Ideas for carrying rifle loads to the range beside those plastic cartridge boxes?

[JWFilips]

Just wondering if you folks have any neat ideas for carrying your sorted rifle loads to the range besides those flip top plastic boxes?
I'm getting tired of all those zip lock baggies in my kit. I have a few flip top plastic boxes but I always seem to need more.

[EDG]

You can use the Zip Loc and Glad brand plastic food containers with the snap on tops.119816

[3006guns]

Don't laugh.........I started using 1 gallon zip lock bags several years ago. I even started washing/drying them out after the wife empties them...recycling at its finest. People chuckle at my "bag 'o bullets" but I can easily get over 100 rifle rounds in one. I place them carefully in a .50 caliber ammo can and, unlike boxes, they form themselves to the inside of the can allowing me to pack quite a few in there. I have yet to get one damaged cast boolit and all I have to do is pull one out, open it up and grab a handful of ammo. On a long weekend camping trip I have plenty to shoot and no boxes all over the place.

Sounds silly and maybe a bit "unprofessional" but believe me, it works.

[marvelshooter]

Another ziplocker here.

[Alvarez Kelly]

What caliber(s) do you need boxes for? I have a bunch of extra ones that need a home. If I have any in the size(s) you need, they're yours.

[Bayou52]

I use 50 cal and 30 cal ammo cans filled with plastic bags of ammo..........

Bayou52

[JWFilips]

Alverez Kelly, Thanks

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[Eddie2002]

Don't laugh too hard but I'm using soup cans with the removable snap on plastic dog food lids. I shoot 30-06, 7.62x54r and 7.7 jap and can fit around 30 rounds in each can. They are air tight and pack in my range bag nicely. I lable the lid and the can with the load information and pad the bottom of the can with a piece of cloth or paper towel. Toss in a pack of silica gel and they are good for a few years at least.
Got tired of using the plastic holders which take up a lot of room in the ammo cans. Still using zip lock baggies for 10 rounds or under experimental loads.

[SPRINGFIELDM141972]

I scrounge the trash barrels at the range and pull out the ammunition boxes. Once and a while I will score and find a box with the empty brass shoved back in the plastic holders.

Regards,
Everett

[Safeshot]

Empty medicine bottles. Plastic food containers (such as peanut butter jars). The little blue boxes that Midway sells the "J" word bullets in. Recycled ctg. boxes. The .30 & .50 cal. Ammo cans (just dump the ammo in the cans). The OD Green plastic "dry boxes" that are somewhat like ammo cans. Plastic "bubble wrap" bags or envelopes (recycled). Cleaned and recycled "shot bags". Basically whatever is "available & handy".

[opos]

Empty medicine bottles. Plastic food containers (such as peanut butter jars). The little blue boxes that Midway sells the "J" word bullets in. Recycled ctg. boxes. The .30 & .50 cal. Ammo cans (just dump the ammo in the cans). The OD Green plastic "dry boxes" that are somewhat like ammo cans. Plastic "bubble wrap" bags or envelopes (recycled). Cleaned and recycled "shot bags". Basically whatever is "available & handy".


++1 for cleaned out peanut butter jars...my Wife even has a special peanut butter jar brush to clean them out with...my safe is full of ammo in peanut butter jars with dessicant packs in each one...everything nice and tidy

[skizzums]

I have all my ammo in mason jars
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the last time I was at the range, some kid walker by and said "you have jars of ammo? that's the coolest thing ever".....not sure why its soooo cool, but ill take any compliment I can get.

my stockpile ammo goes in the corresponding empty powder canister used to make it

[dikman]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-2ml-50-frame-Frozen-pipe-Frozen-box-cryotube-vials-Centrifuge-tube-Box-LC207-/310643086279

$4. Holds 50 44-40 cartridges, or 50 small vials (18 gns) of black powder for my revolver. Clear, so I can see what's inside, and cheap!

[dragon813gt]

If it's load development I use the MTM boxes. Once a load is worked up they go into an ammo can. If I'm only shooting one firearm I bring the ammo can. If I'm shooting multiple then ziploc bags go in ammo cans.

[GhostHawk]

Frankly I'm in the mid point of switching over to the MTM boxes.

