How do you organize and store your Ammo???

[JohnBT]

Cardboard boxes, the moving company kind. Rubbermade bins that just manage to slide under the old iron bed frame. Some in the range bags, some in the canvas tool/ammo bags, some in piles on the floor, some stacked on the safe, a box of paper 28 ga. sitting on the coffee table, an old wooden box with a latched lid I use for a door stop on the second-floor sunporch door. I know there're a few cases of .22 rimfire under the dresser and some in the closet. And some more stuff in the walk-in hall closet. Organize you say? Next week, I'm busy right now looking for something.

And ammo cans? Every ammo can I manage to buy is full of ammo. Then I shoot the boxed stuff so I don't have to shuffle the cans around looking for things. I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I'm not hoarding ammo, I'm saving up for retirement. I wish I'd bought more of the 28 ga. AA-HS when it was $5 a box. I still have a few cases of Wolf Match Target .22 LR I bought when it was $15 a brick. And some WME too, but that was around $20 up to $25/brick when I was buying it.

John

 

[GBExpat]

After I break open a case of ammo, I usually repackage the remainder in .30cal or .50cal ammo cans. IIRC, I currently have >25 of the former and >70 of the latter providing homes for such ammo ...

... oh, it all lives in my basement.

 

[S4Lee]

A 7.62 ammo can holds 7 50rd boxes of .40 perfectly!

Right now, I have a couple of cans sitting in the back of my closet, but I'm thinking I may eventually get one of those stack-on double-door cabinets. They're not the most secure things, but they're relatively cheap and light enough to get up the 2 flights of stairs to apt.

 

[ilbob]

I found a wooden cabinet at a local lumber yard. brought it home and assembled it. Put ammo in ammo cans. set ammo cans inside cabinet. realized fastners holding shelves in place needed some help after hearing loud noise inside cabinet. put cleats under the shelves to take the weight. put a padlock on the door. not real secure, but is meant mostly to discourage casual walkers by.

some ammo is in factory cartons instead of ammo cans, but is still in the cabinet.

 

[.cheese.]

Rembrandt - you have WAYYYY too many calibers!

Two days ago I got rid of the last extraneous caliber firearm. Now, everything is either .40 SW, .38 Special +P, .223/5.56, or .22lr, or more specifically, Speer Gold Dot .40SW 165 grain, Speer Gold Dot 38 Special +P Short Barrel 135 grain, Hornady TAP .223/5.56 (mostly 5.56 75 grain), and a couple different CCI .22lrs.

simplicity is a wonderful thing. It makes buying ammo by the case really easy.

 

[jrfoxx]

I commondeered one of our bookshelve to store and organize all my ammo, and I keep track of what I have, what I have on order, and my amount I want to always have on hand, for each caliber/type with an Excel spreadsheet. Works out great for me.

 

[M2 Carbine]

How do you organize and store your Ammo???

I store most ammo in 50 cal ammo boxes.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

Crates, sardine cans, battle packs, 50 cal ammo cans and magazines...And a shelf with one of each caliber for show.

 

[mio]

in bulk

 

[possom813]

Is this too much???

 

[tasco 74]

last year i saw a steel sectioned box at a garage sale... i asked the guy there what it was for and he told me it's to keep welding rods in... the sections fit the plastic .38 spl -.358 mag ammo boxes from midway or others perfectly... so now it's an ammo magazine instead of a welding rod box! holds over 3000 rounds is the 50-100 round plastic ammo boxes......

 

[eagle45]

I had two of the Stack-On double door cabinets when I bought my gun safe a few years ago. I gave one of the Stack-On cabinets to my son. The other one I made into a storage cabinet. On the right side that had been used to store long guns, I took everything out, then installed the type of white board that is pre-drilled for use with adjustable shelving. It was a little tricky to install, I had to put both side pieces in, the lay the top on and screw it together inside the cabinet. After that, just put the adjustable shelves in. I store mostly reloads in this cabinet, so I have one shelf each for 40, 45, 38, 38+p, 357, 22 and the bottom has mostly misc. rifle ammo it. Whatever does not fit in there goes in safe.

 

[jrfoxx]

Is this too much???

Only if you put it in your living room, and just have 2 boxes of 9mm to store, otherwse, looks fine to me!

 

[W.E.G.]

I'll trust the military on this one.

Ammo goes in ammo cans.

 

[MilsurpShooter]

Ammo cans. If it's surplus without the ammo can it goes into one of these

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_...rtables&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a

 

[Ben Shepherd]

Usually 30 caliber ammo cans. clean 'em up, recondition the lid seals, throw in a dessicant pack with the ammo, and seal them up. Put on the label with pertinent info. DONE.

I can move fairly fast if needed while carrying two 30 cal cans full of ammo. Fifty cal cans are too heavy to be mobile with 2 of them.

 

[buck00]

Pile it up. Somtimes I put bulk 7.62 x 39 or .223 in ammo cans.

 

[boxcab]

buck00,

Thats just a pretty picture.

(Is that a wine box on the left?)

-Boxcab

 

[Dumpster Baby]

This is my west wing, where the larger calibers are stored, smaller calibers in the other wings.

 

[GBExpat]

Seeing that pic brings to mind the "What caliber for Grizzly?" threads that pop up every so often.

 

[El Tejon]

Memo to self: Call possum as he is on to something.

Surplus ammo cans. Buy ammo, open can, pour ammo in can.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Surplus ammo cans. Buy ammo, open can, pour ammo in can.

Then get a friend to carry the cans.

 

[Bruce333]

Out in the shop, in ammo cans and wood boxes.



Inside the house, I have a few boxes of handgun ammo with loaded mags, and loaded mags and stripper clips for rifles.

 

[Glock Holiday]

I just lock it all up in my old gun cabinet since I got a real gun safe.
I organize by caliber. This picture is old and it's pretty packed now I'm glad to say.

 

[Cannonball888]

I have two of these 81mm shell boxes. In one box I have smaller military ammo cans and commercial boxes of ammo. The other box is filled with assorted loaded magazines in milsurp pouches and carriers.