get a full can then I stop.

[43PU]

I go to the dollar store and buy the 2 pack of sandwich tuperware the ones that have a sandwich side and then another smaller side. I put my unlubed(rifle) boolits in the big side and the gas checked and lubed in the other smaller side so I know exactly how many of each I have

[Artful]

I use to use cigar boxes but gave those up - then used coffee cans gave those up - then used candy boxes gave that up -
Still use jars from costco nuts and food container but I found if I want not to heavy but filled up get the small FREE boxes from
the Post Office.

[Spector]

Someone gave me a big cardboard box full of empty heavy duty black plastic cremains boxes to store boolits in...........Mike

[wlc]

I generally eat turkey or ham sandwiches for lunch and always buy the same brand. The containers are great for storage and if they get greasy or nasty, I just throw them away because I am constantly getting new (free) ones.

64711

Exactly what I use. There are two or three sizes depending on the lunch meat that comes in. They stack well and as you say they are cheap enough.

[warboar_21]

Sunflower cracker containers(filipino crackers). Nice large plastic container and they hold a bunch of bullets in them. The wife always buys the crackers for me and my son so I always try to keep the containers to store bullets or reloading stuff in them.

[292]

Small peanut butter jars. Screw top lid, stack well, hold 1-200 depending on boolit. Clear sides and you can write on the lid w/ a sharpie.

JIF jars, but I'm a peanut butter and jelly freak of nature.

[FLHTC]

I buy the blue plastic boxes from Midway that they sell their bullets in. They double as excellent mould boxes too

[Chilmonty]

Hard to beat the size and cost of my custom bullet containment devices! (also known as Folgers plastic coffee tubs)

I get the big ones at work for cases and the small ones for bullets. They work great.

[trixter]

I use Folgers coffee containers for some, and Costco nut jars for some and Large Cottage containers to tumble lube. This is sure a fun hobby.

[JeffinNZ]

.22WMR/.17HMR boxes hold 50 .30cal boolits perfectly.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Shooting%20stuff/IMG_0046.jpg

[Bo1]

Great idea Jeff...

[freebullet]

In brass is my preferred method. Ice cream buckets work great 4 free. Bags or anything else free would be my next choice.

[tom357mag]

I store mine in containers from Walmart that have latches on them and they stack very nice too

[PULSARNC]

My wife likes Bojangles and we eat from there 3 or 4 times a month .The side orders ,dirty rice ,etc comes in these small plastic containers with a snap on lid .Works great .one of them will hold about 50 unloaded 30-06 cases.Also like the plastic tubs that Gatorade powder mix comes in .in short anything that is cheap and stacks well.

[DeanWinchester]

I keep in lubed boolits in coffee cans. For storing lubed/sized/checked boolits,I use the foam trays factory pistol ammo comes in. They stack well in a .50 cal can.

[DLCTEX]

For large numbers of boolits I like the tins that the fruit cakes come in at Christmas or any of the variants that are usually available at garage sales for around 25 cents ea. I also like the Folgers cans. Lubed boolits go in Zip Lock bags, then in the tin. I recently found some plastic welding rod boxes (10 lb.) that hold lots of boolits in baggies and stack nicely. I can get at least 750 200 gr. SWC in one.

[W.R.Buchanan]

I use the Hillshire Farms plastic containers for lunch meats also. In fact, I suggested this on an earlier thread a year or so ago.

I use them thruout my shop for holding hardware of all types, tools etc. There are several different sizes depending on how much meat you buy.

For small qualtities or small things the current Kentucky Fried Chicken side order containers are very useful.

All of this stuff is free if you like the products that come in them. I do!

I also use these egg crates when I cast boolits. These are common in machine shops for carrying parts and keeping them separated. They keep the parts from getting banged up and it also makes it easier to count them as each tray holds 30 ea. They also stack neatly. They are available from most shipping materials suppliers for not much money. One stack will last you for a long time. Pretty much any machine shop that makes smaller parts will have them as well, just ask. Sometimes you can even buy eggs in them. :mrgreen:

Randy

[David2011]

Cane Man, I use those same 4x4x4 white cardboard boxes shown. I need to order some more. Anyone have a link?

http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-4040/Corrugated-Boxes-200-Test/4-x-4-x-4-Corrugated-Boxes

http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-4575/Corrugated-Boxes-200-Test/4-x-4-x-4-White-Corrugated-Boxes

David

[TheGrimReaper]

old coffee cans, dollar tree tupperware containers mostly.

[prs]

I tend to prefer the clear plastic containers that come filled with chocolate covered raisons or cashews from Sam's Club. I mostly enjoy the treats, but "gotta get some more containers" is a great justification.

prs

[Jal5]

I get enough items in the USPS small flat rate boxes that these make good storage for all my boolits whether lubed or unlubed. They stack nicely on the shelf too. Joe

[dragon813gt]

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They do get heavy quickly but I have a lot of them and they stack nicely.

