OP, that's probably not the best place to store your ammo. A safe may retain too much pressure from rounds cooking off possibly resulting in a larger kaboom.Shelves in my safe are too full.
As much as I have room sits in the safe's. The rest sits in a cabinet.Just kept in the original containers. For range day I normally will dump ammo am taking with me into plastic containers with a screw on lid just to make it easier to deal with at the range. As long as it's kept in the home it will out live the buyer. If you want to store it outside in a shed or unheated garage or such ammo cans are a good idea.How do you store your ammo? Only 1 caliber per ammo box or a little bit of each caliber in each box.
Do you use ammo cans or something else. Shelves in my safe are too full.
... One of my friends had switched from military ammo cans to the plastic ones not long before the flood. He said that the metal cans were to heavy. He lost all of his ammo. Every plastic can was full of water. ...
How do you store your ammo?
Those green ammo cans are more likely to build up great pressure than that green thin cabinet. I have been transitioning to the Plano plastic versions of the green cans - lighter, cheaper, rustproof, and in a fire will melt and let rounds cook off without pressure build up.OP, that's probably not the best place to store your ammo. A safe may retain too much pressure from rounds cooking off possibly resulting in a larger kaboom.
As to how I store ammo, one caliber per container. I use ammo cans for ammo to store, MTM boxes, recycled ammo boxes, and zip lock bags for my reloads. All the ammo cans sit on shelves, the reloads and some other range ammo in above containers sits in an old lateral file cabinet.
One comment said the plastic cans leaked in a flood.Those green ammo cans are more likely to build up great pressure than that green thin cabinet. I have been transitioning to the Plano plastic versions of the green cans - lighter, cheaper, rustproof, and in a fire will melt and let rounds cook off without pressure build up.
As to the OP - only one type of ammo per can. I have several types of 9mm, for example, each gets its own can and is labeled on the outside.
Those green ammo cans are more likely to build up great pressure than that green thin cabinet. I have been transitioning to the Plano plastic versions of the green cans - lighter, cheaper, rustproof, and in a fire will melt and let rounds cook off without pressure build up.
George, my comment on the cookoffs was to the OP storing ammo in a safe, not Chuck's storage in the green cabinet. Actually, Chuck's would be good storage. I like how he reinforced the middle of the shelves with the 1x boards.Those green ammo cans are more likely to build up great pressure than that green thin cabinet.
I'd sure hate to have to bend ALL the way over to get from the bottom or reach ALL the way to grab one from the top though!George, my comment on the cookoffs was to the OP storing ammo in a safe, not Chuck's storage in the green cabinet. Actually, Chuck's would be good storage. I like how he reinforced the middle of the shelves with the 1x boards.
I live in SE Fla and I don't have an issue with the ammo cans rusting. As long as I get them in good condition to begin with, they will last a very long time.
Thankfully, through my participation in the Uncle Sam's Weekend Warriors Club I can get some nearly brand new ammo cans when I need them. And for $Free. So, I can't complain.
Maybe I have enough already? This is the other side of the shelf, or more accurately, the other shelf. When I first built this one, I had a mix of the 30 and 50 cal cans. So, I figured out that by varying the middle support I could get one side to hold two 50s and one side to hold a 50 and two 30s. I reversed as I went up as I wanted to screw in the support fully on top and bottom. I didn't want to "toe nail" or angle in.
How do you store your ammo? Only 1 caliber per ammo box or a little bit of each caliber in each box.
Do you use ammo cans or something else. Shelves in my safe are too full.
I have them stacked by caliber now. The ones on the bottom have duplicates on the top. I did move all the pistol and 22 ammo to another room . I only have 72 cans of rifle and shotgun ammo in there now.Gunny, I love all your ammo cans, but I'd hate to play tetris in trying to get to one of the bottom cans.