I like to use Ben's Red, but it is hard to store those boolits. You cannot just put them in a ziplock.
How do you store them?
I like to use Ben's Red, but it is hard to store those boolits. You cannot just put them in a ziplock.
How do you store them?
I cast & store. Size & lube as I need them.
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I use cigar boxes for the ones i use a lot of like 9mm and 6.5mm and .357. Use card board to separate the layers.
I have smaller sandwich Tupperware boxes from the dollar store. For the lesser used calibers.
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Mostly as cast in coffee cans but I always keep 200-300 of each caliber lubed in check boxes. The box a bunch of check books come in from the bank.
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I do as poster #3 and what I don't store, I size, bag the resize and lube as I load.
I use plastic jars that peanut butter or peanuts came in. Brass I use larger nut containers. All have screw on lids. Cast is unlubed when put in the jars.
I haven't tried it myself but i have read somewhere here in this forum that a thin coat of tumble lube like 45-45-10 or BLL will form a hard shell and hold the soft lube in place.
The lube I make for myself stay on and I store in plastic containers that my brother get his sweetner in that have a flip open lid. I use them for all my boolits lube and size and unsize and lube.they stack up easy also.
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On my bench I have a little three drawer plastic bin. Each drawer is for a particular boolit (i.e. the bottom drawer is for 358311) and as I size/lube, I'll place them neatly in rows and use a cereal box cardboard cut out between layers. The drawers are deep enough for two layers and of a size that when full holds probably 450-500 (never counted).
Oh, this isn't an OCD thing but as I do use a soft lube (50/50), it keeps the noses relatively clean of lube so as they fall in the bin (Dillon SDB), the exposed lead isn't covered in smeared lube (which would get all over the other rounds in the bin) so I don't have to wipe down the loaded rounds.
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I use 50/50.
I store my sized/lubed boolits in smaller tins that candy/cookies come in.
I stand them on their bases, separating the layers with thin carboard.
I mark the tins on top with peel and stick labels.
I mark the mold#, alloy, weight and diameter....dale
I do a light coat of BLL over my Ben's Red. Works great.
Almost all all of my cast & lubed boolits are in cheap plastic food storage containers. Some round, some square, some screw on, some snap on. Bit of everything down there.
I have noticed that airtight containers do help prevent oxidation on unlubed cast.
Most of my casting these days gets a couple of light coats of BLL before storage.
I stack my sized and lubed bullets in cigar boxes with the layers separated by a piece of thin cardboard. I save the backing from note/legal pads for this. A file label on the end of the box identifies the bullet and alloy.
I'm a slob I suppose , the only boolits I use a soft lube on are 38 wad cutters and they are stored in coffee cans lubed with my mixture of Crisco / bee's wax + a little bit of this and that thrown in . But I do wipe the base off good when loading them .
I use the 500 rd commercial bullet ( reinforced with packing tape, they last forever )boxes from the days when my kids & I shot a 1,000rds a week in Cowboy Action Shooting. Stacked & separated by "shelves" cut from cereal boxes. Smaller quantities go into smaller plastic boxes from the dollar store.
Unsized/unlubed bullets sit in bigger misc.plastic jugs.
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I use plastic food storage containers , small size and deep enough to stack two boolits.
I stack them in the box , side by side , in nice neat rows, all standing on their base.
When the bottom is filled, a thin piece of cardboard cut to shape the container is put down and another layer of boolits is stacked side by side. When full an adhesive lable ID's what it is and size to info.
This is the only way to keep soft lubed boolits from getting lube all over everything.
As I size/lube them I stack them in the box. Small boxes work better than large ones.
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For my BPCR bullets lubed with emmerts or SPG I store in 100 rd pistol ammo boxes. Keeps bullets separated and in good shape and I can inventory at a glance.
When I lube with 50/50 beeswax/moly grease I find it easier to lube as I go otherwise I end up with messy boolits one way or another! If I’m tumble lubing then it’s not to big of a deal to put some up in inventory.
I put them in a plastic butter container and then proceed to loading them. No storage.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |