Anyone ever vaccum seal guns?

[castile]

I purchased a standard Walmart sealameal. Bought some roll bags and sealed a few hand guns and long guns. Its been a year and they are still sealed and seem to be fine. I did coat them in rigs grease before sealing the and spraying them down with a mix of rigs and WD This has worked for me for years in open air so it should work in vacuum.

 

[hso]

The chemicals may breakdown the plastic so I'd seal an O2 and moisture absorber in there after a very light coating of anti corrosion product.

 

[stoky]

Tutonic Tupperware keeps bullets fresh, without the need for vacuum bag sealing.

 

[BSA1]

Seems easy enough question to answer. It is time to open a few bags and check the contents.

 

[stoky]

It would seem to make trips to the range somewhat nettlesome

 

[WVsig]

They make these specifically for that purpose.

http://www.amazon.com/ZCORR-Corrosion-Velcro-Shotgun-Rifle/dp/B00A2SMVAC

 

[gary0529]

Given the cost of Seal-A-Meal bags and rolls, I think ZCorr is a cheaper (or at least not an overwhelming difference) and is probably a bit stronger and is truly designed to keep rust off of guns

Every once in a while they go on sale for 5 or 6 bucks per bag.

Probably go with ZCorr over self sealer.

also, my experience with the home sealers is that they puncture pretty easily- had that problem when I tried to vacuum seal sharp tipped ammo. Once the vacuum pulled the bag over the tips they put micro punctures in the bag and over a week or two the vacuum was gone.

Gary

 

[FROGO207]

^^^^^^^ If you do that put a thin cardboard cover sheet over the pointed ammo before sealing. Also I wrap firearms in a silicone impregnated paper first to soften the sharp edges. Then I will double seal them. Has worked for storage for years so far.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

we used to seal pistols for months and sometimes years.

A lot of us when I was in the Army would have a sealed "survival" pistol and ammo just in case.

I and several others chose Beretta .22s and .25s.

We used the off the shelf seal-a-meal types and after getting decent weight bags were very happy with the results.

Ammo went in surgical tubing and the pistols got a decent though not heavy coat of motor oil. Whatever was being run in the motorpool at the time.

Now and again if boredom set in and once for good use we would pull one out and run it and never had a hiccup.

One of mine stayed sealed for several years before and then several years after retiring to a total of 13 or more years. Everything was hunky-dory.

As I noted, early on, the weight of the bags was an issue as we used too light weight of material and it didn't hold up well to rough handling and being ignored in LBE for extended periods of time.

One weight was so light that the British L1A1 canvas pouches I was using wore right through it.

On light weight - a fella can get away with over taping with duct tape but you have to be careful to not tear the bag while pulling the tape and be sure to leave tear-away tabs on the tape end.

Todd.