How do you organize your brass?
I know - in little tubs or plastic bags! Seriously - I reload for a lot of calibers, pistol and rifle. After returning from the range, I usually dump the brass into a plastic bag. When I think there's enough, I clean 'em, size 'em, trim, chamfer etc., then back into a bag waiting to be reloaded. I use whatever brass I have, purchased, range pick ups etc. It's all mixed and I don't attempt to seperate it by manufacturer, times fired etc (although I do keep the Lapua seperate, but not by times fired). Is there a better more organized way? How are some of you doing it?
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I use ziploc bags for all my empty brass. A piece of masking tape on the bag will let you write any and all info you may need.
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large clear plastic bottles from peanuts, storage bins with pull out drawers, vacuum pack bags when the wife is not around to catch me, plastic coffee cans,
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plastic shoe boxes from the store, theyre clear and have snap on lids and are stackable
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I use ziplok bags and put a little piece of paper in each bag with the type of brass, and number of times It's been loaded. I try to keep up with the number of loads as best as I can, but sometimes I get confused.....my wife say's I am often confused!!
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Accuracy Pistol I separate by headstamp and use only Starline and Winchester. After the starline is 3 times fired, I dont keep track of how much its been shot.
IDPA/USPSA rounds get mixed. I shoot to much to sort that stuff. I use big plastic tubs, and the shoe boxes mentioned above to store it.
Rifle rounds get sorted by headstamp and times fired, unless it is AR-15 hoser type rounds. Even then I keep track of where the brass came from and how many times fired.
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Plastic ammo boxes. Sorted, prepped, and maintained the same group.
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Plastic ammo boxes. Sorted, prepped, and maintained the same group.
+1, I use the 50 and 100 round boxes and separate by caliber, case weight and number of times loaded. Large amounts of brass I store in gallon zip lock bags with the same data.
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i use ammo cans like you i have close to 10 cans with some having more than 1 caliber in it inside that i use ziploc bags if they are primed i throw thw cardboard label of the primer in so i will know what primers i used . pistol brass is not sorted ar brass the same except lc brass i keep it seperated for my 308 and 223 bolt guns i keep that brass seperated by brand and what stage of prep it has done to it .i reload alittle different i might tumble all week then deprime, trim resize for more than 1 caliber then prime another week .i always have brass that is ready for powder i just grab throw and go .
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large clear plastic bottles from peanuts, storage bins with pull out drawers, vacuum pack bags when the wife is not around to catch me, plastic coffee cans,
Blue Avenger,
Does vacuum sealing keep them from tarnishing ?
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large clear plastic bottles from peanuts, storage bins with pull out drawers, vacuum pack bags when the wife is not around to catch me, plastic coffee cans,
Blue Avenger,
Does vacuum sealing keep them from tarnishing ?
only been a couple months. heard it dose
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So - it doesn't sound like too many of us track our brass by times fired do we? I try to seperate by headstamp occasionally, but probably 80% of the time it's mixed (and I wonder why my groups always suck?!). ;D
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I use the storage bins from like rural king has 3wide and 5 tall I use them for my 223 brass have used for 204 starting at the top with the lable of rifle I prep new brass and put in the top drawers they are clear so easy to see then leave the 2nd row blank usually holds 240 rounds each then the 3rd drawers I lable 2nd loaded basically varmint rigs but sort from new at top to up to 5th firing depending on brand and loads I decide when to discard brass that way I have a specific Round count for each rifle and keep brass separate and number of loading per
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OH, I do have a lot of plastic box's for what I am using and do count the times fired. the other containers are for storing new and once fired.
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around 8 hundred .308s in a fiber tub with a sealed lid that have been stored 2 years, still so shiny the picture failed
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Tupperware with masking tape to write the information on . . . and zip lock bags, and I usually write with a marker the info on the bag.
The Tupperware is used for my common/most used brass!
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Plastic zip lock bags with the caliber written on with a felt tip pin.
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Like many others here, I use zip lock baggies (various sizes) and mark on them with a sharpie. I'll weigh cases and seperate by 1/10th grain. ;D
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been eying one of them!
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I store my dirty spent brass in covered 5 gallon buckets until I have an opportunity to clean them.
Once cleaned...
For those calibers that I don't have thousands and thousands of cases I use 50caliber ammo cans...
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For those calibers that I do have thousands and thousands of cases I use 20mm ammo cans...
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I store cleaned, prepped, primed and ready to load brass in various plastic containers...
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Looks like nickel 303 Brit.,Where'd you get that?
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Im pretty cheap
I use plastic oil & anti freeze jugs cut off 7 " tall , mark outside with permanent marker ,
I only reload 4 calibers, but I seperate by # 0f X's fired
& RTL ready to load - cleaned trimmed & sized-,
on calibers with more than one rifle , by rifle as I neck size only most of time
-any auto shop will give you as many as you want
I have a set of shelves above my reloading bench
all the jugs set on - works for me
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my wife found clear 1 gallon paint cans with lids at michaels crafts for like $7.00, i just put a label on them for the caliber and set them on the bench and i can see how much of what caliber i have. and considering that i reload for
25-05
260 rem
270 win
280 rem
7mm08
308 win x2
300wm x2
264 wm
35 rem
7.62x54r
380 auto
9mm
40 s&w
45acp
44mg
45colt
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