Where do you put your ammo?

[evan price]

It usually winds up in a dirt berm not far from my house.

Oh, the loaded stuff. In recycled factory ammo boxes & trays gotten from the gun range trash cans, then stacked in USGI ammo cans. The stuff I plan to use at the range goes on shelves. Metal lockers can be gotten quite cheap at thrift stores and used office-furniture outfits.

 

[lead-inspector]

I keep my ammo in a spare bedroom on Home Depot Heavy Duty shelving. Rated 300 lbs per shelf. Just for fun all ammo is in cardboard boxes labeled FAMILY PICTURES.

Steve

 

[GojuBrian]

Yep, ammo cans.

 

[Gamera]

In the drawer right above my underwear drawer. I need to get some ammo cans though.

 

[Dark Skies]

In locked gun cabinets, in my secret man cave, deep beneath my stately home. My reliable, and unassuming, faithful, old butler is polishing them as I type.

 

[503glock]

some in safe some far far away

 

[lamebums]

Ammo cans, and desiccant scavenged from shoe and pill boxes. Sorted out by caliber, brand, and number.

 

[jackstinson]

I put mine into gun chambers.....one round at a time.

 

[thesolidus]

Igloo Cooler

Igloo Cooler.
The kind with a little handle and wheels...

Used to keep ammo tins, but they're damn heavy toting to the truck, I had to make 3 trips (for the 22LR tin, the Handgun ammo tin, the rifle ammo....) and it just screamed "GUNS HERE" when you look in my closet. If a thief hadn't seen my safe they'd be sure to look.

Safe tucked in the corner of a closet screened by some boxes, Igloo cooler next to it under some junk. Looks like a bunch of crap.
Also, when I walk past the neighbors they just see a cooler and a black case with a BASS-PRO sticker on it. Looks like i'm goin fishin with a heavy cooler of beer. Plus the cooler is about at water-proof as plastic ammo-tins, has wheels and holds a hell of a lot more.

 

[Nugilum]

I've got my ammunition in a completely different location relative to the toys.

*Beware of the inquisitive child*

 

[Just One Shot]

In my gun



I went to the gun show and bought a couple of surplus ammo cans (1-$5.00 used, 1-$8.00 new).

Part of my 9mm is in one and my .40 S&W is in the other and they are in the bottom of the gun safe.

My .22's, .380's and 12 ga. are in the bottom of the safe and the bedroom closet. I plan to purchase more cans to put the rest into in the near future provided I don't shoot it all up before I can replenish it.

 

[JohnBT]

2 big Rubbermaid tubs and a big cardboard moving box under the old iron bed frame. Ammo cans in the upstairs hall closet. A pile of ammo cans in the back bedroom next to the file cabinet. Three ammo cans in the bottom of the old sheet metal long gun cabinet in the back bedroom. None in the safes except for some loaded PMags and 1911 mags and such.

Some in the bedroom closet. Two boxes of 9mm ball on the dresser. Three boxes of 28 ga., one partial of .38 S&W and some buck shot on top the sheet metal cabinet.

Oh, a wooden box under the old mirrored dresser with a case or so of 38 Sp. match wadcutters. Two big boxes of Wolf Match Target bricks - they were $15/each years ago so I bought some cases. Another case that's sealed up and being used for a doorstop to the 2nd floor sunporch. Two cases of Wolf Match Extra somewhere (I wonder where?) I know I've forgotten some - I'm doing this from memory and some of the ammo came from my father when he decided to move to assisted living and I cleaned out their home and sold it.

Other than the 2 boxes of 9mm and the 3 of 28 ga., I haven't bought any ammo since last summer I don't think.

I was stocking up for retirement and then didn't.

John

 

[JohnBT]

And in the car there're 2 boxes and some loaded mags for a P-32 and 2 boxes of hollowpoints and mags for a Rohrbaugh.

Dang it, now I want to go home and do a complete inventory.

John

 

[ccsniper]

i have a .50 cal ammo can for my 7.62x39, and my 8mm fits in there nicely too.
its one of those really big .50 cal ammo cans not the small ones

 

[22-rimfire]

I keep what I don't shoot much in army ammo cans and keep what I'm shooting in a steel cabinet. I have slowed down considerably on my shooting of all centerfire ammunition.

 

[Blackbeard]

I used to store it all on shelves in my safe, but I have too much to fit in there now. The rest of it is in original packaging on the floor near the safe, in a closet. Some is in an ammo can.

 

[RobNDenver]

I keep ammo in a metal cabinet, near my gun safe. Very dry here, so I don't worry much about humidity fouling the ammunition. During bird hunting season I keep shotgun shells on my workbench in the garage, since I use it so frequently. No need to store it in the basement since it gets used up so quickly.

I like the flea market idea for ammo cans.

 

[Cannonball888]

I put mine 2 miles down an abandoned well beyond the reach of metal detectors and sonic imaging. Ammo cases are watertight pvc and booby-trapped with an anti-tampering destructive device. Top of the well is covered in earth and disguised with a planted clover patch. Scrap metal is buried randomly in a 100 yard radius of the site to decoy searches.

Actually it's in my closet .

 

[weisse52]

In 30 & 50 cal ammo cans on shelves locked in the food storage room. Locked, cool and dry.

 

[Funderb]

well, after the boating accident, at the bottom of a lake.

 

[CoRoMo]

Where do you put your ammo?

Center of mass.

Seriously though, the dresser drawer is a good place.
I came across a small wood dresser that has three deep and wide drawers.
It is located in my reloading room, and is dedicated for ammo storage.
When full, it is very heavy.

 

[JohnBT]

Hey, I found 2 more ammo cans of .223.

I should sell all my ammo and guns and retire.

 

[MD_Willington]

.30 cal ammo cans, walk in closet, out of sight...

 

[ScottG1911]

50 cal ammo cans

 

[AKElroy]

We had storage built under our stairs; I keep 10,000 rnds of assorted fun in ammo cans & plastic bins. Yes, I inventory. Running way low on .45 LC......