How Do You Keep Your Rifle Brass Organized?

[jbutts6785]

I use a mixture of ziploc bags, Folgers coffee cans, MTM boxes, and ammo cans up to a 20MM size. It all depends on what caliber it is and whether it is loaded, ready to load, or fired and waiting to be cleaned.

[Smoke4320]

50 cal ammo boxes and sportsmen's dry boxes

[mold maker]

Kids at the day care eat only snacks that come in useful containers. I don't care if they all go home with cheese ball stained clothes.
Doesn't everyone do it that way?

[FISH4BUGS]

I used to live in a 41 residential unit condo building. There was a trash room with recyclables separated out.I saved, for probably 2 years, all the plastic and metal coffee cans with lids that I could grab.
Man, what a collection! I have probably 100 of them in the barn just waiting to be used.
I know I will never use them all but hey.....just in case, right?

[Soundguy]

somewhat hard to find the metal coffee cans these days.. used to be all the 1qt cans were metal.

[Jack Stanley]

I use coffee cans or five gallon buckets and either label them or have a card on the top of the brass . Have another box that is labeled "anneal , trim , sort", those get just that then put into cans waiting to be loaded .

Generally , I load in large batches and it is easy to keep track .

Jack

[lightman]

somewhat hard to find the metal coffee cans these days.. used to be all the 1qt cans were metal.

Having used both, I actually prefer the plastic.

[MaryB]

Unprocessed is sorted by headstamp into these



Since I am only reloading for 223 right now i only have one set. Once I process it I move it to 1 gallon food saver bags and seal it with a label on it saying what headstamp. If it is my own second or third times used brass it goes in gallon ziplocks with a note card saying 2 times, 3 times etc. and gets laid on top of the unproccessed in the bins to keep track of how many times i have reloaded it.

[JBinMN]

somewhat hard to find the metal coffee cans these days.. used to be all the 1qt cans were metal.

Restaurants around here use the #10 cans a lot for their kitchen uses. I just picked up 4 of them yesterday from a small bar & grill just by asking. They do not have the plastic lids like you might get with the old coffee metal cans, but the lids should fit, I would think.

Maybe ask around at local restaurants/grills & see if they would save ya some if ya want them.

I use them for all sorts of things, so I like to keep about 8-10 empty ones around all the time.

G'luck!

[Boolit_Head]

I've been using Zip Locks and paint buckets for bullets and brass. Lately I am transitioning to some square containers I found at Target. They are the Sterlite latching storage boxes.

http://www.sterilite.com/ProductCate...y=17&section=1

Nice thing about them is they are uniform and stack-able. In each I place a index card denoting the current state of processing.

[HATCH]

It depends on what caliber it is and how many.
Example, I have over 20k pieces of processed ready to load 9mm.
I have them boxed up on the shelf in med size flat rate postal boxes.
It makes it easy if I have to ship them.
I have a lot of new starline brass. It's still in the original boxes.
I have a tub full (25k+) of 40 cal once fired police range brass that has to be sorted (some 9mm is in it) and then processed.
Then I have a tub of 45 acp (15k+) that has to be cleaned.

Basically my plan is to process the 40 (clean, then run thru case pro100) and store them in ready to ship med size postal boxes. Same with the 45.

I don't sell brass so don't ask. I store them ready to ship because I have a couple brothers out of town and some friends that might need brass so it's easier if it's all ready to ship.


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[mold maker]

The plastic gal containers that restaurants get mayonnaise and condiments in, also provide air tight storage. Many have screw on lids and are semi-transparentThe bakeries at Sams and such, have plastic pails w/lids from 1/2 to 5 gal that contained icing and dough. Usually, all you need do is ask.

[Soundguy]

The plastic gal containers that restaurants get mayonnaise and condiments in, also provide air tight storage. Many have screw on lids and are semi-transparentThe bakeries at Sams and such, have plastic pails w/lids from 1/2 to 5 gal that contained icing and dough. Usually, all you need do is ask.

if I could find some of those 2g mayo and condiment tubs, and those 10# coffee cans, I'd be set!

[goryshaw]

Depending on quantity for the caliber they go in a Walmart plastic shoebox, margarine container or ice cream container, most rifle cartridges are sorted by headstamp and labeled for how many times they've been fired. As they are loaded they go into another of the same type of container with load information and times fired on the label.

[GONRA]

GONRA uses large mouth plastic peanut butter jars for all sorts of "ammo / components storage stuff".
Be dam sure to label it all. Include the purchase date, loading date, etc.

Large cardboard oatmeal "cans" are great for range pickup brass storage.
(Keep pickin' up the 9mm brass, day will come when you will thank me.)

Have found it handy to store 100 round lots of primed ready-to-load brass in baggies,
with the MT 100 rd. primer box inside.

[Boolseye]

I just keep my brass in plastic bags in cardboard boxes.
I shoot so little compared to the amount of brass I have that much of it is in permanent storage. The stuff I use (i shoot a wide variety of calibers) gets sorted as it's shot, tumbled in small batches and rotated if necessary. I don't sort by headstamp.

[Taterhead]

Like a lot of others here, notes to indicate the various stages of prep for 223. I don't segregate by headstamp whatsoever.

For bolt rifle brass, I keep a groups of brass in MTM style ammo boxes. Those brass live together for their lives. Shoot one. Empty is returned to the box. When they are all spent, they are processed together in a batch and loaded again. The cycle repeats until time to send them to the recycling center in the sky.

[fredj338]

My brass is stored in plastic bags or plastic nut container (Costco). It's either unprocessed or processed for the 223. I mark all the cleaned, processed cases with a Sharpie on the case head & pick them up & sort them separate from once fired range pickups.
For other calibers they go in 60rd plastic boxes & I keep track of how many times fired.