Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee

[oldmax]

I reload for 2 leverguns, So I think I'm on topic

Maxwell House Coffee has improved my life considerably !!!!!!

I use to drink Folgers coffee,
But having discovered the Square Plastic Coffee Containers that Maxwell House ships in....
I am now a " Maxwell House " drinker........

Square is better for storing brass, &
lay the containers on there side ; remove cases, run through the press, into next container....
Really speeds up the single stage reloading process....

I am accumulating quite a stock of empties, can't get enough.
Just keep buying more coffee, drinking more coffee, up late
reloading more bullets, shooting more .....
( and shaking more, Hmmm, maybe a correlation here )

( Wife thinks I'm Nuts, Keep asking here if we need more Coffee )

Maxwell House, Good to the last Reload!

[RIHMFIRE]

me too!

[O.S.O.K.]

I use the Folgers round plastic jugs myself but when I found walmart had their plastic pencil boxes on clearance for 50 cents a peice, I bought a large number and put all of my brass into them - my brass stash is now much more organized and I can find what I'm looking for.

[alnitak]

I just use zip-lock baggies with brass sorted by headstamp (and caliber, of course). Easy to throw them in a box, they don't roll away, and will lay on the side opened.

[Griff]

And here I am, getting fat & fatter 'cause I store mine in ice cream empties!!!

[marlinman93]

Ditto the Folgers round plastic tubs!

[kaschi]

The wife and I love Columbian coffee. Years ago we were drinking the Maxwell House brand and felt they changed the roasting procedure so we went to Folgers and feel they have done the same. Now we drink Eight o' Clock Columbian and love it. Get the whole bean variety and grind it until it's pulverized. What a taste any time of day!

[jeepnik]

The wife got me a Keurig maker last year. Single cup maker, uses little plastic premeasured cups that look like giant size creamer cups you see in resturants. There must be danred near 100 different coffees and teas available. It's fast too, heats from stone cold to brew in about 3 minutes, and reheat time between cups is less than a minute. Kinda neat for entertaining as everyone can get what they want. Almost a buck a cup, but it's better and cheaper than starbucks or what have you. The little cups aren't useful for anything, but what the heck, the coffee is good.

[JohndeFresno]

And here I am, getting fat & fatter 'cause I store mine in ice cream empties!!!

((Guffawing))

[El Chivo]

don't mean to introduce a radical concept, but what about using the ammo boxes they came in originally?

[AmBraCol]

don't mean to introduce a radical concept, but what about using the ammo boxes they came in originally?

When you buy your brass by the bag instead of in factory ammo boxes there ARE no boxes to put them in and the bags aren't as handy for storing either. Me? Empty brass gets put in some kind of coffee can or similar until processes (sized and cleaned) then it goes in another one until it's loaded. After loaded it gets put in MTM or Berry's ammo boxes until it gets shot - then the cycle begins again. Now, that's for up in the US. Down here? Empties get put back in their factory box and stored in an icecream box (heavy cardboard, it had a heavy plastic bag inside to hold the original contents) hoping that someday I'll be able to get components and reload them.

[Guncase]

How 'bout cashews, peanut butter, chocolate almond clusters, or animal crackers?

[AmBraCol]

Now, on a different note - but related to the topic of coffee drinking - check out "Don Pablo" brand coffee if you have a Costco near you. We know one of the guys who works for the company. They don't sell it down here (Colombia actually gets mostly the dregs since they export most of the high quality stuff) but it's available through Costco and perhaps eventually via Sam's Club (haven't heard if they got the contract or not). Anyway, it's good stuff - at least the sample bag he gave us was. You won't get a nifty cartridge box out of it but you will get some pretty decent coffee.

[O.S.O.K.]

don't mean to introduce a radical concept, but what about using the ammo boxes they came in originally?

You're not a brass shagger are you?

[Idiot]

The Maxwell House can tip is a good one, so are the cashew bottles, but they only work if you have a weak collection of brass.

I find that the "Homer Buckets" from Home Depot work best for storing and separating brass. They are five gallon buckets that can at least store what I'd call the beginnings of a brass collection. And the good thing about them is, because they are hard plastic, you can stack them from floor to ceiling. I find that I can stack the brass for one cartridge in one column (about six high with six different brands of brass or loadings) and then start another column for another cartridge. You can usually get a dozen columns along one side of the garage wall if you have brass for multiple cartridges.

