reloads into ammo cans or 50-100 round boxes?

[bootcamp]

Do you guys put your reloads into bulk military style ammo boxes or do you neatly places them into 50-100 round boxes? Please list what you do and why. Primarily talking about pistol ammo.

Up to now, i've been recycling the factory plastic/cardboard ammo boxes and even picking some out of the garbage at the range to re-use but since i've been loading more and more lately am thinking loosely contained might not be a bad idea either.

[CGK60]

I just put a cloth in bottom of can and pour em in.

[Triple R Munitions]

i load pistol and rifle ammunition in 5 gallon buckets..... they fit in quite well and you can count em later. then i just put them into ammo cans... this is for me.

customers get plastic 4mil sealed bags of either 100 or 50rds with all the info on it.
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[spareparts]

I put them loose in quart sized zip top bags with a piece of paper documenting all the relative information. Stick the bags in ammo cans, boxes, or empty plastic cat litter containers, whatever I have on hand.

[Corbin Dallas]

i load pistol and rifle ammunition in 5 gallon buckets..... they fit in quite well and you can count em later. then i just put them into ammo cans... this is for me.

customers get plastic 4mil sealed bags of either 100 or 50rds with all the info on it.
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Good lord you must reload a TON of rounds. 5gallon bucket??? What are you using? A camdex machine???

[powaybob]

I put 50 to 200 .45 ACP reloads into quart ziplock bags with the recipe and date written on them, and then I put the bags in .50 cal cans. The cans hold 400-600 rounds, which is about as much as you can carry.

[Gunsrruss]

Ammo cans

What I have done is line the ammo cans with card board, then put the rounds in there. Keeps some of the moisture off them

[spencerhut]

Zombie ammo goes into the nice MTM plastic boxes or stays in the factory box so I always know how much I have.
Target and practice ammo goes in the ammo cans, Cabelas boxes, or the 3lb plastic Folgers coffee "cans". I track what I use by loading what I'm going to shoot into some spare MTM boxes or count what I load in the mags.

Cardboard in the cans is a nice, low tech way to keep moisture away.

Zip lock bags are to fragile for me.

Food Saver bags with descant packs for long term storage is great for the home user.

Beta C mags are the best way to store ammo long term ready to use.

[ar15barrels]

When you first start reloading, you put the rounds in those nice plastic boxes.
Eventually, the novelty wear off and you realize how much more practical ammo cans are and you just pour the ammo into the can.

[troysland]

Ok, who else uses MS Excel to track their ammo inventory? A bit anal? Or ??? Not trying to jack this thread, just thought it was relevant to ammo storage and identification.

[mif_slim]

I wish ammo cans can hold my ammo stash.

[WebMoskal]

When you first start reloading, you put the rounds in those nice plastic boxes.
Eventually, the novelty wear off and you realize how much more practical ammo cans are and you just pour the ammo into the can.

LOL, true. After 6 months of reloading, moving on to stage 2

[bootcamp]

Lots of good information guys, thanks! Looks like i'm off to the surplus store to pickup a few more 30 cal cans.

I still like to sort by headstamp so that my accuracy and COAL are all uniform. But I somehow think as I graduate from loading a few hundred at a time to a thousand at a time, sorting headstamp brass will become a thing of the past. We'll see. I can manually sort about a thousand pcs. in an hr.

[ar15barrels]

I wish ammo cans can hold my ammo stash.

You just don't have the right sized cans.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=732712

[ar15barrels]

I somehow think as I graduate from loading a few hundred at a time to a thousand at a time, sorting headstamp brass will become a thing of the past.

I sort by bucket.
9mm in this bucket, 223 in that bucket and 308 in the other bucket...