Cheap Reloading Tricks

[TowsonTiger22]

Since I didn't see one here yet, I figured it'd be good to have. I read a similar thread elsewhere, and it helped me with my initial setup.

Mine is to use the containers that lunch meat come in (the gladware type ones) to store almost anything. Since lunch makes simple food for a college student, I have a lot of them....

[soundwave]

Along those lines, I have been using cottage cheese containers to hold bullets. Works well.

[layusn1]

Since lunch makes simple food for a college student,

Lunch is complicated food for professionals. J/K.

I pick up all the 22lr cases I can find so I can recycle them for components and range fees. Nobody else is pickin em up.

[DssG19]

Lunch is complicated food for professionals. J/K.

I pick up all the 22lr cases I can find so I can recycle them for components and range fees. Nobody else is pickin em up.


How many 22lr cases do you have to collect to make this profitable? I would think finding aluminum cans would be easier than scrounging for 22lr, but you might be onto something. What kinda poundage are you gathering?

[lcarreau]

Lunch is complicated food for professionals. J/K.

I pick up all the 22lr cases I can find so I can recycle them for components and range fees. Nobody else is pickin em up.


That is some pretty tedious CRB work. I am glad someone does it. :)

[lcarreau]

I have been saving the large Similac containers for component storage.

[BIGGUNGOBOOM]

i use coffee cans, sour cream cans, and cottage cheese cans. all work great for storing boolits.

[Pitmaster]

Plastic peanut butter jars. Red is for .9mm and blue is for .45.

Plastic mayo jars.

Both use a nice clear, heavy plastic, with good lids.

[layusn1]

How many 22lr cases do you have to collect to make this profitable? I would think finding aluminum cans would be easier than scrounging for 22lr, but you might be onto something. What kinda poundage are you gathering?

Well, here is how I see it. I can't really bend up and down so when I am pickin up brass I often have to get down on the ground. I grab EVERYTHING that is brass. If I can use it myself it goes in my stash. If I can't use it it goes in my tradin stash. If it is bent, crumpled, or otherwise damaged it goes in the recyle stash. If I am down on the ground anyway I may as well pick up the 22lr cases while I am there right? My recycle place will not take brass with primers in them so the easiest thing for me to recycle is 22lr anyway. Aluminum cans are a pain in the butt, I can't stand there long enough to crush them, I tried and it hurt like hell. I had to crush them all with my hands, filled up a 30 gal trash bag and got $5 for all the pain and trouble. Better return on investment in free brass.