Nothing else seems to work as well, give me as many options, for what really is a pretty low cost.

I started with 2 and quickly found out how well they worked.
Set it up to the right of my Mosin, take a round out, load it, shoot it, put the empty back.
No mess, no fuss, no bother.

So I just ordered some more in pistol calibers to go with my Rifles.

[W.R.Buchanan]

I use a lot of lunch meat plastic containers. We go thru a lot of Hillshire Farms lunch meats and the containers are very useful in the shop. I use them for storing Boolits, Bullets, moulds, gun parts, you name it.

The good thing about them is you don't have to worry about hurting them since there are plenty more where they came from.

I just bought 6000 .224 bullets from Mid South. They now live in 6 of these plastic containers. Each one holds 1000 perfectly.

Also have a bunch of those plastic ammo boxes and I just bought a few more because Midway had them on sale for like $2 each. I seldom take more than two to the range so that is not a problem and they fit in my range bag for whatever gun I'm shooting. Storing them back at the shop is a different story and they do take up space. I fact I'm looking for a place to put the new ones I just got.

I use Ziplocs too, and that is where most of my unloaded brass resides.

In a machine shop the need for containers never ceases. and the Reloading Bench is nothing more than an extension of the Machine shop.

Randy

[garym1a2]

I like the 32oz plastic mayo jars.

[Beagle333]

Ziplocks rule! [smilie=2: (I never know what to do with that little emoticon, so I'll use it here. )

[doc1876]

I am starting to spoil myself, and do like the new labels that I can print on both sides, glue to the insides of the box lid, and see what I have in it. Then they are placed in this tool box I got at the flee market. Seems to be sturdy, and convenient.

[Johnny_V]

I like using the 50 round cartridge boxes, especially for load development (can't beat being organized when testing loads). I also label each box so I know what I'm doing (age has a way of making you screw up, even when you're organized)....:veryconfu :veryconfu :veryconfu

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[MDphotographer]

I shoot mostly .30 carbine and .223 for an AR no real load development needed but I carrly my ammo to the range in a pair of old WW! grenade vests that i had webbing sown to to form an H harness and a bag sown to the belt between the two vests in back for a range bag.East vest has 11 pockets and each pocket will hold 4 10rnd stripper clips of .223,5 10rnd stripper clips of .30 carbine or 3 15rnd carbine mags.I slip into the harness at the range and leaves my hands free for carrying rifles spotting scope etc etc

[loveruger]

Everybody uses cool whip on apple pie I just use a lot of it my ammo goes in the cool whip containers.

[W.R.Buchanan]

Beagle333. It means "motoring rite along"

Randy

[MaryB]

If it is bulk ammo for blasting I go for the smaller 30 cal ammo cans

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For my hand loads I use the little plastic flip boxes. If I order something I pad it out with a bunch of those, especially if they are on sale. I need to toss some baggies in the range bag for brass though.

[triggerhappy243]

I use the 50 and 100 round mtm boxes with the new hinge design. I have close to 120 ammo boxes... all full of something.

[triggerhappy243]

part 2.... a long time ago I was doing load development and dropped a cheap ammo box on the line and all my loads(5 different) scattered every where.

[Whiterabbit]

Never found anything that works as well as an MTM box. One caveat, it MUST MUST MUST have a real hinge. I'd rather have cartridges loose in my pocket than use a living hinge box ever again.

I buy them like some guys buy AR magazines. When at the store, buy one or two. Midway or brownells order, buy one or two. They don't add any cost to the order, but after a year I have enough to hold a couple thousand rounds.

They stack nicely on a shelf too, and segregate hunting ammo from range ammo, from bullet A from boolit B, C, and D....

I load by the hundred or couple hundreds though. If I loaded by the thousand or thousands, I'd probably use 50 cal cans and ziplocks too.

[triggerhappy243]

I still have some of the older live hinge type boxes. so far they are still holding up. but I do love the new boxes with the real hinge. it opens... and stays open.

[dieselrealtor]

I have purchased quite a few of the Berrys bullet boxes, they aren't hinged like the MTM however they are holding up very well & pretty cheap, free shipping with $75 or more. They have a lifetime guarantee, not sure how to make a claim.

[triggerhappy243]

the shipping costs more than the box you send back