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If you care that much, buy a counting scale. One that will go to 66# will cost about $150. However, I don't think that level of accuracy is very important. I think of ammo like nails; no contractor counts individual nails. All you really care about is have plenty and don't ever run out.Comment
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I keep my reloaded stuff in those 50 round plastic boxes. My problem is what to do with all the odd ball stuff. Like 9 rounds of 3 inch 12 ga #4 shot, or 23 rounds of .45 ACP of unknown origin, etc, etc, etc. to good to just toss, not good enough to shoot.
I should say, I've got 10 or 20 of the 50 round boxes, for all the calibers I normally shoot, that I refill, from from bulk after returning from the range. when my bulk ammo gets to where I can see the bottom of the ammo can, I crank up the reloader.Mike M.
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I keep a spreadsheet. When I go to the range and fire a box, if I am not keeping the brass I just pull off the end cardboard tab of the ammo box that has the brand, caliber etc. and throw the rest of the box away. I bring those tabs home with me so I can remember to deduct the ammo from the spreadsheet - the tab tells me what and how many were in the box. After I have logged it, I toss the tab.
It is a lot easier if you started keeping track early on in your hoarding phase. If you already have a couple hundred pounds of ammo, it is a lot harder to get your spreadsheet started.Comment
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I keep my stash of new stuff in ammo cans with the caliber and quantity marked on the outside. I reload for everything I own so I haven't touched the new stuff for years, except for the .22LR. I keep up to 1,500 each of the reloads in 50 or 100 round ammo boxes marked with the load date and how many time that brass has been fired. I then shoot oldest first, reload when I have shot 200 or 300 and put those at the bottom of the stack.Comment
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For me, inventory of primers, powder, and bullets is more important. I'll keep several plastic boxes of rounds but mostly I just store bulk in the bullet boxes and load up the plastics before the range. Usually I keep track of how much I've reloaded, then build up inventory of components. Like, I'll load four boxes of bullets, that'd be 2k rounds. I do one caliber at a time, and do a large batch before I switch caliber.
I don't keep track necessarily of how much loaded ammo I have on hand other than roughly how many range trips are left. I am more interested in what's left over to reload. I try to keep that at a healthy level.NRA Life Member since 1990
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This is what I do, and use a spreadsheet. Also, I have "range" or "R" marked ammo boxes or baggies. I put aside ~200-500 rounds of calibers I shoot more often, and write range or R on the box or baggie. This way, I deduct the amount of ammo I shoot fewer times from my total quantity.Comment
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I use plastic ammo boxes . They are labeled for caliber - but most just the color of boxes .
Straight up = loaded , upside down = MT , but cleaned and primed .
Fired / range brass - go into sonic , vibrator or tumbler .
Way to many calibers to store in ammo boxes / cans .
When nephews / nieces come for ammo , then mags are filled and plastic boxes go into ammo can or range bag .
As for powder , primers and pills - they will generally buy one or 2 of what they are shooting .
Primers - I keep at least 2 bricks of each [ they are kept in ammo cans ] , powder 3 - 1 pounder's , bullets [ mostly off net ] at least 3 boxes of 100 .
We do pick up calibers we don't have and put in the boxes that are thrown away - We take a milk / soda crate with them for trading of calibers we have too many cases of or don't shoot . Like the 9 mm mac , 30/30 , 30/06 , 243 , 270 [ way to many mt's ]life member - CRPA and NRA
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I put it on shelves with the older stuff in the front sorted by caliberNRA Endowment Life Member
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