How do you store your ammo?

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Hello friends and neighbors // @ post #17

Yes heavy is the word. I put in more support under the floor of my 100yr. old house for sure.

Mainly, , I want their portability/accessabliity reduced, because ammo cans do not lock and do have handles I lock them all in a box too heavy to be moved as a whole.


I almost bought another safe, lol.

 

[wrs840]

Mainly, , I want their portability/accessabliity reduced, because ammo cans do not lock and do have handles I lock them all in a box too heavy to be moved as a whole.

This is what I do. The .50 cal cans are locked in a trunk that couldn't be moved "as a whole" without a fork-lift. This is a security-measure built-into the storage method.

Les

 

[22-rimfire]

If I had young kids around, I'd probably have one of the large steel contractor's boxes that are sold at places like Lowe's and then put a lock on it. The ammo boxes would go inside that. They are often big enough to store long guns in too if you don't have a safe.

 

[lookshigh123]

That's might be true for sure.

 

[Mac's Precision]

I put my ammo in vacuum seal bags. I use the wife's food sealer...I put ammo in the bags...vacuum the heck outta them and seal. I store a lot of gun stuff in vacuum bags. Spare mags get wiped down with corrosion inhibitor and sealed. I even long term store guns in those bags. The stuff is cheap by the roll at costco.

Cheers
Mac.

 

[CapnMac]

When I lived in an apartment, and had less room, I used MTM boxes that fit the ammo cans I had. So, it was out of the factory boxes, then into the plastic boxes. The heavy cans kept the casual from monkeying with them much.

For going to the range, the MTM boxes pull out nicely and go in a range bag. (That, and having a can of "Ready Service" got to be too much of a pain to load and tote.

Once I had a house, and fewer problems with unplanned incursions of either children or roommates, locking closet with shelves for in the box-from-the-store (and bigger boxes down on the floor).

Still use a range bag, and the boxes that go in, and the boxes that go to the range. Which can be a pain, the range trashcans are often full.