Ammunition storage location

[7.62X25mm]

"Slack" is the loose drape in a line, rope. The term "slacks," as in the pants you wear, derives from the idea that they drape loosely from the waist.

You can Google the term, or you could take the word of a retired prof. with degrees in English and linguistics.

Firemen worry about "cook offs" in ammo storage just because it's one more thing to think about in a fire. We're drilled at the volunteer fire dept. here repeatedly about "car fires" in this area because most vehicles have guns and ammo in them.

But we're more concerned about fuel storage in garages and barns.

 

[Envisaged]

Under the bed - on the wife's side.

 

[Rolex24]

I'm interested in why nobody keeps their ammo in the gun safe? I'm probably just ignorant to the common sense reason so please educate me. I've only had my safe for two years and I don't have the safe so full (yet!) that my ammo can't fit in it as well....am I doing something wrong?

 

[ServiceSoon]

I'm interested in why nobody keeps their ammo in the gun safe? I'm probably just ignorant to the common sense reason so please educate me. I've only had my safe for two years and I don't have the safe so full (yet!) that my ammo can't fit in it as well....am I doing something wrong?

I store my ammunition in my gun safe too. I guess we are both doing the same wrong, not buying enough guns!

I'm not worried about it. If I had reloading equipment and supplies that would be differnt.
All I have been hearing from significant other is about everyone being killed. It was her idea to post this question.
This all started when I was asked what I wanted for christmas, ammunition was on the list and the issue with what was in the basement came up.

Before I started storing my ammunition in my safe it was in the clothes closet and my wife asked me if the lead posed a health issue. GOtta love em

 

[karz10]

Sometimes I've heard people say they're 'getting some flak' about this or that, someone griping about something directed at them, and I've heard some people say getting some slack when they meant flak, that's what I took the OP to mean.

Maybe if the mrs would learn about ammunition she would cut him some slack, and wouldn't give him so much flak about his ammo being stored in the basement, since I agree that if there are no other threats of fire in the basement, and if it's more likely a fire would come from above, the basement is a logical place, but that's mainly for the preservation of the ammo, as opposed to fear of it, since as others have so thoroughly explained, unless it's in a chamber connected to a barrel, there shouldn't be anything to fear.

I don't think I'd keep chambered rounds, in guns facing up, that are stored in the basement however...

Karz

 

[red_cedar]

I've heard some people say getting some slack when they meant flak,

she would cut him some slack, and wouldn't give him so much flak

yea, thats it, Thanks guys.


LOL

 

[Highland Ranger]

I'm interested in why nobody keeps their ammo in the gun safe?

Doesn't fit.

 

[jbauch357]

I'm interested in why nobody keeps their ammo in the gun safe? I'm probably just ignorant to the common sense reason so please educate me. I've only had my safe for two years and I don't have the safe so full (yet!) that my ammo can't fit in it as well....am I doing something wrong?

how big of a safe is it, how many guns do you own, and how much ammo are you stockpiling?

the original intent for my safe was gun and ammo storage, now I barely have room for my guns and some practice ammo - no way in hell could I fit everything I have into the safe.

 

[senior]

ammo storage

Good thing ammo poses no problem when stored in the closet as i have about 3000 rds of different cal stored in a closet in their shipping boxes and in ammo cans.

 

[distra]

If your house is going to blow mine must be already on fire! Just kidding, I store mine in a wood lockable cabinet in the basement along with all my powder and primers. There is little danger of things going "boom" so long as the cabinet does not catch fire from the outside.

 

[CU74]

Ammo in a gun safe?? I, (and I suspect many others here) buy ammo by the case. I couldn't get just my handgun ammo to fit in a gun safe, and I have much more rifle ammo than handgun ammo. I'm currently maintaining eighteen different calibers.....

 

[Rolex24]

Ammo in a gun safe?? I, (and I suspect many others here) buy ammo by the case. I couldn't get just my handgun ammo to fit in a gun safe, and I have much more rifle ammo than handgun ammo.

OK, now that's logic I can completely wrap my head around. I went by the shop near my work at lunch yesterday, brick of 22(will fit in the safe), can of 5.56 that was on sale, won't fit if I don't take it out of the can. I got a safe bigger than I thought I'd ever need. Have enough room for two more long guns in the current configuration which allows for half to be shelves for family "stuff", optics and ammo......so I'd have to agree with you all, I need to buy more of everything

 

[JohnBT]

"Where do you guys keep your ammunition."

Ammo cans in the 2nd-floor hall closet. Ammo cans under the antique mirrored dresser in one bedroom. 3 ammo cans in a Kennedy metal gun cabinet in the trunk room/office/little bedroom over the front hall. 4 or 5 cardboard boxes (smaller than copy paper boxes) of assorted ammo I haven't put away yet. 2 large Rubbermaid bins and a big cardboard box of ammo under the old iron frame double bed - lots of space under the old bed, there're 3 hard rifle cases stacked under there too.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Oh yeah, and an old ($15 a brick) case of Wolf Match Target I've been using for a door stop between the back bedroom and the 2nd floor sun porch. I don't want the wind to slam it shut and break any of the 16 panes of wavy old glass.

The only ammo in my safe is in mags. There's just no room.

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

10,000 rounds weight something like 66 lbs. Not enough to concern yourself with no matter where you store it.

That seems about right for rimfire, but I've got single cases of .308 and .44 that come close to that by themselves. With large rifle cartriges, 10,000 rounds could weigh a couple hundred pounds.

 

[Rimmer]

This thread got me to thinking about the ammo I have in box's in different rooms around the house. Up until today I hadn't properly stored any of it after my move 2 years ago.

So, I started gathering it all into one place. OMG. I had no idea I had that much. I knew that I had about 15K of target grade 22. Turns out a bit more.
It's the 45 and 9mm that really turned me around. I have to quit going to gun shows and buying ammo just because I find a deal. This is just nuts.

I found 41 box's of 357. I sold that S&W about 10 years ago. :banghead:

Ya, to the OP. It ain't gonna go BOOM and explode the house. It would be a tad more dangerous if you had all that in powder stored in a keg though.