I've been doing a clean out of my gun room and right now I've got a big garbage bag full of empty Alliant and Hodgdon plastic containers (1 lb size). Does anyone have a good suggestion as to what they could be used for before I put them all into recycling?
Use for empty powder containers?
- Thread starter Chuck
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I use them to keep certain lots of brass together; label the cans "cleaned"; " to be cleaned"; "to be trimmed", etc.
Larger plastic canisters with handles you can cut out part of the top and side (leave handle on) for chucking retrieved brass into at the range.
Also I have some media that I only use for polishing loaded rounds with to remove any sizing residue. I keep it separate in used powder canisters.
Larger plastic canisters with handles you can cut out part of the top and side (leave handle on) for chucking retrieved brass into at the range.
Also I have some media that I only use for polishing loaded rounds with to remove any sizing residue. I keep it separate in used powder canisters.
Higginson.
Chuck - no offence, truly, but this is a pretty hilarious comment on the typical Canadian shooter (myself emphatically included).
We'll drop $3K on a new popgun without hesitation. We'll drive across two provinces to buy a new bit of gear because it's a allegedly bit hotter and shinier. We'll pay muchos pesos to stockpile crap that we will never use in a hundred years of shooting, but then we'll not only accumulate an entire garbage bag full of empty powder containers (think how long that takes!), but we'll also go online to ask a bunch of perfect strangers what option there is to just throwing them out.
We really are nutz!
We'll drop $3K on a new popgun without hesitation. We'll drive across two provinces to buy a new bit of gear because it's a allegedly bit hotter and shinier. We'll pay muchos pesos to stockpile crap that we will never use in a hundred years of shooting, but then we'll not only accumulate an entire garbage bag full of empty powder containers (think how long that takes!), but we'll also go online to ask a bunch of perfect strangers what option there is to just throwing them out.
We really are nutz!
Pickles: I like the way you think so when you have a neighbour's dog that keeps barking, throw a bullion cube over the fence when it is raining. The cube melts into the ground, and the dog starts digging holes to get to the meat. Greater success in the Lower Rainland but eventually the dog will go . . .
bigdaddyeo
Regular
- Location
- Canning, NS
I use any container I can get my hands on to tumble lube cast bullets.
This is a great idea... I think I might use the 4 or 5 I still have kicking around to start "spray-n-toss" lubing my rifle brass. I use open-top bins right now, the kind you'd see in a molded plastic bin "parts rack" like they sell at Princess Auto... which, incidentally, is where I got my "parts rack." Coincidence? I think not!
But using a powder container or three would allow me to REALLY toss 'em around... would make for better coverage, I think.
-M
Chuck - no offence, truly, but this is a pretty hilarious comment on the typical Canadian shooter (myself emphatically included).
We'll drop $3K on a new popgun without hesitation. We'll drive across two provinces to buy a new bit of gear because it's a allegedly bit hotter and shinier. We'll pay muchos pesos to stockpile crap that we will never use in a hundred years of shooting, but then we'll not only accumulate an entire garbage bag full of empty powder containers (think how long that takes!), but we'll also go online to ask a bunch of perfect strangers what option there is to just throwing them out.
We really are nutz!
Absolutely no offence taken. It does seem kind of silly that the amount of powder to fill a bag with containers likely represents about $1000 worth of powder and I'm online asking about their alternate uses.
However, they seem like really good quality containers that I'd like to put to another good use instead of throwing them out. The good thing is that I'm getting some ideas and I also know what to do about the neighbours barking dog.
I use them to pour Higginsons cardboard boxes of powder into. But this last order, Higginsons sent regular canisters of 1lb and a jug of 4lb!
They are good for nails and screws etc.
Higginsons sent me 6, 8 pounders of H1000 on my last order.
Although theoretically I don't care if powder comes in easily stackable boxes, I must care a little because it was sure nice to see those jugs.
Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
make piggy banks out them? a one pound jar of Hodgdon powder will hold between 200 and 500 dollars in loose change....
At the lake where I have a cabin, there were two side by side that were one owned by an older fellow with a yappy Labrador dog, and the other by his nephew. The nephew used to toss a little pebble into the uncle's yard and get the dog barking and the uncle all worked up at the dog. The uncle's own brother was at the nephew's one afternoon and suggested tossing a flash-bang grenade over the fence!
I love the bullion idea! I used to scoop the neighbor's dog crap up in a shovel and fling it back on to his lawn, trying particularly to have it land on their main path to the beach.
At the lake where I have a cabin, there were two side by side that were one owned by an older fellow with a yappy Labrador dog, and the other by his nephew. The nephew used to toss a little pebble into the uncle's yard and get the dog barking and the uncle all worked up at the dog. The uncle's own brother was at the nephew's one afternoon and suggested tossing a flash-bang grenade over the fence!
I love the bullion idea! I used to scoop the neighbor's dog crap up in a shovel and fling it back on to his lawn, trying particularly to have it land on their main path to the beach.
Try pouring gravy on the crap before you throw it back.
