What are you all doing for ammo storage?

[Emptymag]

I've probably got ten 50 cal (reg and "fat 50") cans and four or six 40mm cans in my garage - empty.
Went on an ammo can buying binge back when you could find deals on them and never have money to fill them.




I shake my head when people who can afford to buy lots of ammo go and buy cheap, plastic cans that are not air tight.
May as well just throw it into a bucket for all the good it does to preserve the ammo.

[father-of-five]

Mostly 40mm ammo cans. I get to move them out of my house this weekend when I move.

[Emptymag]

Mostly 40mm ammo cans. I get to move them out of my house this weekend when I move.

I'm busy that day.

Just sayin! LOL!

I filled one of those 40mm cans with ammo once and tried to take it upstairs. Ha!
Never again.
I now have one in a "stationary" location - never to be moved again - unless partially emptied first.

[Steve in PA]

I’m ready for war! I have a good amount of ammo. A fair amount is in ammo cans. Some (9mm, 45acp and .223) is packed loose while other cans have the ammo still in their individual boxes. The vast majority are in case lots. All are stored on a wooden shelf rack in my reloading room.

[markshere2]

Re-purposed fridge or freezer is the bees knees.
Resistant to temperature swings.
Slightly more resistant to fire than open shelves.

Make your own shelves inside.

Camouflage is a useful thing.

[R L Suehr]

Has anyone said ammo cans yet???

[oldengineer]

I used to buy large quantities of Xtreme plated bullets in boxes of 500 and now use those boxes to store my assembled rounds. I don't have large quantities of any particular caliber so when a box gets low I make one or two hundred replacements.

[Noah_Zark]

Photo of my ammo storage setup:



Noah

[imashooter2]

Unopened cases stay in factory packaging. Bulk reloads and opened cases go in .50 cans. All the cases and cans are on shelving in my basement. Low count reloads in MTM boxes and factory boxes go on the shelf as is. Sometimes like caliber with different loads are consolidated in a .50 can on the shelves just to keep them together.

I have never seen a need for locked storage of ammunition.

[free]

So far I've used my safe for a portion of my ammo storage, but that's becoming less viable. Safe is beyond capacity now, so it makes more sense to pull the ammo that is in there out, and use the space for guns that dont currently fit. Add in the fact that I've got multiple cases of ammo just lying around already, and I could use a better system. Ideally something that is fireproof.

What's everyone using? Another safe? Something homemade? Ignore the fire risk and just let it in ammo cans?

Are you worried about someone stealing your ammo? I mean, why put that in a safe?

But if you WANT a safe that would be perfect for storing ammo, I have a free one that you can have - you just have to get it out of my garage and on to whatever trailer you want to haul it on.

That safe isn't fireproof, but I have a two drawer filing cabinet that is. You can have that too, but only if you take the first safe with it.

If you're feeling generous, I'll accept on behalf of kid #1 any donation you'd like to make to that kid's college savings plan (: