How do you store boolits with soft lube?

[Outpost75]

I store sized and lubed bullets in plastic or foam ammunition box trays. This prevents the bases from getting damaged and the bullets don't bounce against each other so that soft lubes stay intact. I wrap the bullet trays in butcher paper to keep them from attracting dust, and stack them in metal ammo cans for storage. About 1000 .44 or .45 bullets fit into an M2A1 cal. .50 ammunition can and stored in this manner blackpowder lubes remain good for years and don't dry out.

[trixter]

I store all of my boolits in Costco nut jars, their label (nut jar label)comes off very nicely and then I can see what is inside. I also put a piece of paper with a description on it in each jar. I have way too many of them. lol

[poppy42]

Chinese plastic takeout food containers!

[Kraschenbirn]

For years, I used plastic bullet trays from factory loads scrounged from the trash bin at our club range. Now, I PC everything except my pan-lubed (with Emmert's) BPCRs but for those they still work just great....38/9mm trays for .32-20s and .38-55s, .45 ACPs for .40s and .45s.

Bill

[MT Gianni]

I try to minimize lubed bullet storage, but they do well in a basement that the temps vary from 60-75 F. I store them in ziplocks, and cardboard boxes by caliber. A paper goes stating date, hardness, and lube.

[Hick]

With a sticky lube like Ben's red-- go ahead and use the zip locks but put them in the freezer.

[Uncle Grinch]

I made small wooden trays about 6x9 with luan or Masonite bottoms. Then I stand up my lubed boolits in each one. They are stackable and are made from scrap lumber that I rip to the right size.

[44Blam]

I made small wooden trays about 6x9 with luan or Masonite bottoms. Then I stand up my lubed boolits in each one. They are stackable and are made from scrap lumber that I rip to the right size.

I like this. You can drill slightly bigger than diameter... I imagine 6x9 can be 100 boolits maybe more.

[rockshooter]

find a local electrician and get his discarded electrical tape plastic boxes. Also check thrift stores- all sorts of cheap craft storage boxes
Loren

[winelover]

discarded electrical tape plastic boxes.
Loren

The round ones are what I use. IIRC, seventy (9mm/38') will fit, standing up, in each container. They will hold about forty-five, larger calibers (44 and 45) bullets . Then I stack six of the containers in a one pound metal coffee can. I use a grease pencil to write all pertinent information on the lids of them all. I had the electricians, at work, save the containers for me.

Winelover

[Beagle333]

I cast em, lube em, and tumble them lightly in BLL to seal the lube. It doesn't remain sticky or dry out then.

[georgerkahn]

In terms of storage, I bought the blue plastic boxes from MidwayUSA which I believe were made for that purpose, as well as emptied commercial bullet boxes (e.g., from Sierra, Hornady, etc.) from my j-bullet loading. One "trick" I do is placing bullets into Cool Whip containers immediately upon sizing/lubing, and then placing the container in refrigerator's freezer compartment, usually overnight. To me, it is an amazing difference as to how clean your fingers stay, alone, when then transferring the now-cold bullets to storage boxes.
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