How do you store your ammo?

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Just a general question. I'm curious about your guys' philosophies on this.

This is how I store ammo:

1. The bulk of my ammo is stored in the boxes it came in, inside either plastic, or metal milsurp ammo boxes. These are all locked.

2. I keep my reloaded ammo in mtm or Cabelas brand plastic ammo boxes in a different milsurp ammo can

3. I keep a fair amount of ammo in loaded magazines, as well.

I do not keep any loose ammo, with the exception of 7.62x54r (I split a spam can with somebody a while ago).

I am pretty anal about the storage and records of my ammo. I have a spread sheet with the amount of each caliber I have. I keep round counts for all of my guns.

How do you guys do it? What is your method?
 
Loose in bins in the reloading room. Transfer to plastic ammo boxes for range use.
 
I have a large bin that is lockable where I store my ammo that isn’t loaded in firearms places strategically around the house. I’m never far from a gun.

I do have a general ledger with Ammo counts but I update it every once in a while instead of keeping an extremely accurate, up to date count. You never know the situation you might be in and you don’t want to make yourself look bad if you are ever investigated by the law. I’d hate to have to explain where five rounds went as opposed to a ledger that was last updated a month ago.
 
I try to keep store bought ammo in its original package. My reloads are in MTM labeled plastic boxes. All ammo is kept in a steel job box and locked.
 
I keep a lot of factory ammo in cartridge specific plastic boxes. Planos mostly. Range ammo reloads, the same when they go in the range bag. Larger lots of reloads get stored in ziplocks and then in ammo cans of some variety.

I have several of these.
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I keep ammo, powders, and primers in these coolers. Keeps heat out. My gun room is in my attic and it gets warm up there in summer.

I try not to store in factory boxes much. Cardboard can collect moisture. It’s not like it’s a problem we hear about though.
 
Mil surplus ammo cans.
Most of the propellant that will fit in an ammo can and a primers too.
 
I forgot to add that I have a TON of those silica gel packets (I can get them from work), so I have 2 or 3 in every ammo can. I store my powder on a shelf above my reloading bench, and my some of my primers are in an ammo can (with silica gel packets to protect from moisture) and some are strewn about on the bench ready to be used. I keep all my sized, cleaned, trimmed, (and expanded for pistol brass) ready-to-load brass in shoe box sized clear plastic containers from Ikea. Brass in different stages of the process are kept in old Tupperware or small boxes etc.
 
New 50 Cal ammo cans with reusable desiccant packs. Locked in a closet. Couple loaded mags in safe. Mainly for my AK and PC9. I do have a junk jar when I find stray bullets.
 
Unopened milsurp cases & battlepacks are left as-is until they need to be opened ... and, when that occurs, I transfer the ammo to one or more of my 100+ milsurp .30/.50/20mm ammo cans. Same with belted milsurp. I leave them on the belts until I anticipate the near-future need for them.

I keep at least one/ea bando+clips/chargers/magazines of all relevant types of ammo for when I just want to quickly grab a longgun (run the cleaning rod&patch thru the bore), grab some ammo and head out the back door to the farm for some shooting therapy.

Commercial ammo remains in the commercial ammo boxes, often stored in milsurp ammo cans.

Most of my reloads live in the 100rd MTM-type boxes (with real hinges, not the crappy bending plastic "hinges").

I do not keep round-counts for each firearm or a close count on my ammunition.
 
In Tupperware type food containers inside military ammo cans. I rarely buy factory ammo.
(A .50 caliber ammo can full of .45 acp is heavy!)
 
What little factory ammo I buy remains in the boxes it came in until I shoot it. Reloads go in Plano or MTM plastic ammo boxes. All these just sit on shelves in my garage.
 
Ammo boxes, first aid boxes, Midway boxes, plastic ammo boxes, Bagmaster bullet bags,
 

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Mine is a lot like yours A_F. My cartridges in military ammo cans. While factory stays in it's box, reloads are in MTM boxes with a data card in each one. And I too keep strict records on my ammo amounts and use.
 
Various containers including gi ammo cans and factory packaging for factory ammo 7 components (powder & primers).

All stored with desiccant packs in a large rusty old refrigerator on a timer to run several times / day for a few minutes. Seems to work ok past 20 years or so.

I keep load data & date on reloads, date on factory & components, but don’t bother with other record keeping, it seems of little value.
 
In ammo cans, which are in turn stored in one of those big metal jobsite boxes for bulk storage. The ammo that is currently being used are kept outside of the job box until depleted. Hunting ammo (smaller amounts) are in the storage cabinet under the gun cabinet.
 
Do any of you line the inside of you cans with cardboard and then store say a certain caliber loose in there? If so how was corrosion and whatnot, if any? I used to store stuff loose in my cans as they are intended for specific calibers, however I had some issues with corrosion storing like that at one time over a long period of time. I want to avoid that again but want the space that you can get by dumping all of the cardboard containers and only storing the ammo.
 
Almost all my ammo is stored in the house in the factory boxes inside MTM cases with several desiccant packs strewn about in the case.

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Definitely not as good as metal ammo cans, but so far so good. I don’t max them out, but they are carrying a lot of weight and holding up well stacked. I am pretty comfortable that this solution will work for the next few years until I hit a decision point on whether we will remain in our current home or not.

I’ll send pics via PM if asked.
 
I store factory rifle and pistol ammo in surplus 50 & 30 cal cans and cases of .22 lr and shotgun shells fit good in 120mm cans.
Started putting 5 rounds of loose hunting reloads in food saver vacuum bags.
 
This is an older picture and looks pretty sparse compared to how it is now, but the hardware hasn't changed. Factory ammo is kept in the boxes it came in, reloads are either in MTM boxes or plastic ammo cans from Harbor Freight. It's all kept in the basement on a heavy duty metal stand that's bolted to the wall in several places. My basement is pretty low humidity so I'm not too worried about moisture. I do not track anything as far as counts of ammo, although I know off the top of my head what I have for everything within a few hundred rounds.

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I only have ammo I loaded, and in two cartridges types (probably a lot fewer types than most people) split about 90/10. I started with 100 rnd MTM boxes, and I still have a couple dozen. I'm happy with the MTM boxes, but I bought a couple dozen magazines/clips and I like those even better for storing ammo. I want to buy even more magazines/clips and no more MTM boxes. I'd like to be able to go to classes without having to load until the end of the day. I'm close to that. Again, the MTM boxes have been excellent, but I generally load on the press what I'm going to shoot in a relatively short term, and magazines/clips are better. I store bulk for the long-term as components rather than loaded cartridges.

I've been storing bullets in plastic yogurt tubs. A tub holds about 500 and I'd rather have many of these of reasonable weight rather than a really heavy bucket. At some point, I might upgrade to a better container -- possibly Viewtainers, or something from Cambro.

I store powder in the original bottles, but I'm considering changing that, especially if I get to the point where I'm only using one powder.

I store primers in the factory wood crates. I'm not sure there is a better method.

I store brass in Akro bins, but brass that won't be used for more than a month goes in a sealed plastic bag first.
 
CCW and HD reloads are kept in appropriate magazines and speed loaders at the ready, with any surplus in factory packaging in a GI ammo can, if it's a full box, or on a shelf in a lockable cabinet if a partially full box..
Hand loaded range ammo in MTM boxes
.22LR in factory packaging(bricks or plastic 100rd sliders) in GI ammo cans.

Clean de-primed brass and sized cast bullets go into ammo cans to await hand loading. Primers and powder stays in original packaging per manufacturer's directions
 
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