[Walter Laich]

I tried plastic containers but they would get brittle and break.
Anyway wanted to see what I had in the boxes
Now use the cardboard boxes commerical ones come in. I know, I can't see through cardboard.
I cast for a buddy and we probably have used the same boxes 5-10 times--I give them to him full, and he returns it empty.
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in his defense he does the smelting of the raw lead into ingots, I do the bullet casting

[BubbaJon]

JIF jars, but I'm a peanut butter and jelly freak of nature.
Freak? You kiddin? A PB&J is a treat from the gods. I'm preferential to apple with some cinnamon.

[Love Life]

I put them in whatever does not currently have boolits in it.

[fecmech]

Whipped butter containers mostly.

[Steel185]

i usually go to "dollar Stores" you know where everything is a dollar, and get some type of "tupper ware" the size I'm looking for. I usually try to keep 500-1K at a time so they are fairly large.

[CATTLEMAN]

I use plastic peanut jars or Gatorade bottles. They are clear, durable, available at no additional cost and have a large mouth (easy in and out). Once I process rifle boolits and want to protect them to minimize their inaccuracy and conserve my labor (after the sort, gc and lube). I either load them right away or I keep them in the plastic ammo trays from factory pistol ammo.

[s1120]

Well im new to the game, but I got a whole bunch of casted up bullets from Dad after he pased. He had them in cigar boxes in 5 gal buckets. Well over time the boxes have been giving up, so I needed to rebox them all. Most of them are WC, and they are in a large skippy PB jars. the big 64oz'ers. they get a little heavy full... but nothing I cant deal with. I have some smaller PB jars holding some round nose bullets that I dont have as much of. For the small batches of oddballs I have these little screw top containers that I had got to put single size servings of fruit, or applesauce etc in my kids lunch. Depending on the bullet size, and shape they fit a nice easy 50-75 bullets. nice to hold the small batches of odd balls.

[Cane_man]

I use plastic peanut jars or Gatorade bottles. They are clear, durable, available at no additional cost and have a large mouth (easy in and out). Once I process rifle boolits and want to protect them to minimize their inaccuracy and conserve my labor (after the sort, gc and lube). I either load them right away or I keep them in the plastic ammo trays from factory pistol ammo.

+1000

plastic gatorade bottle, great idea, the 20oz bottles look perfect for 200-300 pistol boolits

[L Erie Caster]

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g327/Wynn3/030.jpg

In these, less than $1 each at Wal Mart

[groundsclown]

I started using these from home depot made by husky. It's the medium sized ones. They stack nicely with "feet" that slide out...use'm for my brass as well

http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l613/groundsclown/storage.jpg

[Cane_man]

^^^ now that is a pretty sight!

[10 ga]

what type of storage container do you like to use
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff244/akmbr/CIMG0044.jpg

http://www.mtmcase-gard.com/images/castbulletbox-400.jpg

I like to load them and put them in the firearm they are gonna be fired from.

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[bamacisa]

There are several good choices that are free. Empty coffee cans, empty plastic peanut butter jars, and empty plastic mayonaise jars.

[MT Gianni]

It doesn't matter to me as long as it can be sealed to be free of dust. I use plastic baggies in boxes labelled per caliber.

[JSAND]

Pretty much anything sturdy enough to hold them with a lid, I prefer to be able to see through it but not a requirement, have used the plastic coffee cans, peanut butter/jelly jars, the Walmart tupperware, ammo cans. I really like some of the ideas posted on here. Cheap is always good.

[justing]

i like to use the boxes left from before i cast as they were made to hold boolits and they are free.

[RBDAVE]

Currently only cast only 9 different sizes/calibers. I made 6x6x12 nice oak boxes that fit nicely on shelves on lower area (near the floor) of my misc shelf

[Freischütz]

I use the larger business card boxes and the plastic boxes that jacketed bullets come in.

I've also cut cardboard powder cans in half so I could use the half with the bottom. You get a lot of flat nosed bullets in half of a one pound can.

[zuke]

30/50 cal can's.

[Shuz]

I store my cast boolits in Costco see thru plastic mixed nut jars with the large mouth and screwable lid. These stack nicely and I can tell at a glance what is in each container. For general bin purposes on my loading bench I use Jimmy Dean or Aunt Jimima breakfast bowl containers that are made from a real hard black plastic. They nest very nicely when not in use.

[famdoc2892]

I store my cast boolits in Costco see thru plastic mixed nut jars with the large mouth and screwable lid. These stack nicely and I can tell at a glance what is in each container.

These, but I get them with peanuts in them at Wally's. I can't stand not to see what's in my containers, "out of sight, out of mind" my mama used to say!

[wmitty]

JIF peanut butter plastic jars - 'cause choosy mothers choose JIF!

[ku4hx]

JIF peanut butter plastic jars - 'cause choosy mothers choose JIF!

Me too ... 40 oz. size. Because man cannot live by bread alone; peanut butter is essential for happiness. Right after a good woman, cast boolits and strong hot coffee. Coffee Mate jugs work too.
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[Shiloh]

Coffee cans, Dollar Store plastic lunch containers, empty industrial cake soap plastic containers.
They all work.

Shiloh