How do you organize your brass?

[DustyDawg48]

I use the clear plastic 'shoe boxes' you can get from Home Depot or Lowe's. They are see through, stackable and very inexpensive. I have a 2 boxes (minimum) for each caliber I reload. One is for dirty brass and the other is for tumbled brass ready to be put into the reloading cycle.

 

[Broom_jm]

As part of the whole "reduce, reuse, recycle" craze, I use empty coffee containers, mayonnaise containers, and (my favorite) the big, clear pretzel containers.

 

[Robjps]

Lots of coffee cans. I have 2 of each caliber cleaned and unclean. They get full then they need loaded

 

[OneBadV8]

Lots of coffee cans. I have 2 of each caliber cleaned and unclean. They get full then they need loaded

And lots of people tend to give these away. I have a boat load of them and I don't drink coffee. It keeps them in manageable groups, generally light, and they're stackable. And they seal well enough that when I've knocked one over, the lid has stayed on.

 

[red_zr24x4]

Like I said earlier, 5 gal buckets with lids, the cat litter buckets work great.
If I have some primed bass, smaller quantities, they go in the big pretzel jars.
If I only have a small qty. of brass (.380) they go in the coffee cans with lids.
I also store smaller qty's of bullets in the coffee cans, bulk .223/.308 projectiles
My cast bullets all go in coffee cans.

 

[Mgderf]

All of my brass has the open case mouths facing magnetic North.

 

[ctbreitwieser]

I was in Walmart last and decided to go ahead and grab 10 of the plastic shoeboxes for only 0.94c a piece. I like them.

 

[Sirshredalot]

I too use the clear shoe box sized plastic containers.

I think what helped me more than organizing brass into different stages....was to not get the brass in different stages in the first place.

I batch load when I run the single stage....no more than 50-100 rounds at a time so I can make sure I get them all done.

Brass prep is the same way...I will set aside 100-200 cases(or whatever I have time for) and not stop pulling the handle till they are all done.

This way I only have two stages.....clean/ready to load, and dirty....I do separate some of my brass into once/twice fired.

If I do have to stop for some reason, everything stay on the top of my bench...same die in the press, same everything until I can come back to it.

$.02
God bless
-Shred