Ammo Storage

[Phauxtoe]

so how do you guys keep it safe and secure?

is it locked up?
store it in metal or wood?

Boxed?
Bagged?
Ammo cans?

 

[spat]

Ammo cans, with a little silica gel for long term storage. Seems like they're hard to beat.

short term, it sits on a shelf

 

[togmaster]

I really don't secure it. I do have a few boxes in the safe but most is on the loading bench and in various closets.

 

[dsdmmat]

Your house is locked when you leave isn't it?

 

[togmaster]

Your house is locked when you leave isn't it?

Yup. With 2 viscous ( not really) guard dogs.

 

[GOPerfect]

I have an old floor safe that I keep a lot of ammo in. No idea what the combination is so it stays unlocked. I thought it would have been big enough to hole my ammo, but then I became an ammo hording slut. The safe is not even close to being large enough. I started picking up plastic ammo cans at Harbor Freight, http://www.harborfreight.com/ammo-box-61451.html, there is a Super Coupon for this can for four bucks. I just bought 16 more. I store most of my ammo in these cans. I have them stacked up in my gun room. Got about 80 filled as of now.

 

[Phauxtoe]

i was thinking of fire, theft, or water.

 

[GOPerfect]

I was concerned about the water, that is why I went with the plastic cans and not metal. Theft doesn't cross my mind as much.

 

[Phauxtoe]

lots of guys keep their gun world in the Basement and that is the first place to flood.
even if you live on the side of a hill.

 

[dsdmmat]

I have a few ammo cans but, most of my stuff is in ammo boxes (plastic 50. And 100 round flip top style). It is hard to make off with a lot of those but easy to make off with a few ammo cans.

 

[GUNSICK]

I have an old floor safe that I keep a lot of ammo in. No idea what the combination is so it stays unlocked. I thought it would have been big enough to hole my ammo, but then I became an ammo hording slut. The safe is not even close to being large enough. I started picking up plastic ammo cans at Harbor Freight, http://www.harborfreight.com/ammo-box-61451.html, there is a Super Coupon for this can for four bucks. I just bought 16 more. I store most of my ammo in these cans. I have them stacked up in my gun room. Got about 80 filled as of now.

I tap out, I thought I had issues. You win!

 

[dsdmmat]

1 gallon paint cans work well too and they don't look like ammo cans.

 

[GOPerfect]

I tap out, I thought I had issues. You win!

This ammo buying is becoming an addiction. I went to Gander today to buy some feed corn, I left the store with two bags of corn and 500 more rounds of 9mm.

 

[Criticalt]

Right now its just stacked on shelves in my bedroom closet. I never thought I would need a designated area but recently my "collection" of ammo has grown immensely.

 

[NYGuns]

I use ammo cans with silica packets to store my ammo.

 

[dwa12479]

A guy I work with is a big gym rat that goes through Syntha 6 protein cans like crazy. I use all his empty's for about everyting. I have a basically endless supply of storage containers, I just wash them out and label them with their contents. A single jug can take about 1,500 round of 9mm.

 

[Criticalt]

A guy I work with is a big gym rat that goes through Syntha 6 protein cans like crazy. I use all his empty's for about everyting. I have a basically endless supply of storage containers, I just wash them out and label them with their contents. A single jug can take about 1,500 round of 9mm.

I go through half gallons of ice cream like crazy, maybe I could use those.

 

[livingston]

 

[Toecutter]

As others I keep.my ammo in military surprised ammo cans with silica packs in it , keep it in a closet .I use handgun ammo alot more then rifle it tends to be on a shelf in a safe and gets shot and rotated out.

 

[Marine Cpl]

1 gallon paint cans work well too and they don't look like ammo cans.

Great idea man!

 

[togmaster]

A guy I work with is a big gym rat that goes through Syntha 6 protein cans like crazy. I use all his empty's for about everyting. I have a basically endless supply of storage containers, I just wash them out and label them with their contents. A single jug can take about 1,500 round of 9mm.

I store my brass in plastic pretzel and Cheetos containers similar to those. Don't judge.

 

[Magnus]

and 500 more rounds of 9mm.

You need to fully commit to the addiction, if you left the feed you could have gotten way more ammo.

 

[prambo]

I store my mine in ammo cans with good seals. Throw in activated silica gel (buy in bulk, activate, makes small bags in knotted nylon stockings), stick 2 catalytic toe warmers on the underside of the lid and shut.

No moisture no oxygen = no corrosion. The toe (or foot) warmers are made to work in a low oxygen environment, so scavenge a lot of oxygen. All the cans sealed this way have had to be opened with a ball peen due to the resulting vacuum seal.

 

[Podmonkey]

I keep it in the factory packaging, stores in the gun closet. I rotate through my supply so I don't worry about humidity at all.

 

[Cooolone]

Some in ammo cans, otherwise in the cases they arrived in, open to remove a box and replace with silica packet... Not worried about moisture much as it shouldn't sit around that long. Lol ; )

 

[Doc8404]

This ammo buying is becoming an addiction. I went to Gander today to buy some feed corn, I left the store with two bags of corn and 500 more rounds of 9mm.

I'm like that with motor oil

 

[Greywolf224]

Just picked up 4 50. fat boy ammo cans on EBAY . $75 includes shipping. He adjusts his shipping prices if you buy more. Cheapest I could find..
AMMO CANS

 

[Adkstalker]

ammo cans and silica packets. Stored on metal shelving in basement. No issues