Containers

The garage and the bag

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The garage rack Which this shelf serves well The range bag Bow wax is the one that travels Spare nocks travel too Temperature is the bag variable And nothing here is weather sealed Keep the two kits separate Which is an argument for a deliberate bag kit The honest split References

Nothing on this shelf is designed for a range bag.

The garage rack

Twenty identical jars in a tray, on a bench, opened with both hands under a light. Clear, lidded, numbered, and never moved.

Which this shelf serves well

101 PET single wall jars and 33 PP single wall jars, 96 of the whole shelf clear. For a rack that is a genuinely good offering.

The range bag

Two or three containers that get dropped, rained on, sat on and opened with cold hands at a shooting line. A different object entirely.

Bow wax is the one that travels

Which is why the 9 tins matter and why glass does not belong. A tin survives a bag and a jar of glass is a hazard in one.

Spare nocks travel too

A broken nock ends a session otherwise. A few in a small tough container is standard practice and the smallest jars here will do it.

Temperature is the bag variable

A car in summer softens wax and a winter range makes plastic nocks brittle. 87 PP containers tolerate the warm end better than PET.

And nothing here is weather sealed

A closure that keeps rain out of a bag is not a specification this catalog records. For the bag, buy purpose-made.

Keep the two kits separate

A bag that is raided from the rack ends up with the rack missing things, and parts coming back from a bag are the ones that end up in the wrong jar.

Which is an argument for a deliberate bag kit

Stocked once, checked after each session, and never the same containers as the rack. It costs a few jars and it protects the sorting.

The honest split

The garage is ours. The bag is a sporting goods purchase, and saying so is more useful than suggesting a jar that will crack in a quiver.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The archery shelf is 647 rows: 277 containers and 370 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 118; 30 containers at 15 mL or under, 45 at 30 or under, 86 at 60 or under, 142 at 120 or under. 117 PET, 87 PP, 64 glass, 9 steel. 227 jars, 27 bottles, 12 tubs and pails, 9 tins, 2 tubes. 96 clear, 51 white, 33 amber, 28 natural, 27 black. Closures: 297 continuous thread, 27 dome lids, 18 lug and twist, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 round tubs, 5 phenolic, 5 specialty. Necks: 56 at 89-400, 56 at 70-400, 36 at 58-400, 16 at 53-400.

The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. Four of the five leaves are small dry parts and the shelf is 227 jars against 27 bottles, which is the closest archetype-to-shelf match in this library.

Written from 26 U.S.C. 4161(b) and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. No tax rates, percentages or thresholds appear here: they are in the statute and its regulations, they change, and a container catalog quoting them would be wrong within a year. Whether assembling arrows makes somebody a manufacturer for excise purposes is a determination for a tax adviser. Hunting rules, broadhead requirements and draw weight minimums are state wildlife agency matters and are not addressed.