Clip Trick — Hold Open your Ammo Boxes with Wire Clip
Here’s a handy invention by Forum member RayJay from Georgia. It’s a simple wire clip that will hold the lid of your plastic ammo box fully open during use. RayJay explains: “Everybody probably uses the cheap plastic cartridge cases. The only problem I have with them is the lid is always in the way and sometimes when trying to open the lid farther the cartridge box tips and you can dump out the cases. I did some cogitating and came up with these .061″ music wire clips. They work great and the unexpected benefit is that the cases are more stable while sitting at the bench.”
RayJay adds: “The round wire is ideal because it still allows a cartridge to fit in the hole where the clip is placed. Now all I need to do is make another 15 or 20 so I can have one in every case I own.”
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Presumably sections of wire coat hangers would work as well. Semi-totally free.
This is a nice idea for the older boxes that most of us have. New buys for me are all the MTD hinged boxes.
I cut a couple inches from the bore spindle of my empty chamber flag and when prep time begins simply place the spindle end into an empty cartridge hole in my Midway brand ammo box, turning the flag portion to “lock” into the lid.
No wire clip to lose, and it keeps the empty chamber flag from picking up any dirt.
I tried it with the older MTM case guards and it didn’t work. The lid isn’t deep enough, and it just slides the wire up. I drilled a hold through the lid, and then it would stay down. This was on the RS 50 size case for 223.