Ammo Storage Question

[Fake Name]

I am looking for an airtight container for long term ammo storage in my basement.

I looked into using those 20 gallon size zip loc bags but with the amount of ammo I have it just isn't practical. I would like to find something that is the size of the large plastic storage bins that wally world sells but in an airtight configuration.

What do you guys use?

 

[abearir]

Military ammo cans work pretty good for the military.................

 

[SJUHockey10]

Artillery shell and mortar storage cans work pretty good, too.

 

[vis-à-vis]

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[PAshooter]

Get yourself a FoodSaver vacuum packing machine. Got lots of ammo sealed in vacuum bags and stored in USGI ammo cans. It'll easily outlive me.

 

[MrTwigg]

Get yourself a FoodSaver vacuum packing machine.

What he said.

 

[BobMcG]

Good suggestions, and if you want a large, waterproof container to place the smaller containers into you might like one of these. They come in three sizes and you can get them used ($50) or new ($70). I picked up a used one and it's just fine.

http://www.galleria-e.com/cgi-bin/Colemans.storefront/en/product/133301

 

[benEzra]

Military ammo cans. They are like $5 each, airtight, watertight, stackable, and nearly crushproof. Get one can for each caliber you shoot, label it with a labelmaker, and you're good to go. I like the skinny .30 caliber cans best, personally, but I do have one of the wider cans for 7.62x39 (my wife and I both have guns in that caliber).

 

[Texas Gunman]

Just make sure, when you purchased military ammo cans, that the rubber seal in in tac.

That being said, I've used these type of containers for years, these seem to do their job nicely.

TG

 

[gezzer]

IMHO don't make the containor to big you will never move it. A 20mm can of 12 ga is VERY, VERY, heavy! Doh!