How do you organize your pellet/slug collection
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Wow bdzjlz! What a novel shelf for this application!!! I love it!
Quad82 use of ammo cans sideways is also a really great concept.
I am starting to lean toward combining three of these ideas. Getting a toolbox for the pellets that I shoot regularly, building a shelf like bdzjlz for the odd-balls that I only shoot when I am testing pellets, and using a metal shelf for the extra stock organized by caliber then weight then lot. This is great! I have a bonafide plan now that totally makes sense to a geeky nerd like myself.
Thank you all for your input! This has been a great and VERY informative thread!!
Quad82 use of ammo cans sideways is also a really great concept.
I am starting to lean toward combining three of these ideas. Getting a toolbox for the pellets that I shoot regularly, building a shelf like bdzjlz for the odd-balls that I only shoot when I am testing pellets, and using a metal shelf for the extra stock organized by caliber then weight then lot. This is great! I have a bonafide plan now that totally makes sense to a geeky nerd like myself.
Thank you all for your input! This has been a great and VERY informative thread!!
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Today I moved to put my pellets in airtight steel pails.
Discovered, I have approximately 8.5 gallons of .22 pellets and slugs and 5 gallons of .30 cal pellets and slugs.
Discovered, I have approximately 8.5 gallons of .22 pellets and slugs and 5 gallons of .30 cal pellets and slugs.
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It seems like that may make it hard to keep track of what you have in there. Did you make some sort of inventory sheet or something? I keep mine in Excel, but that keeps me in front of my computer. That pail would be great to grab if the $h!t hit the fan, but seems like it would make shooting more difficult day-to-day if you have a large assortment of pellets. Just wondering...
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I don't have many varieties. Basically the 5 or 6 varieties are in vertical stacks, so it's easy to pick out what I want.
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Two years ago I throw out/traded all my .177 and promised myself two calibres only, a .22 and .25 and only have one gun for each.
This year I started plinking away all my testing pellets and slowly migrating to heavy weights.
Trying to simplify, my plan is to keep only 2-3 weight sizes max for each cal, and slowly heading that way.
This year I started plinking away all my testing pellets and slowly migrating to heavy weights.
Trying to simplify, my plan is to keep only 2-3 weight sizes max for each cal, and slowly heading that way.
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I'd be happy just to have some of the space a lot of you do...lol. Sadly I don't and have to make the little space I do have work for me.
Mine is just a 6 space, wood look storage rack you put together yourself only I used carpenter glue when assembling for a little extra strength.
Tins are only organized in stacks by brand. Top left is .20 cal, top right is .25 cal, middle 2 are .22 cal and the bottom 2 are .177 cal.
Works for me and the limited space I have.
Mine is just a 6 space, wood look storage rack you put together yourself only I used carpenter glue when assembling for a little extra strength.
Tins are only organized in stacks by brand. Top left is .20 cal, top right is .25 cal, middle 2 are .22 cal and the bottom 2 are .177 cal.
Works for me and the limited space I have.
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I use the KISS method , i have a small bin that i keep all tins of test pellets in , every thing else is on a shelve according to Cal. Easy only two Calibers .177 and .25 and an unopened case of .177 same lot as the shelve on the floor .
OOPS forgot 1 case of Tenex .177 wadcutter for the Morini 162E in the safe.
OOPS forgot 1 case of Tenex .177 wadcutter for the Morini 162E in the safe.
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Between how @bdzjlz does it, and how @Rawroots just posted is the way that I would like to go since you can so easily see your inventory. I too am plagued with a small amount of space like @SteveP-52 mentioned, so I am thinking of putting it on hinges and having it open like a book. Not sure how practical this is, so I'll probably want to model it in CAD to see if it looks stupid before I build it.
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Novel idea. Be one very big book depending on how many "pages" you want. How tall, number of pages, weight of building material, weight of the number of tins you want on each page, overall weight of the whole thing and can your floor support it...probly a few I'm missing but you get half an idea anyway...lolBetween how @bdzjlz does it, and how @Rawroots just posted is the way that I would like to go since you can so easily see your inventory. I too am plagued with a small amount of space like @SteveP-52 mentioned, so I am thinking of putting it on hinges and having it open like a book. Not sure how practical this is, so I'll probably want to model it in CAD to see if it looks stupid before I build it.
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I’ve been weighing pellets and slugs. Been thinking about how to conveniently store the weighed groups. At the moment I’m using 1”x2” (2 mil) plastic ziplock bags I got off Amazon. I’m writing the brand, style, weight, and diameter on the baggie with a permanent marker. It’s working at the moment. I have some Restasis (dry eye medicine) plastic boxes I am storing the filled baggies in. Those can be lined up on a shelf and written on as well. I’m a bit OCD on eliminating variables from flyers as I relearn airgun shooting. The little bags let me separate out the small groups of ammo out of the weight distribution, without wasting large baggies.
Dow
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I have an orange home depot bucket, and a dedicated dolly that it rests on. When I receive new pellets, I carefully open the tin and dump the pellets into the bucket. When I go to the range and am testing a gun, I make sure to shoot enough pellets to test all types in the bucket at 95% confidence levels. I base this sample size on the weight of the bucket, measured prior to leaving for my range trip.
If a pellet is the incorrect caliber for the gun I'm using, it goes into the identical, secondary dolly/bucket that I bring for this purpose.
This method adds excitement and variety to every range trip.
No pellets were harmed in the writing of this post.
If a pellet is the incorrect caliber for the gun I'm using, it goes into the identical, secondary dolly/bucket that I bring for this purpose.
This method adds excitement and variety to every range trip.
No pellets were harmed in the writing of this post.
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Man, @Larcat , your words have resonated with me, and I am not sure how. I have been thinking about it since your post, and I have so many questions.
I am very much OCD like @dow4hurst mentioned he is, and I can relate to separating things in little baggies. When you say that you are dumping the whole tin in a 5-gal bucket, my mind is blown! Let me start my barrage of questions, and I am really anxious to hear your response:
- Do you separate Diabolo, Pointed, Hollow, etc?
- If you have a bucket of just Diabolo, for example, at the same weight, how do you know what you are shooting?
- Do you keep pictures of what the inside of the skirt looks like?
- If you have a bucket of just Diabolo, for example, at the same weight, how do you know what you are shooting?
- Do you keep like weights in the same bucket so you can use a springer with this bucket, or a PCP with that one?
- How do you know that you are sampling the pellets that you first put in?
- Are you periodically spinning the bucket on the side?
- How many pellets are you willing to shoot to make sure that you shot one particular pellet in the bunch?
- How do you record which ones did the best, like if you were going to compete?
- I recently bought a bunch of Tracker Exploding pellets, so would you put an out-liar like that in there too...and possibly freak out someone on the range if they didn't know it was coming?
- I'm sure that I can geek out on a bunch more questions, but I don't want to bore the group with details when what I have asked gets to the heart.
- The pellet
- Wind,
- The rifling
- A cheap/deformed pellet
- Alloy type
- Redesign shape bordering on slugs
- A squirrel zigging when you wanted it to zag
- I'm assuming that you don't hunt from the bucket
- Etc., etc., etc.
I am fascinated by the differences in different shooters and why they do what they do. What you have explained about your technique is so much different than anything I would even conceive of myself, so I would love to understand how your technique gives you fulfillment in this already extremely variable hobby. Thanks for the insight!
Straight shooting...no matter what is in the breech...
Jonathan
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