How do you store your brass

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31 March 2021, 03:52

ramrod340

How do you store your brass

Just wondering how you store your prepped brass? I've been using ziplock bags. Quart and gallon depending on the amount of brass. Works ok until you drop the bag or the zipper fails.

31 March 2021, 04:04

Dulltool17

Same here, Paul.

I find the heavier duty freezer bags hold up better.

31 March 2021, 04:21

Clayman

The appropriate size MTM box. I was looking today, and I probably have almost $500 worth of them. Midway just dropped off a half dozen more. They stack well, protect everything, and transition nicely from fired to prepped brass to loaded rounds. I briefly flirted with other methods, but the lack of organization drove me nuts.

31 March 2021, 04:36

df06

Zip lock bags also.

31 March 2021, 05:07

p dog shooter

Card board Boxes, plastic boxes, bags, buckets, ammo cans, coffee cans almost any smaller container thought of.

I have brass in.

Maybe I have to much to be picky how I store it.

31 March 2021, 05:48

Saeed

Plastic containers and zip lock bags.

31 March 2021, 05:48

bradhe

Rifle brass in MTM cases if prepped and usually after fired (except for 5.56)

Pistol brass mostly in 5 gallon buckets either dirty or prepped

31 March 2021, 07:32

Beretta682E

zip lock bags

i normally put a cutout of the ammo box to identify the brass.

i don’t reload and this brass is building up.

i am thinking i sell it on ar to someone who will sort count and then pay me for the whole damn lot

. till then it builds in my mess of a garage.

Mike

31 March 2021, 07:59

Uncle Grinch

I use these drawer organizer trays that I got from Dollar General. My long term storage is Folgers plastic coffee cans.

31 March 2021, 11:17

georgeld

Very small quantities it looks like.
For such, these are great.

When the qty amounts to most of, or more than
five gallon buckets full of each. These small
boxes won't work.

IF prepped and/or primed ahead, seal a lid on 'em. IF just used brass, open buckets stacked up.

Loaded stuff, in sealed ammo cans. Prefer SAW
cans for my needs as they hold more.

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31 March 2021, 20:55

p dog shooter

quote:
When the qty amounts to most of, or more than
five gallon buckets full of each. These small
boxes won't work.

That's want I found

31 March 2021, 22:22

DesertRam

Most of my brass is in old metal coffee cans. I created adhesive labels with check boxes to track the progress of each batch of brass (cleaned, sized, trimmed, etc.). I can tell at a glance the cartridge and brand, number of times fired, and status of the brass in the can.

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01 April 2021, 03:34

B L O'Connor

I use ziplock bags for rifle brass and I store the bags in plastic MTM ammo cans. I separate brass by manufacturer and on each bag I write the number of times fired and, if sized, trimmed and primed, the primer I used.

I don't separate handgun brass other than by caliber, and once separated by caliber and cleaned, I store it in ½ gallon (?) bucket-like plastic Reser's potato salad containers.

20 April 2021, 02:22

Atkinson

Metal coffee cans, with a papper towel folded in the bottom, and the original plastic lid..Never been a problem..count an whatever on the lid with a black marks a lot..Some in various sizes of plastic sandwich type bags that zip lock..I ran out of shoe boxes..

Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

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20 April 2021, 03:56

richj

plastic showe boxes sound like a good idea. I use lock & lock plastic containers or big plastic mayo jars.

20 April 2021, 21:21

cal30 1906

I use plastic coffee cans and 1 gallon freezer bags. Mostly 1 gallon bags though.

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21 April 2021, 10:12

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

Cool Whip bowls, ice cream containers any nice clean food container of half gallon size or smaller. I usually put a note saying if it's once-fired or needs trimming, etc. Sometimes plastic bags for small quantities.

23 April 2021, 21:00

Atkinson

What ever you use, it needs a tight top, as you will sooner or later drop one, dirt will collect (I live on a dirt road and dust is always a problem out of the city) and believe it or not flys, bugs and spider find comfy homes in shell casings, do they hurt a thing, don't know but I don't particularly like the idea of 50 grs. of whatever and .05 grs of bug..

Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

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24 April 2021, 05:41

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

If you have good hand and can remove any odors sometimes those half or gallon size pickle jars are good because you can see what's inside.