How do you store your ammo?

[Dogslayer]

My phone rotated the picture. Can someone rotate it so the cartridges are pointing up. Thanks, Dogslayer.

 

[superduty38]

I use ammo cans for reloads and leave factory stuff in boxes on shelves.

^^This. I want the factory self defense ammo in the original boxes with the lot number.

 

[Car16]

I use ammo cans for reloads and factory ammo cans on metal wire racks

 

[Pipedoc]

store in ammo cans or original packaging. heat won't bother it so the garage is fine for mine.

 

[AZHTfreak]

MTM crates with a DampRid container in each...

 

[deserttrans]

Cabinet in GI ammo cans and some plastic knock offs.

 

[Abbey]

I store most ammo in factory packaging, some in ammo cans. I don't worry about heat. I have some ammo that I've stored for 20 years and have never had any go bad.

I do have a question about shotgun shells though. I don't shoot near as much shotgun as I did when I was younger. Has anyone seen shells crack or degrade from heat?

 

[knockonit]

I store most ammo in factory packaging, some in ammo cans. I don't worry about heat. I have some ammo that I've stored for 20 years and have never had any go bad.

I do have a question about shotgun shells though. I don't shoot near as much shotgun as I did when I was younger. Has anyone seen shells crack or degrade from heat?

naw on shotgun shells, just go out in desert where some a..hole didn't pick up his hulls from five years ago hunt, you can see they kinda weather well, epa kinda hanging around shiat. :doh:

 

[etprescottaz01]

30 and 50 cal cans. Stacked and labeled on metal shelving from Home Depot.

Ammo cans are for storing ammo. Good idea in case of fire or flood.

 

[Flash]

I do have a question about shotgun shells though. I don't shoot near as much shotgun as I did when I was younger. Has anyone seen shells crack or degrade from heat?

I keep my shotgun shells in the garage, both new and used for reloading. Some of them are at least 20 years old and they haven't cracked yet.

 

[xerts1191]

The pic looks impressive either way dogslayer!

 

[fredcdobbs]

Keep my half box of 20 gauge shells in the cabinet below the kitchen sink, and my almost full medicine bottle of .22s in the medicine cabinet.

 

[musicman10_1]

I keep factory ammo in boxes and put that into metal ammo cans. My plinking and general use reloads go into plastic MTM cans loose. I have some shelves, but they sag under the weight and so I'm not sure which direction to go with regard to the storing the ammo cans.

 

[BananaHands]

I store mine in ammo cans on a heavy duty wire rack that I’ve placed inside of a melamine cabinet. I drilled holes in the bottom of the cabinet so that the legs of the shelves sit directly on the concrete floor. That way the relatively weak cabinet isn’t supporting any weight, it just keeps prying eyes away and the hasp lock keeps my kids out.

 

[Old Jeff H]

Like a lot of others, in their boxes and then inside ammo cans. I recently had a water heater leak that sprayed down all my shelving. Fortunately, everything was well protected and unharmed.

 

[mtptwo]

Some ammo cans for the loose stuff. Original packaging for the rest. Water and humidity won't be a problem with the AC running most of the time.

 

[Robidouxs]

I prefer having ammo cans organized on shelves. In the past I used to just stack the ammo cans on each other but then I noticed I started ignoring and dreading trying to retrieve ammo from the ammo can at the bottom of the stack. The problem for me was finding a metal shelf that could support the weight and without having a ridiculously large footprint. I ended up going with a Craftsman shelf. This shelf has made retrieving ammo cans so much faster and safer than before.