How do you store your brass?

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The brass I use for matches, hunting or defense is stored in 50 or 100 round MTM boxes. Everything else is stored in plastic coffee cans. I still have a few 1 or 2 gallon ice cream containers that a buddy used to save from his Dairy Queen. Those have slowly deteriorated and that source is now gone. Whatever its in, it is sorted by caliber and head stamp and any other important info is listed on or in the container.

I've actually been sorting, washing, depriming/resizing and tumbling pistol brass for a few weeks now. Trying to get everything cleaned up and the culls sorted out. Glad I had a stock of coffee cans saved back!
 
I use empty pretzel tubs from Costco. You can easily see what’s on them - but I do label everything. No extra cost as i have to eat the pretzels anyway!
The entire family saves them for me.
 
I put my empty brass in those plastic, 31oz. Yuban coffee containers and put those into MTM ACR8 Ammo Crates. I put a label on the coffee container lid and on the outside of the crate. Then stack 'em up.

For some reason last year, some Amazon resellers on ebay were selling the ammo crates for $15 shipped so they were pretty cost effective for me.
 
1 gallon zip lock bags, then into 1' X 1' boxes. This way the boxes are much easier to move around. Not as heavy.
 
I put mine in Zip-Lok freezer bags and those bags into five gallon buckets with lids modified to unlatch easily. Stack 4 high easily and unless totally full not too bad to move around when wanted. I make a thin plywood divider with smaller amounts of brass and keep two kinds of brass in a bucket if needed. Or I use three gallon buckets for smaller amounts of brass. Mine are the round ones and I get ten or more free every year.
 
One gallon ice cream containers. I use paper tape to note the cartridge and note the stage that it is in; dirty, raw (cleaned), RTL (ready to load) and primed (with what primer also).
Works for my small amounts of brass.
 
For pistol brass I store mine in half gallon milk jugs. I use a sharpie to write the caliber and head stamp on the side and on the cap. We go through a couple jugs a week so it's a great way to recycle and they do stack nicely.

For bottle neck brass I store them in small half gallon buckets that my dogs hip treats come in. They also stack nicely.
 
I clean, tumble, and store brass in plastic bags, then put the bags into cheap, Walmart "Tupperware" boxes to keep them together. Unfortunately, when I go digging around under my benches, I am constantly finding more brass.
 
55 gallon drums on casters, for the 556/223 and 308, another one full of misc. rifle brass, in gallon bags, and totes of each caliber pistol. I keep all of my 44mag loaded, in ammo boxes full, but that is the only caliber, that I don't have alot of stock, in reserve. My wife and I, went to the range, picking up for years, up until last year, when I looked around the shop and finally decided we couldn't fit anymore barrels or totes, so had to quit. I have one 55 gallon drum full, of just LC 556, from the police shoots.
 
Once cleaned, my empty brass goes into kitty litter buckets. They are rectangular, so they store efficiently. They stack and are very sturdy. And they aren't so heavy when full that you can't move them from/to a shelf without busting a gut. And I'm always buying more so if one cracks it's no problem/cost to replace it. If you work it right, you can color code them (red lids for decapped brass, blue lids for cleaned only).
 
Plastic containers with lids.... Coffee cans, ice cream or candy jars... whatever's handy. I don't have all that much.
 
TfflHndn said:
Once cleaned, my empty brass goes into kitty litter buckets. They are rectangular, so they store efficiently. They stack and are very sturdy. And they aren't so heavy when full that you can't move them from/to a shelf without busting a gut. And I'm always buying more so if one cracks it's no problem/cost to replace it. If you work it right, you can color code them (red lids for decapped brass, blue lids for cleaned only).
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I like that idea a lot. Especially since in the new house I build in a few years SWMBO has already Ok'd a dedicated room in the house for the reloading/gun room instead of it being out in the shop. I just need to come up with a decent design on cabinets/bench that I can store everything neatly so it's out of sight most of the time. I figured it up tonight, I have about 30+ gallons of just 9mm, any idea how much those hold? I have cats but just not an empty container to test out.
 
Anything and everything. I have unpolished 9mm (which I don't reload, but I get the brass free, so I polish it and trade it) in an old 7.62 spam can, unpolished .40 (another one I don't reload) in a cardboard box, .223 unpolished in a kitty litter pail like Chuck R has; I store polished but unworked brass in some boxes that the candy in the dump bins (those bins in the main alleys at walmart) come in-they are sturdy and fit nice in my cabinet with the bullets and primers; and last but not least, I store worked and primed brass in the locking clear plastic boxes from walmart. (Hey I get a discount, I work there...) The loaded ammo goes in factory boxes (find them garbage can diving at the range) in military ammo cans.
 
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