How do you transport/store .58 minié balls?

[Widows Son]

Hello everyone.
I use a 44/45 caliber plastic pistol ammunition case with a snap lid to take my Whitworth projectiles to the range. However I can’t seem to find one of suitable size to hold minié balls. I want to develop a load with loose powder and ball before I make paper cartridges.

If anyone takes lubed .58 minié balls to the range, what do you use to keep them clean and organised? Maybe a 20 gauge shotshell box?

 

[Juice Jaws]

Hello everyone.
I use a 44/45 caliber plastic pistol ammunition case with a snap lid to take my Whitworth projectiles to the range. However I can’t seem to find one of suitable size to hold minié balls. I want to develop a load with loose powder and ball before I make paper cartridges.

If anyone takes lubed .58 minié balls to the range, what do you use to keep them clean and organised? Maybe a 20 gauge shotshell box?

I use a cigar box

 

[wiscoaster]

If anyone takes lubed .58 minié balls to the range, what do you use to keep them clean and organised?

I line them up nose to tail five in a row and wrap them in rolled-up wax paper, twisted on the ends. The five-ball rolls can then be put in any kind of container without messing it up or scraping the lube off the balls. A single Minie ball can be easily ripped off one end of the tube for use.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

I get these big 5" round tins, larger bottoms with a thin cover, even that like the mink oil from Track is sold in. They're over an inch tall and hold a good amount of sized/lubed Mines. I also 'bake' the tins in a fire - to blacken them and remove any writing or brand details on them and clean/oil - before use.

 

[Keyhole]

Small (snack-size) Tupperware bowl

 

[APG]

After trying many different containers I found that a box from Hornady .44cal round balls works great. As you can see it will hold 36 of the 500 grain minieballs. I place a little cardboard piece to take up the slack. It also hold 18 of the paper cartridges that I sometimes make. The boxes seen here have been used for over 2 years. They have absorbed enough of my homemade lube to be quite waterproof.

 

[Widows Son]

I line them up nose to tail five in a row and wrap them in rolled-up wax paper, twisted on the ends. The five-ball rolls can then be put in any kind of container without messing it up or scraping the lube off the balls. A single Minie ball can be easily ripped off one end of the tube for use.

That’s clever!

 

[akroguy]

That’s clever!

And, aligned as such in a mating orientation, they will reproduce overnight. Free mini-minies!

 

[64Springer]

In a plastic one quart Chinese hot and sour soup container.

 

[Sun City]

In this little tin with a shotgun shell to show size. Carry 8-10 patches and same amount RB in whatever caliber.

Untitled by Sharps Man, on Flickr

 

[User_Dan]

 

[bpd303]

Altoids tins work for me.

 

[ZUG]

I use a cigar box

Same here - works just fine ---