How do you organize your gun "stuff?"

I use bins like this http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail...gclid=CKermd7c3bkCFUdo7AodMFYAcw&gclsrc=aw.ds

I go with the some here, some there, a little in every closet approach. Untill I add on to my shop building it probably won't ever be all in the same place.

How do you organize your gun "stuff?"

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Like I organize everything else around the house.
If there is a empty flat space, I put stuff on it.

Roll around tool boxes...

Metal three shelf bookcase on top of a metal office desk..............then pretty much any flat or nearly flat or used to be flat space I can find after the shelves are full.

Mostly in ammo boxes marked with what is in it...................

Harbor freight has a great deal on tool chests right now. I just picked up 26" 16 drawer one with a 20% off coupon for $319. Not using it for gun stuff but for $350 it's hard to beat.

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=Tool+chest

I started with a Kennedy roll-about toolbox. The bottom box, with three drawers. I cut a piece of 3/4" plywood to fit the top, mounted my press to that, and kept all the dies, powder, and other bits in the drawer or the open space underneath.

It worked well in the late 1980s; I'd roll it over to my desk and reload while waiting for 1200 or 2400 baud downloads to complete. Sometimes my wife would roll it into the living room and load while watching TV.

I haven't reloaded much since the early 1990s, but somehow the accumulation of "stuff" continued. I took two station-wagon-loads of reloading stuff over to a friend's house last year, and we set it all up in his brand-new gun room. Yes, I have to drive over to his house to load now, but it takes less time than digging through a dozen places looking for something I thought I bought twenty years ago...

TonyDedo;

I just keep my eye out for used filing cabinets, surplus military double-door wall lockers, things like that. Most of the time these purchases are in the $20.00 - 40.00 range. They may need a dent knocked out, or keys made, but I've always been able to put them to good use.

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I usee stackable containers in various sizes for mainly things like cleaning equipment, tools, extra grips, spare magazines, and other accessories. Larger upright containers for cleaning supplies, powder, and any other large bottles or cannisters. Medium size tackle box for really small items, like screws, spare parts, etc. Ammo cans for ammo and large totes for everything else.

I mostly use M2A1 ammo cans and then make labels marking the front, top, and sides of them. My gun safes only contain guns and I don't have enough room for the guns alone anymore. Haha.

Shelves and benches and containers. Get a good small tool box or two with drawers. Get a job site box for larger stuff.

For those of us without formal shops, it can be a real challenge. I use rubbermade totes for some of it. For example I found that a single tote called "gun parts" works far better than lots of little containers. I just put the parts, even very small ones, in ziplock bags and mark on them what they are. Then they ALL go in the tote. That way if I'm looking for some part or piece I stuck in there five years ago, there is only one place to look, not fifty. I also keep cleaned brass in ziplocks tossed in a tote.

Range stuff stays in a box near the door so I can easily sort through it for trips. This includes ready-packs of ammo I've prepared in ziplock bags, so I can just toss the bag in my bag and I'm ready to go. It also has such things as staples, earplugs, and targets.

Reloading items are on an industrial shelving unit organized by caliber. I find this works better than trying to keep them in a tote and makes it much easier to find the bullets and dies when I need them.

Smokeless powder is in a tote, and black powder is in the mud room in a wooden box. If I had a tool shed it would be there, but it's as far away from any people as I can put it while still being inside. In case of a fire it will be my priority to grab.

I store my magazines in purple Crown Royal bags. Not sure what fiber they are made with, but it's soft and breathable. I just spritz the bags with Rem oil w/VCI and hang the bags with mags inside.

Depends on the type of item.

TonyDedo asked about magazines/holsters/mag carriers etc for different guns.

I use the snap lid, plastic food storage boxes. Buy the cheap ones at the Dollar store. They stack nicely on shelves, and can be labelled with either computer printed stick on labels, a label maker or just a marking pen. They're in a converted closet off my 'office'. (There's more in there.)

Reloading components go on Rigid Rack or Gorilla Rack shelving. Bullets on one, brass on another (two, actually, rifle and pistol calibers), and powder and primers on different levels on a separate unit. This unit is cased in one inch plywood to satisfy 'universal fire code' specs.

The bullets are in original boxes, usually, but some (the .32 auto stuff) is all in one ammo can, but still in original boxes. In the reloading room in basement.

Brass is stuffed into ammo cans with hang tags from the stationary store on the exposed end showing contents. I tried stick on labels, but the labels I bought didn't stick to the can very well. I'll have to try again. In the reloading room in basement.

Primers and powder in original packing and spaced out a bit. Shelf in a private area away from reloading room in basement.

Loaded ammo in plastic ammo boxes on a different shelf in the powder room in basement.

Reloading dies and tool heads (Dillon XL650) are right now just on the end of the bench. I'm working on a wall mounted cabinet that will hold them in a rack and not rest on the decapping pins. All the 'switch parts' for caliber changes are in a 'parts organizer'. In the reloading room in basement.

Range equipment - chronograph, range box with tools, earmuffs, rifle rest, spotting scope and such are in a converted closet off my 'office'. Shelving holds variations on tool boxes holding all the stuff.

Gun belts are on clothes hooks in the same closet.

Targets are a mess. I'm putting together another shelf unit with fairly wide shelves to store targets flat. That will also be in the basement.

Yes, I'm single and own my own home. Don't hate me for this; three women already do.

How do you organize your gun "stuff?"

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You gotta be kidding!

Long guns in tall safe, "most" handguns in a small (Winchester from Costco) safe built into a standup bench. Two locked drawers in standup bench, one for primers, one for knives and "stuff". Shelves built around rifle safe hold powders, bullets, dies and brass by caliber and also includes a double-locked compartment, about 24X36X8 filled with loaded ammo. Sit-down bench with press on one end, two work lights over it. Bookshelves above both benches, cleaning supplies on one and actual books on the other. Good key-locking door and no windows, all this in a 6'X8' room in the corner of the only building (garage) I've ever built.

But I had a plan and enjoyed every minute of it.

Piles of boxes and totes filled with ziplock bags.

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Well here's a pic of my bench & my ammo shelves.
One shelf is reloaded ammo, & the top shelf is empty clean brass waiting to be reloaded

Search Craigslist, thrift stores, used office furniture stores, and used building materials stores for toolboxes, cabinets, drawer stacks, all kinds of used things. Repurpose, reuse, and recycle!

Clean and organized is the only way.

I cannot imagine using old file cabinets, tupperware and coffee cans to maintain parts and supplies, but the proper collection of benches and toolboxes would be the minimum acceptable. Perhaps even a quarterly inventory to ensure supply levels are adequate.