So if your wrists are a bit limp and your loafers a tad light, go with the coffee cans, but if you're a truly dedicated levergunner, go with the "Homer Buckets."

[El Chivo]

you can also drag off those shipping containers that come in from the Orient. Because we import so much and export so little, there are hundreds of them stacked up around the docks in LA.

There is a company making cheap pre-fab homes out of them, but there should be some left for dedicated levergunners. I think tree surgeons also take them to their sites for limb disposal.



Each one is the size of a semi trailer and holds about 80,000,000 pieces of 38 special brass.

Yes, they are stackable.

[Idiot]

you can also drag off those shipping containers that come in from the Orient. Because we import so much and export so little, there are hundreds of them stacked up around the docks in LA.

There is a company making cheap pre-fab homes out of them, but there should be some left for dedicated levergunners. I think tree surgeons also take them to their sites for limb disposal.

Each one is the size of a semi trailer and holds about 80,000,000 pieces of 38 special brass.

Yes, they are stackable.

[Noah Zark]

( Wife thinks I'm Nuts, Keep asking here if we need more Coffee )

Probably thinks you're Chock Full o' Nuts . . .



Noah

[Hobie]

you can also drag off those shipping containers that come in from the Orient. Because we import so much and export so little, there are hundreds of them stacked up around the docks in LA.

There is a company making cheap pre-fab homes out of them, but there should be some left for dedicated levergunners. I think tree surgeons also take them to their sites for limb disposal.



Each one is the size of a semi trailer and holds about 80,000,000 pieces of 38 special brass.

Yes, they are stackable.

How much are one of those CONEXs now? I just need to get a good forklift (I know where there's an operator... ) to move them when needed.

[JustaJeepGuy]

Just don't give that forklift driver a copy of Gun Digest, right?

[Buffboy]

I have most of my brass in beef jerky/stick containers I had a service station owner save for me. He sold a lot of jerky. After about a month, I stopped in and he said "they're in the broom closet". You remember the old cartoons? I didn't think it was really possible to get stuff in a closet like that. It is. He got a good chuckle over it.

[Griff]

John,
You thought I was kiddin'?


and there's about 5 more added since then!

Jeepnik,
One of my very best friends has one of those, and you're right... convenient, good tasting and cheaper than Starbucks (who has crummy coffee BTW - but then I WAS in the Navy!)

O.S.O.K.,
You say that like it might be some form of ridicule... careful now, I shag brass. One day in CA, about 10 guys came to the range with .30-30s and proceeded to shoot them for about ½ a day... as they packed up, I noticed they didn't make any effort to pick up their brass. I asked, "hey, you guys gonna keep all that brass?" They said no, AND proceeded to pick it ALL up and put it back in the Remington boxes they brought it in... about 25 boxes worth of pristine once-fired .30-30 brass! Ah, the sun shone that day!

[jeepnik]

Heck Navy coffee, some cream and sugar and your ready to go. Grew up on that stuff.

[JustaJeepGuy]

I once worked with a guy who asked me nearly every day for 3 months, "How could you have spent 5 years in the Navy and never learned to drink coffee?" I told him every time, "I can't get past the stench!"

I hated standing the engineroom messenger watch. Messenger watch had to make the coffee. The strange part is, the coffee-drinkers generally liked it when I made it.

[winchester1886]

El Chivo the U S A must be just like Australia, thanks to the politicians we elected to run our countries look after them and protect them, our number one export is empty shipping containers.

[AmBraCol]

I once worked with a guy who asked me nearly every day for 3 months, "How could you have spent 5 years in the Navy and never learned to drink coffee?" I told him every time, "I can't get past the stench!"

I hated standing the engineroom messenger watch. Messenger watch had to make the coffee. The strange part is, the coffee-drinkers generally liked it when I made it.

One of my uncles did the full 20 year stretch (or more, I don't recall) in the Navy, retiring as chief warrant officer as I recall. In all that time he never did learn to drink coffee. He's a tea drinker to this day. Me? I grew up on coffee. Was told "it'll stunt your growth!". Made it to a full 6' tall, wonder what I'd have measured up to if I'd never drunk the stuff...

[JustaJeepGuy]

Made it to a full 6' tall, wonder what I'd have measured up to if I'd never drunk the stuff...