bringing lots of ammo to the range

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When heading to the range, how do you carry all your ammo with you? Unwrapping 20 surplus rounds at a time is tedious and its a pain to keep track of all the paper/boxes.
I've considered dumping all my surplus ammo into a plastic ammo box. Would this be frowned upon?
 
My easy container for 9mm and 45 acp reloads is Zip lock bags. Several hundred per bag. Ammo boxes can be had cheap. I've seen Tupperware containers, coffee tins, just about any container will do, and the less paper garbage for someone to dispose of. You idea of an ammo box is 100% acceptable.
 
I use a el cheapo red metal tool box with a clasp on that can take a lock thru it . Like 20 inches long 10 inches high 8 or so inches wide . Do it all the time . will hold hundreds of rounds . And inconspicuous . I wedge 1 inch thick sections of styro foam to make separators and plastic ammo boxes come up on for sale at Cabelas and others on a regular basis .
When I go shooting . It would be like 303 , 308 and maybe 22 . So I,m not worried about mixing up ammo accidentally .
 
I have an old beat up brown metal military style ammo can with stickers all over it, so I know which is mine. I just toss ammo in, however it comes and just throw out the garbage at the range. I don't like loose ammo of different types everywhere! I usually get tired before the can is empty...
 
Ziplocs for bulk 223 rounds, ammo boxes for my long range reloads. Only ammo I get factory is 22 LR which stays in its 50 round packs.
 
I use Rubbermaid kitchen containers. Not the disposable ones. I have a few different sizes. I usually have 4 or 5 calibers with me. Larger rifle goes into the mtm plastic containers.
 
I load all mags at home before I leave. I bring lots more ammo and keep them all locked up in a giant box. I reload at the range when I unload all of them. Shooting is fun and reloading sucks!
 
I use the MTM ammo boxes. For most of my handguns and rifles I have enough clips that if I load them all up I'm good for a day at the range. For the rest, like my single-shot BA rifles, I use MTM ammo boxes and pack them into a 50 cal ammo tin.

For my 10/22's I love my H3CR range kit, which was designed and manufactured for 22 lr RIFLES and says right on it "NOT FOR USE WITH THE RUGER CHARGER PISTOL" and my GSG 110 rd drums which ALSO say on them "Designed for Ruger 10/22 RIFLES" and strangely they also say "Do not use Waxed Ammunition" but the darn things jam like crazy if I load them with anything that ISN"T waxed. I tried to load one up with thunderbolts and I couldn't even manage to get it loaded, it kept getting stuck. Then I loaded it with waxed CCI blazer and it loaded right up with zero difficulty, go figure.
 
Believe it or not, many years ago I got flack from a range officer/instructor about having bulk pistol ammo in a plastic container. He told me it was unsafe to have it lose like that as the bullet could hit a primer on the bottom of another ctg..... :rolleyes:

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When I get a case of 1000 rounds, I dump them all into a regular metal ammo can at home so I don't cart excess packaging to the range. Especially if you open a spam can of surplus. Once opened, the spam can is not a good container. Open up spam can, pull apart whatever packaging they have for the individual rounds (often its just 20 rounds wrapped in some paper) and dump into the ammo can.

Canada Ammo has a good deal on brand new ammo cans of various sizes. One 750 round spam can of 7.62x39 fits neatly into the standard 50 cal ammo can
 
trebor2880 said:
Me too, sometimes go on sale at CTC.

Can't preload clips at home, club doesn't allow it.
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Your club doesn't allow you to bring loaded magazines to the range? That is truly bizarre.

Once I finish shooting for the day, I reload all my mags at the range, bring them home and I have fresh loaded mags when I arrive next time.
 
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