OT- Ammo box

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OT- Ammo box

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I was counting my surplus ammo today and noticed how well they stacked in their little paper boxes. I kinda liked these boxes when I first got some and I kept a few for later storage uses. At the moment I have a few that are good and some that aren't as good. I thought, "why don't I just make some?" and then,"why can't I make some for other cartidges?".

Here's the box of about which I speaketh...

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You can see how much room you save over any kind of plastic box by using the thick paper ones...

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A little peek inside at the magic at work.

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The disection. It is made of the 3 parts: the box, the sqiggle divider and the middle retainer strip.

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Points of interest: Rim diameter, head diameter and OAL. Doesn't matter if it's a bottle neck or a strait-wall case, they all slide in the same.

The box and the middle retainer strip could be fashioned out with a straight edge cutter and a half-round pounch. The squiggly divider would need a jig with wood/metal rods of the same size as the case head to form it.

Obviously this is something that would take a bit of time and patience to do and may not be for the person with out one and/or the other, but, it would yield more to the person who likes to be "crafty" or someone who has odd sized stuff that they would like to keep very neatly. Remember, all the work is done at the begining gathering demensions and laying out stencils and then the cutting is the easy part.

In theory one could mass produce odd sized boxes for whatever caliber they could think of for very cheap.
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7.62 x 54R? :D
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Ysabel Kid wrote:7.62 x 54R? :D
Lucky guess. :roll:
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Andrew wrote:
Ysabel Kid wrote:7.62 x 54R? :D
Lucky guess. :roll:
Not really - if you have a firearm that shoots this round! It has a pretty distinctive base! :wink:

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Ysabel Kid wrote: Mosin-Nagant?
Dragunuv....oh wait, no, yeah it's an M44. 8) :lol:
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Yeah... it's a old, slow-firing bolt... :wink:
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Neat idea keep us posted :D !
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