Storage of Brass

[Blue68f100]

I use 3 gal screw top buckets for my brass storage. The 5 gal ones gets too heavy for me and my bad back. These can be ordered from most all Industrial supply houses. Most used for Over pack of Haz material.

Stay away from the Pool Chlorine Buckets. The chlorine residue will attack your brass. I've tried cleaning some up and never got them where you could not smell the chlorine.

 

[Johnnyd]

Why not store prepared brass in a five gallon bucket? I have two ready for reloading one of 40S&W and one of 45 ACP. Scoop from the bucket right into the case feeder in the Dillon 650.

Normally I rep and reload. If I'm not going to reload within a few days I store them in something air tight so they don't tarnish. It very well could be a 5 gal bucket.

 

[GSPKurt]

Ziplock bags in five gallon buckets or tote containers.

 

[GSPKurt]

Had a guy tell me to seal ammo in a bag with a handwarmer. I haven’t tried it. Anyone ever hear of it or do it yourself?

I've never heard of this.

 

[FROGO207]

The hand warmer takes oxygen out of the air to function so there might be something to it. But whatever the other chemicals ate that are in it and how they react to brass would be my worry.

 

[entropy]

I keep brass in various stages of working in different containers. I toss range brass in a plastic shoe box until I have time to run it in the tumbler. It then goes into these containers,

(The lock on, sealed tops are not shown here) until worked, then primed, then loaded, when they go into military ammo cans. (Some goes in loose in bulk, some in boxes, some in stripper clips) I put those little garage sale price dots on the top of the containers, labeled for what stage they are at. I use the green dots for labeling my shotgun reloads, because I use Green Dot in them. Those go in reused boxes in reused flats. Empty hulls are stored in totes with covers on.

I do also keep brass I don't load for currently in the cabinet in the corner there, as well as my primers and bullets. The brass in there is kept in candy boxes from my overnight stocking days at work.

 

[Harriw]

I use those same clear Rubbermaid bins that entropy showed to store empty shotgun hulls. For brass, I like using those plastic pretzel jars (kegs, really), and large plastic salsa jars to store brass:

 

[nettlle]

Mostly plastic buckets with lids. But I don't mind using cardboard boxes either. Anything that keeps dust out.

 

[horseman1]

I clean, size, trim, prime and put the prepped brass inside a ziplock bag (labeling the primer and brass headstamp) in clean coffee cans. Seems to work OK for me in Colorado. Just load them up when I'm ready. We do have very low humidity though, so that might be a factor in the sucess of this method. Good luck!