Ammo Cans

[Emptymag]

With our wars winding down, will ammo can prices rise due to less available?

I can't confirm this, but I thought I read somewhere that it's cheaper for them to sell them as scrap than ship them back from overseas to sell as surplus.

If so, they will dry up just like any surplus rifle does in time.

[Fortytwo]

I've often wondered why our military apparently wastes money on buying new cans all the time. It would seem the cans have a longer life span than they're using them for. They should be refilled and redeployed until the can can't be used anymore.

I thought about this, too. I can think of two possible explanations.

1. Because they can, keep buying new ones that is, courtesy of us tax payers. This applies to a lot of government purchases.... Or,

2. Once the cans were deployed to the field, one does not know what kind of abuses they get -- physical dints and dents, stresses, chemical like fuel or solvent could have been spilled on them, extreme heat in the warehouse or in the field might have damaged the o-ring, etc. In other words, once deployed, they would no longer be considered as "mil spec" without costly repair and recertification processes. It would be easier to just buy more new ones. They probably don't cost too much anyway, and a part of the cost can be recouped through the surplus sales.

[unclejumbo]

Lots of cans at the Harrisburg gun show. I saw some at two for $25. They also had a lot of fat fifties.

[TheGhost27]

.22lr that I got from CTD.

Well... at least it wasn't Dick's...

[Fortytwo]

.22lr that I got from CTD.

Well... at least it wasn't Dick's...

That's only because stainless had already cleaned out the store-that-shall-not-be-named a little earlier in the thread....

I just got done stacking mine and my back is killing me. It must be the 300,000 rounds of 22LR that I bought at Dick's.