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    How many bins do you have for each caliber?
    Trying to organize my stuff a little better.
    Assuming one caliber:
    1 bin for all fired brass? 1 for each headstamp?
    1 bin for deprimed/tumbled brass?
    1 bin for cleaned and sized?

    Seems like I never have enough bins...
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  • #2
    1 bin per bullet caliber, weight, and style.
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    • #3
      How much do you load?
      How many different loads per caliber?
      Mixed brass?

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      • #4
        One bin for spent brass. Loaded ammo is placed in it's separate carriers be it boxes or bags. Shotgun shells go in a tub to be loaded and another after being loaded.
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        • #5
          also need to talk about what size bins. I have a whole lot of bins. For the most popular calibers I use big bins, which are like 14" wide or so.
          Last edited by CJ; 08-05-2014, 07:38 PM.
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          • #6
            I load .308, .38/.357
            Soon to load .380, 9mm, .357sig, .223. I am currently stocking up on brass. Have primers and powder, just need to buy bullets and going to get a Dillon square deal B for all pistol loads.

            All my brass is mixed headstamp. .308 is mostly Lapua and Hornady Match with a few others in the mix.
            Up to this point I don't sort by headstamp.
            1 bin for fired brass needing deprimed and tumbled.
            1 bin for deprimed and tumbled ready to size prime and load
            Loaded ammo goes into ammo boxes.

            So 6 bins for what I load right now, with all the other calibers once fired brass each in their own bin, total of 10 bins. Do I keep it at just 2 per caliber for a total of 14 bins or sort even further by headstamp? That would mean I would need probably 30+ bins for what I load/will load.
            Last edited by BlackGT; 08-05-2014, 08:16 PM.
            "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, 1776

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            • #7
              The main things I reload are .308/7.62x51, 5.56, and 9mm. For those I clean the brass and then store them in 5gal buckets. For the smaller lots of brass I simply keep on hand and occasionally reload I bought this:



              ^ This is nice to have for all those oddball calibers and for the stuff you don't usually reload as it allows me to store so that I can trade later on for calibers I do reload.

              When I go to the range I usually only shoot a few calibers and ask that whoever is kind enough to help me clean up brass to please separate the few calibers I shoot. I keep them in a box and then tumble them. Once ready, I try to process/reload in the same day.

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              • #8
                I use these and they stack nicely (I don't have that grid to hang the bins from). I used to use cheap plastic containers from walmart and the weight from several stacked on top of each other started to crush the lids. I currently have these stacked 5 high with them mostly full of brass and no issues.



                Each of them holds about 1.8 gallons

                How I'm using them on my bench


                Oh and to answer your question, for pistol calibers I use one bin each. For rifle calibers I usually have 2-3 depending on what stage I am on (I batch reload on a turret press) so I could have one for 223 cleaned, 1 for sized, 1 for primed and so-on.
                Last edited by bottlerocket; 11-20-2014, 04:42 PM.

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