Bullet Boxes

[Medic505]

I stated in another thread that I keep patches pre-soaked in cleaning fluid on my bench in a yellow Berger box. I have several other uses for those things, what do you do with yours?

Yes I know, it's not even close to being officially winter.

 

[ebb]

All my bits and countersinks for my battery drills are in some kind of bullet boxes. I have a very small collection of trim screws that are in Sierra boxes.

 

[TrapperBR549]

I don't shoot any Bergers so I tried it with Hornady boxes. Unfortunately it soaks through.

 

[cwebster]

Reloading bits and pieces in a .22 CCI 100 round plastic box. Does the Free All evaporate out of the bullet boxes?

 

[Walt Krafft]

Give them to my sister in law who sells trinkets on fleabay.

 

[SEM]

keep odd pulls etc, problem is out of sight out of mind, I have lots of outta sight stuff. Have a fancy new label maker in a drawer somewhere outta sight

 

[Dimner]

I use most of my boxes for bullets that I cast. A couple are used for deprived live primers that I set aside for fireforming or plinking loads.

The tiny Sierra 22 cal boxes also are great for keeping ear plugs or a set of ear buds when you want a bit of protection. Also at my local range we hang our targets with staples or thumbtacks in foam. However, i like using the T push pins one gets from the office supply store. They hold up to wind much better than anything else. They also work when hanging targets on cardboard backing. I got sick of masking tape.

30 cal speer boxes are good for AA and AAA battery storage.

 

[Dgd6mm]

I stack the empty boxes on the shelves in my reloading building and wait for the bullet fairy to refill them.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

Stack them on the shelve so I have move them to find something only to discover that what I was looking for was inside one them

 

[CRJR45]

I have to force myself to toss them out , I try to find a use for them , just to use them if I don't .

 

[JMayo]

I have my stable feet in one.
They fit perfectly.
I gave a box full away last year.

 

[memilanuk]

I stated in another thread that I keep patches pre-soaked in cleaning fluid on my bench in a yellow Berger box. I have several other uses for those things, what do you do with yours?

I found that the flatter shaped ones (from say 155.5s, vs the closer to cube shaped ones for 20Xs) are just the right height to fit in the drawer of my tool cabinet. I keep different kinds of bits in them - phillips in one, flat in another, torx, square, countersink, adapters, etc. each have their own.

Funny story about pre-soaked cleaning patches... (not a Berger box one, though).

Years ago when I still used Sweets 7.62 for cleaning my guns, my shop was an unheated (and poorly insulated) room closed in in one corner of the barn/shop. Window shaker A/C in the summer, and a space heater in the winter. Being on the road from town up to the mountains, it got a tid bit nipply in there - and it was about all the space heater could do to keep it around 40F. Sweets pretty much turns into a gel at those temps, and it was a PiTA to get on a patch. Somewhere along the line I realized that the round cleaning patches I used fit just perfectly inside an old JB bore paste container. So I put a stack in there, and filled it with Sweets. Then I could just pull out a pre-soaked patch when I needed it.

To avoid confusion with the *other* jar of JB, I put a masking tape label on it that said "Patches o' Sweets", as kind of an inside joke. At some point, my wife was out in the shop, saw that jar, picked it up and said "what's this?" Being a smart-a$$ (who, me?) I said "open it and find out". I never imagined that she'd unscrew the lid, look at it, and then hold it up to her nose and take a big old sniff...

So she's there spitting and sputtering, eyes and nose both running because she basically tear-gassed herself, my eyes are running and I can't hardly talk because I'm laughing so hard, and somehow it's all *my* fault...

 

[jelenko]

out of sight out of mind

 

[TIMO]

Many uses, not shooting related but fish hooks in one, sinkers in another as well as other fishing items in others. Keeps those items from getting all mixed together.
Tim

 

[JSH]

I keep them around till I have a bunch I never use, then throw them away. Lo and behold 48 hours or less I could use one for something.
I put screws and rivets in some Hornady boxes, once. Putting things up I wondered why I had bullets with my bolts and screws. Put them on the shelf where they belonged with the rest of my bullets. Forward a few years and getting ready for a prairie dog hunt thinking I had plenty of bullets, was not a good time.

I also find the large and small JB bottles handy for stuff. Seemed like I never had any grease in my range bags, filled up several and stuck in all of my bags. They seal well and don’t leak even when left in the heat of a closed vehicle or trunk.

 

[Medic505]

Cut the lid off, it makes a great pallet to mix JB Weld or small amounts of epoxy.