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zorba
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Magazine storage?

Looking for an "effective" way to store all my pistol magazines - various sized, brands, lengths, calibers, etc. Either a wall-mount thing or a storage box with dividers. See all kinds of overpriced stuff - what's cheap and works? I'm pushing quantity 20 right now...
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Or something like http://www.midwayusa.com/product/2394322904/california-competition-works-8-pistol-magazine-storage-pouch-nylon?cm_vc=ProductFinding
Single stack mags could be doubled up in each pouch.
Dad 5-31-13
There are a few loaded mags stored near house guns and carry guns, too.
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Don't store them like that for long, moisture can build up in the fabric and could get rust.
If ya got the box for the gun put them there
This...
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
Unless they are more expensive or rare mags I don't worry about storage of unloaded ones other than clean and dry where I can find them pretty easy and the clear bins with labels work for me.
- George Orwell
Which bins? Are they divided? etc, etc.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
A sewer ????
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an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city
Perhaps, tailor ?
A tailor does not make dresses. Seamstress is the word you are looking for.
Dad 5-31-13
seamstress
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noun
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a woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing. :jester: :troll:
You beat me to it....:beer:
I am not sure what the maker is but they are clear undivided bins with snap on tops. I have some the size of shoe boxes for say pistol mags up to the larger ones that can hold 50 plus AR mags stacked neatly.
These are not the exact ones but they are close:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_336489-62860-7101HFT-10-111-44_1z0yly3__?productId=3341158&pl=1
http://www.lowes.com/pd_336491-62860-7103HFT-10-111-44_1z0yly3__?productId=3341162&pl=1
I use some others like them to store more things from work-in-projects to keep all the parts together to common supplies. BUT the saving grace for everything is my wife's P-Touch label maker she "lost" a couple years back. You can read the label as well as see what is in the bin.
- George Orwell
But I did just receive a SKIRT that is going to turn into a project - more than I really wanted, but I'm into it now for better or worse. Needs a new waistband - which I knew about gong in - but its also a bit too short. If fixing the waistband doesn't lengthen it enough, I'm going to have to add a flounce to the bottom - it'll be pretty and worth it and all that - but a fair amount of sewing machine time! Bright red crushed velvet is da bomb!
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Yea, I know. :silly: Its FB's fault, he's the one who derailed the thread! :rotflmao:
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
No dividers. By the time I buy yet another ammo can and dividers - I'm out $30 or more.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
:rotflmao:
All kidding aside, go down to your local Wally World and get yourself a medium point white marker and write on the mag, what gun it is for (wipe oil off first).
At that point also pick up a small plastic bin to store all "20" magazines, properly identified.
Simple and uses very little space for the extras not being stored in the gun intended.
“When guns are outlawed, only patriots will have guns.”
Cardboard cut to size...Geez...how ca anyone complicate a freakin GI ammo can.....
He wears skirts, just sayin'.....
These bags/pouches are also very easy to pack in a range bag.
Edited to add: this system also works well for revolver speed loaders
"Better is the enemy of Good"
................Now that's focus Bullsi1911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......That what you mentioned above, is what I use also!!!!..works good and last a long time!