Do you load for storage? If so, do you do anything special?

Me personally, I've got enough hunting rounds loaded up for several years and that's if I get my limit every year.

Match ammo, I've got this years worth of ammo loaded up.

For just plinking ammo, I have a bunch of 9mm and .380 loaded up plus a bunch of .223.

I load as the mood strikes me except with my match ammo. I wanted to knock the years worth of ammo out for the matches I plan to shoot.

I like being able to quickly decide to go to the range and just grab a box of ammo and go.

No, I don't load for storage. I do load anywhere between 800- 2000 9mm when I do load them but they are working loads and will be shot up in a number of months.

When I start running out I load up another batch. I don't load ammo to store it for when the SHTF. I do keep enough supplies around here to load up more than enough at the drop of a hat.

Do the components count?

My long-term storage ammunition gets vacuum packed (Food Saver) in 100 round battle packs with easy-tear cutouts then put into ammo cans/5-gallon buckets (whenever I feel like it, they get rotated out every few years - No, I am not a prepper).

I clean all of my brass with NuFinish polish added to the tumbling media so residual polymer on the brass surface will provide tarnish-free along with airtight, moisture-free, rust-free, water/flood-proof storage for years/decades (if they need to be).

For range ammunition I will use within several years, they get stored in large plastic Folgers coffee cans from Costco.

All I do is package them in zip-lock bags and put them in GI surplus ammo cans.
No sealers, no desecent packs, no nothing.
If there is no water in the can when you put the ammo in and snap the lid latch shut?

There will be no humidity in the can 30 years later when you open it.

rc

rcmodel, I agree with you.

But most of my "bulk storage" ammo get vacuum packed and tossed in 5-gallon buckets. When I need to pull some ammo to put into ammo cans, I just grab some vacuum packs.

It depends on the cartridge as to how much I load.

Cartridges like 45 ACP and 9x19, I load the same thing year in and year out and the batches are large. The batches last me 9 months to a year or so. i shoot first in, first out.

223 Remington for AR plinking use is similar, match ammunition I loaded a match or two and practice ammunition ahead.

Other rifle cartridges I load small batches as they may sit for a while. I load more when the inventory gets low.

I store the ammunition in metal ammo cans.

Ammunition I set aside for home defense gets shot and replaced periodically.

What RC MODEL said...

same as above Ziploc and ammo can

I load like a mad man during the winter for my .40s&w, 9mm, and .45acp loads I use in matches, and practice. I usually have about 10k rounds each of those calibers in Zip Lock plastic storage containers. I also usually keep 5k or so rounds of .223 on hand for 3 gun, and praxtice. My hunting loads, and .223 Selfdefense loads are stored in ammo cans. My hunting loads are usually placed in MTM boxes, or factory boxes first. My .223 SD rounds are all placed on striper clips for quick reloads, and I keep 10 PMAGS loaded.

Oh by the way OP. I would store my ammo somewhere else besides my gun safe. If there should be a fire, that safe makes a Great pressurized container to allow those bullets to build pressure, and fly!

All loaded up for Pdog season coming up, around 500 or a thousand of each caliber for several rifles. I load em back up when I get home from each trip. Pistols, usually a thousand or so loaded for each caliber. I have a hundred or so deer rifle rounds loaded always. I keep almost all of my ammo in plastic ammo boxes in GI ammo boxes or on the shelf for easy access.

Another Ziplock and ammo can believer. Pistols and rifles I shoot regularly get large quantities loaded and stored. Hunting rifles, one hundred goes a long ways and depending on the rifle some of that gets vacuumed packed with no really good reason why other than habit.

Yep Zip-Loc freezer bags in manageable amounts with the info on a paper slip packed inside ammo cans as needed. Surplus propellant loaded rounds used up first however.

Loaded like all others. Stored sorted in ziplocks with desi packs and put in cans or locktop yoghurt containers to protect the bags from punctures.

I load whatever, when I'm in the mood. Most of my Garand good I has already loaded and stored in GI ammo cans. 9mm I load when I'm in the mood, put it in a box, stuff it in an ammo can. My .270 hunting rounds are loaded up and in a Plano box. I have 67 rounds left and I'll probably load up another 100 just because that's how many bullets are in a box. That'll keep me in hunting ammo for the rest of my life.

On a related topic - does anyone have a clever technique or gadget that facilitates transferring rounds from the reloader collecting tub to 50 round plastic ammo boxes?

Just my hands. Seem to be working great so far

I keep my handgun ammo in 100 round MTM boxes. I load 500 at a sitting when I get down to the last box. Rifle is in 50 round boxes and only two boxes at a time. I shoot the heck out of all my guns in the summer months and cast and reload on rainy days.

All I do is package them in zip-lock bags and put them in GI surplus ammo cans.

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This is exactly what I do as well.

I load everything I can in the winter, and shoot everything I can in the summer.

Never really loaded purposefully for storage although I've used bullet sealer, just in case. But I found that the bullet sealer was fouling the barrel unnecessarily so these days I'm just sealing the primer. I keep my primers and powder in a 5 gal bucket with a can of damp rid, last time I checked I had 43% humidity in the bucket but I don't have room in there for ammo after it's made up so I just make up a day's worth at a time, generally 50 rounds or less.

I just started loading for serious storage. I usually have 200 to 400 rds of everything but decided to fill some 50cal ammo cans with each caliber I load. It is a slow process for me and a single stage press but I like it and it relaxes me. So far only have 1000 .223 and the can isn't quite full. As of last night I have 1100 9mm and can is a little over 1/2 full. Does anyone know how many rounds it takes to fill a can of 9mm, 45acp, 38spc, 223.?

9mm

223/5.56

Only drawback is those danged cans can get REALLY heavy when full of ammo. Especially the 40 MM cans that I have along the wall. That is why I use the Zip-Loc's. Just pull out what you want and place in a smaller container to transport to range or wherever. Really saves on Chiropractor visits so I spend that cash on components instead.