How do you organize and store your Ammo???

[smullen]

Bored tonight and had a few minutes, so I thought I'd post a few messages...

So do you just toss it all in your Gun Safes, Totes, duffel bags, etc???

I keep most of mine (not that much by you all's standards, I'm sure) in my gun safe, but its getting kind of full and I'd like to put a few more Rifles in there in the next few years...

I was thinking about getting one of those Big heavy duty locking double door metal cabinets that are like 5' height, 4-5' Wide and 2-3' Deep that have like 5 shelves...

I could store all my cleaning stuff on one shelf and boxes of ammo and small stacks of mags on each of the remaining shelves....

I'd like to keep all my ammo and mags neat, organized, and as secure as possible and I can't really afford another big a$$ gun safe... Or don't want to...

So what do you all do???

 

[Anchorage]

well, my ammo is heavy but my furniture is cheap. I put the bulk boxes on the floor under furniture. smaller quanties I store in a "safe" the 50 dollars cheap one. I organize them by company and calibure

 

[jungleroy]

I have found that the sheetmetal Craftsman tool boxes work great for storage of cartridges.

 

[IronSightRot671]

I store 12ga, 9mm, 308, .223/556, 7.62 . in there own air tight ammo boxes. then stored in a safe place. mags are in storage bins.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I think one of the advantages of getting a cheap safe (I know, I know, a RSC) is when your collection grows to the point of needing a good one, you can store ammo in the cheap one.

 

[CNYCacher]

loaded mags in the safe
loose rounds in ammo cans adjacent to the safe.

 

[ColinthePilot]

I have one ammo can that i use exclusively for 7.62X39 (i have a lot of it), some in boxes, some in bags, about 300 on strippers. My other ammo can is basically my range box. I throw whatever I want to shoot that day in there. I also have a crate of 30.06 (wooden crate, 2 spam cans). Its all on the floor. I know thats not much by THR standards, but its about 1500 rds.

 

[sublimaze41]

Ammo cans, but they are getting expensive. I may try a Coleman Cooler and see how that works.

 

[RWMC]

Whenever I read post about "how do you store your ammo", "show us pics of your favorite whatever weapon" or, "what are you going to do with your weapons and ammo if the SHTF" it makes me think; is the poster a gov man making easy recordable data of who-has-what for a future easy pickings when confiscation is deemed necessary for the "safety of the general public"? I'm not accusing no one. Please take no offense. Just think before you post. Paranoid? No, just thinking out-of-the-box.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

Ammo cans as well. They stack well and I just stick a label on the fronts to ID them.

 

[sm]

I use the Southern Boy Storage technique.

Off site are buckets of shotgun shells in a 4 gauges, with masking tape of what shot size.
i.e 20 ga, #8.5.

Off site is metal coffee cans, buckets and wooden boxes of various calibers.
i.e 9mm 115 gr SWC, 45ACP 200 gr SWC...

Off site, are .22 shells in bulk packs, little boxes, wooden tray, plastic boxes and even some loose ones in Gulf, DX, Sinclair, Mobil, and Esso, oil cans.
(clean and dried of course)
My personal coffee can with loose and boxes, an old Hill Bros, has been replaced by a little pail that came out of a New Orleans whorehouse.
It was used to ice down drinks for customers.

Rifle rounds are in various ways...
Most times if I need a 30-30 shell in a old farm truck, one is on the seat, floorboard, dash, side pocket...

Seems my little leather dealie died after 20 some odd years...
I picked it up and shells went every-which-a-way.

I know 3 are in my ugly cowboy hat in that truck, stuck them in the ugly headband.

I am not sure I know how to actually open a new box of shells...looks like a lot of extra effort to me...

Tump 'em out and shoot 'em up

 

[Regolith]

All of my ammo is sitting in my range bag right now. That's approximately 124 shotgun rounds and somewhere between 500 and 1000 .22LR rounds. The shotgun shells are in their original boxes, the .22LR in an old lunchbox "cooler" designed to fit a single 12 oz soda can:



The only exception is the 9 rounds of 00 buck I keep in my shotgun's mag tube (x4 shells) and on a buttstock cuff (x5 shells).

I don't have nearly enough ammo.

