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Old March 16, 2009, 09:51 PM   #1
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Brass Storage?

How do you all store your cleaned brass? Right now I've been de-priming them, separating them by headstamp and putting them into shell boxes but its taking up alot of space. I guess I could store them in bags of 100 but where to store all these bags? I probably have 2000 .45 casings and half as many 9mm and .40.
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Old March 16, 2009, 09:54 PM   #2
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Most of my brass is in 5-quart ice cream buckets. I also use plastic grocery bag lined cardboard boxes.
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Old March 16, 2009, 09:57 PM   #3
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jon: Get some of those plastic storage boxes (about 2 shoe box sized) from Wal-Mart. You can stack those high. I have several of those and 4 of those huge plastic barrels that held cheeze balls and pretzels from Sam's Club.
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Old March 16, 2009, 10:00 PM   #4
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I store mine in coffee cans. Empty coffee cans...that is! Welcome to the Firing Line!
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Old March 16, 2009, 10:01 PM   #5
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jon: Get some of those plastic storage boxes (about 2 shoe box sized) from Wal-Mart. You can stack those high. I have several of those and 4 of those huge plastic barrels that held cheeze balls and pretzels from Sam's Club. Dump them in loose. Sport45 has great idea using the plastic ice cream buckets. Anything that you can fill and stack works.
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Old March 16, 2009, 10:20 PM   #6
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I store in 3gal food grade buckets that I get from the Publix bakery for free. Nice lid with a rubber seal and stack neatly in the garage.
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Old March 16, 2009, 11:03 PM   #7
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I take my primed brass, put it in labeled plastic freezer bags and store them in ammo boxes. I have a variety of boxes from .30 cal to 20mm.
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Old March 16, 2009, 11:03 PM   #8
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I store brass as follows: Cases seperated by headstamp then sorted into lots of 100 individual pieces of brass. Then these are placed into plastic stoage bins purchased at Lowes or Home Depot and bins are labeled appropriately. Does not really take up much room on bench as these are stackable and the zip lock bags do good job of preventing oxidization.
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Old March 16, 2009, 11:24 PM   #9
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I use 1 gallon plastic paint buckets with lids that I got at Lowe's or Home Depot (I forget which) They are white and I just write on the outside what caliber and HS with a sharpie. They stack quite well and a gallon bucket holds A BUNCH of brass.

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Old March 17, 2009, 12:13 AM   #10
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Old March 17, 2009, 05:13 AM   #11
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I like the plastic Maxwell House coffee cans. They're sort of square so they stack easier and they have a handle.

Masking tape on the lid to label what's in there. I will sometimes have a mess of brass already primed and ready to load in one while another has brass waiting for the tumbler, etc.
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Old March 17, 2009, 05:24 AM   #12
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Cheap plastic shoe boxes from Freds, Family Dollar, Dollar General or Big Lots. I them label them as the following:

Deprimed
Cleaned
Resized
Caliber
Head Stamp: whether mixed or assorted
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