storing shot

[hoochiepapa]

Since I'm new to this fowling business, I was wondering how you guys (and ladies) store your shot? I just got back from SW in Loveland, and I'm getting more and more bags of shot, I just open a small corner to fill my shot pouch, and I've got them leaning all over my shop to keep them from spilling. :idunno:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Set on shelf.

 

[hoochiepapa]

Yeah, yeah, but I would like to see some options with pour spouts. I've thought about the dog food canisters you see around, but they're plenty big.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Yeah, yeah, but I would like to see some options with pour spouts. I've thought about the dog food canisters you see around, but they're plenty big.

Truth is, I dumped mine into plastic coffee cans.

 

[Supercracker]

I got little paint tins from Lowes.

 

[necchi]

I've got them leaning all over my shop to keep them from spilling. :idunno:

That's all I do,
But keep'm on the floor, not the bench. :shocked2:

 

[jdw276]

water bottles. easy to store and the cap screws on to keep from spilling.

Little ole dansani. One in the trunk with the other shooting supplies of each shot size. empty throw away and get another one out. Easy pour spout as well to refill the shot pouch.

 

[hoochiepapa]

Thanks for the responses, I'm getting ideas.....

 

[majg1234]

20 oz soda bottles for me or old Normal Saline 1 liter irrigation bottles from the clinic/hospital. they are a bit heavy though when full.The coke bottles work well because of the shape and they are thicker than water bottles.I also have an assortment of tin paint thinner cans I use from time to time

 

[Stumpkiller]

In the bag until opened, and then I put the shot in quart pickle jars with a piece of masking tape with the shot size marked on it.

It's easy to dip out of the jars to refill my shot pouches.

 

[buford87]

I use a half-gallon plastic milk jug. It will hold most of a bag of shot and I take a sharpie marker and mark what size shot it is on the side..............watch yer top knot........

 

[Bill Hall]

I keep the bulk of it in the bags, with just the corner cut, and a few pounds in the bigger coffee cans. When I load some into a shot pouch, I hold the pouch inside the can and just grab a handful of shot, which I kinda pour into the pouch spout. Only about half the shot goes in the pouch at a time, but the rest falls back into the can. Two or three pours will fill my pouch. Bill

 

[Rifleman1776]

In the bag until opened, and then I put the shot in quart pickle jars with a piece of masking tape with the shot size marked on it.

It's easy to dip out of the jars to refill my shot pouches.

Since I suffered a serious injury to my left hand in January just closing a glass jar, I am now pretty much anti-glass. Now, I use only plastic. Just like the real Mountain Men did.

 

[BrownBear]

...and I've got them leaning all over my shop to keep them from spilling.

I'm going to date the heck out of myself here, but I'll do it anyway. Back about the time Adam got a gleam in his eye, folks used to use wire rather than twine in their hay bailers. I'm such a fossil still I have rolls of the stuff laying around. Pinch that open corner of the shot bag closed, then take half a dozen tight turns of bailing wire around it. You can drop the bag on the floor and it still won't spill.

If you can't find bailing wire, check the hardware store for similar ductile steel wire. It's dandy.

 

[Semisane]

I'm going to date myself too BrownBear. Back when I was 17 years old shag carpet was the "in thing".

I had picked up a 25 lb. bag of #8 shot at a gun show for my 14 gage Belgium made double barrel caplock. Sitting on the edge of my bed I opened the bag entirely across the top to fill a shot pouch. I set the open bag next to me on the bed and it promptly fell over, spilling its contents onto the long fiber ugly yellow shag carpet. Mom was "slightly irritated". Shot kept turning up for years. When that carpet was finally removed it was cut in pieces and carried out of the house. After that #8 shot started turning up all over the house.

 

[rafterob]

Take Stumpkiller's idea. Use home canning lids and find a plastic funnel that fits neatly within the screw on band. Use the band to attach the funnel to the top of the jar when you want to dispense it.

 

[hoochiepapa]

That's a great idea, BB, I just happen to have a roll I keep in the truck, and whack me off a few yards to put in my day pack. I can't count the number of times I've gotten too tired packing out and have hung meat on a fence or tree.

 

[hoochiepapa]

This is probably the one I'll adopt, I have an Ace Hardware within spitting distance.

 

[Many Klatch]

Ghettogun, that is a good idea. Now I have to find a funnel and a ball jar that will fit together.

Many Klatch

 

I clean out empty milk jugs and put it into those. It's easy to pour into shot flasks, horns etc and won't spill if they are bumped.
Mark