 

[Hoppy590]

if i have more than 500 rounds of it ( my common calibers, 7,62X39 . 12 gauge, 7.62X54r, .45 etc )

its in caliber specific ammo cans by type

if i have less than 500 ( 7.5 swiss, 20 gauge , 9mm)

it shares ammo cans.

with atleast 2 loaded mags per reasonable "defense weapon"

 

[Sixtigers]

Military ammo cans. Mostly the smaller ones--turns out I can't lift one of the larger cans once it gets full of .45 or .22.

The OP stated his desire for a metal cabinet--that described my ammo locker to a 't'. Old military cabinet, previously used to store machine tools, so has heavy-duty shelves for its smallish size. Two locking doors.

I do worry about fire, sometimes...thinking about maybe getting a flam locker, and storing outside (I'm in the desert).



sm--good to see you back. You're one of the reasons I started posting.

 

[.cheese.]

30 cal ammo cans so far stores the 2,500 rounds of handgun ammo I have. Any more ammo I order would go in additional 30 cal cans.

Not sure what I'm going to do with .223 ammo though when it comes in. Probably 50 cal cans to differentiate.

I was pretty worried about quality of a technically used can when I bought them. So I cleaned them all with windex, then dried them and applied a thin coat of Hoppes all over the interior and exterior. Let that soak in, wiped off the excess, applied a thin coat of oil around the gasket, put the ammo in, and closed it.

Also I tested the cans with dry ice to see if they were airtight. I plan to get some Zorb-It packs soon to drop in the cans. Probably the dry-box anti-corrosion ones.

 

[bogie]

Wussies.

How do I store it?

In bulk.

If you know how much you have, you (a) don't have enough; and (b) will be boring when you are on the news.

Wussies.

 

[nerfsrule2]

Thanks bogie..You made me laugh.. Back on topic, anything over 500 rounds is packed in marked Ammo cans.. Different cans for storage and different cans for travel(to the range)..

 

[Sans Authoritas]

Way to be, bogie. : ) So true. I have to laugh when an incredulous reporter writes something like, "Over 5,000 rounds of ammunition were found in someone's house. Officials say there is nothing illegal about having that much ammunition."

-Sans Authoritas

 

[Titan6]

Anything that is not still crated , loaded or in the safe I put into one of these:

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=101939-82673-29005&lpage=none

These boxes are very heavy duty and easy to move. I can easily fill one till most people can not lift it. But any adult could easily roll it around.

It forms an air tight seal and you can drop in a couple of moisture absorbers if you like. They are also lockable and difficult to break into.

The image is imperfect. The tray that is pulled out actually goes all the way across the top and is a perfect place to store magazines, tools and other accessories. I keep the ammo in the boxes. You can store quite a lot of ammo in each.

 

[Rembrandt]

Don't have photos of all of it. Most is stored in lockable steel storage units, drawers, and ammo cans. A small sampling of each caliber is in the safe for quick access.

 

[kfranz]

Whenever I read post about "how do you store your ammo", "show us pics of your favorite whatever weapon" or, "what are you going to do with your weapons and ammo if the SHTF" it makes me think; is the poster a gov man making easy recordable data of who-has-what for a future easy pickings when confiscation is deemed necessary for the "safety of the general public"? I'm not accusing no one. Please take no offense. Just think before you post. Paranoid? No, just thinking out-of-the-box.

Given that your answer comes up EVERY time someone asks the "show me/how much" question, I don't think it qualifies as out of the box thinking anymore. I'd be curious to know just exactly how the method by which various folks store ammo is going to be helpful data when THEY come to take it all. The company I bought it from has an invoice. If the feds wanted data, that would be a MUCH more efficient means of compiling data.

Me, if the ammo didn't come in a crate of its own I stick it in ammo cans. LOTS and LOTS of ammo cans (I'd hate to be snubbed by being left off the list).

 

[RP88]

in the boxes they come in and in a bag that stays on my desk and away from anything that gives off any sort of warmth whatsoever.

 

[Zach S]

Defense ammo that I havent loaded in mags is stored in the original box, although I do have mags loaded with ball in case I get a wild hair to go shooting or zombies attack and I use all my defense ammo.

Bulk ammo for range use is stored in surplus ammo cans. The case to refill it isn't opened until I empty the can (this way I'm shooting one lot at a time).

.22lr is left in the box. Most of it is remington GB valuepacks that are packed loose anyway.

 

[kludge]

Surplus ammo cans, by caliber, if there's enough to fill a can.

 

[jackmead]

In wooden ammo boxes that I bought from Cabela's. I filled two then started on a war surplus ammo box.