whughett
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Sir You are an organized individual.Cleaned brass in a caliber designated ammo can.
Reloads go in another ammo can.
Sir You are an organized individual.Cleaned brass in a caliber designated ammo can.
Reloads go in another ammo can.
Loose in ammo cans for most of my stuff
With all the fine folks that have lots of ammo. How do you store yours? Mine are stored in 50 cal ammo cans in there original boxes with dates of purchase noted. I have them stored inside my home in a spare bedroom I use as my gun room. Temperature controlled home and out of the sunlight. Ammo as we know is a high priced and very hard to find item today (at a fair price).
I have been doing this for 35 years and never had an issue. Still have some 20 yr old ammo that when shot still goes bang. 70 % are my reloads and 30% factory ammo. 40 cans are loaded to the rim and all rubber seals are inspected and treated yearly.
I just weighed a standard .50 cal can filled with 9mm 115 gr rounds... 65 pounds! Anything more and it becomes almost unmovable.
Ya, filling up the “fat .50” or other oversized cans is OK if they’re somewhere they won’t be moved. If you have to move one they’re just about too much to handle.I keep most of my specialty ammos in 50rd plastic boxes, generic rifle ammos are in 30 or 50cal cans. I also use cardboard boxes I get from work to store some... 80rd boxes of M1 ammo (that is... 10 clips worth...) 250rd boxes of 9mm blasting ammos, etc, where it wouldn't make sense to put it in plastic boxes.
I try to keep my ammo cans light enough where they don't give me a hernia when I try to move them... for that reason I like 30cal cans a little better for bulk ammo like that.
I've got a 1200rd Belgian ammo can from some 7.62mm surplus I bought some years ago... when it's loaded up it almost takes 2 people to move it... thank goodness it has handles on both sides.