Containers

The shelf

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What is here By format Which fits the sorting leaves well By material Clear leads By size, with a caveat The bulky end is thin Glass for the solvent and nothing else And nothing here for two leaves How to shop it References

A good sorting shelf. Used for eleven of the thirteen leaves.

What is here

539 rows: 251 containers and 288 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 177, and nothing above half a litre.

By format

210 jars, 27 bottles, 12 tubs and pails and 2 tubes. The archetype asks for wide mouth and the shelf delivers it.

Which fits the sorting leaves well

Brass, bullets, gas checks, hulls, wads and patches are all handled by hand out of a wide opening. 101 PET single wall jars is the core of it.

By material

117 PET, 78 PP and 56 glass. The PP is the tolerant plastic for a decanted solvent and the glass is the certain one.

Clear leads

91 clear against 47 white and 32 amber. For a craft sorted by eye before it is sorted by label, that is the right distribution.

By size, with a caveat

17 containers at 15 mL or under, 60 at 60 or under, 116 at 120 or under. Brass and bullets are heavy, so the small end is more useful here than the part count suggests.

The bulky end is thin

12 tubs and pails for shotgun hulls and wads, which are the one bulky component in the craft. That is the honest count.

Glass for the solvent and nothing else

56 glass containers. Worth using for bore solvent and worth avoiding for heavy metal components, where a dropped jar is a broken one.

And nothing here for two leaves

Smokeless powder and primers. Both keep their factory packaging, and every jar on this shelf is the wrong object for them.

How to shop it

One small clear jar, many of them, numbered, with a liner. Glass for the solvent. Tubs for hulls. Nothing at all for powder or primers.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The reloading and shooting shelf is 539 rows: 251 containers and 288 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 177; 17 containers at 15 mL or under, 25 at 30 or under, 60 at 60 or under, 116 at 120 or under. 117 PET, 78 PP, 56 glass. 210 jars, 27 bottles, 12 tubs and pails, 2 tubes. 91 clear, 47 white, 32 amber, 26 black, 24 natural. Closures: 221 continuous thread, 22 dome lids, 18 lug and twist, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 round tubs, 5 phenolic, 4 specialty.

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. Eleven of the thirteen leaves are small dry parts and the shelf is 210 jars against 27 bottles, which fits. It describes the powder and primer leaves too, and should not.

The standing instruction from powder manufacturers and the propellant industry is to keep smokeless powder in its original container, with the original label, and not to decant it. The reason given is confinement: the factory container is built to give way rather than to hold, and a strong sealed container changes how the material behaves when it ignites. This property states that as the industry's stated reason. It is not a regulation, there is none to quote because the material is exempt, and we have not independently verified the mechanism.

Written from 27 CFR 555.11 and 555.141, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. No storage quantity limits for smokeless powder or primers appear here: those come from NFPA 495 and from state and local fire codes and they vary. The reason given for keeping powder in its original container is the industry's stated reason, not a regulation and not something this property has independently verified. Nothing here addresses who may manufacture ammunition for sale or how any of it may be transported.