How to display an ammo collection?

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I was wondering what you think are the best ways to display a small ammunition collection.
By "small" I mean less than a hundred, and I only want to display maybe half of them.
Anything is probably better than my current cardboard box full of loose cartridges.
 
Easy to do a wall mount.









https: //www.amazon.ca/MTM-CBD-1-40-Cartridge-Display-Board/dp/B001UPT03M

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I have several boards , peg board ( Masonite) covered with a textile ( mine are red and green felt ) fishing line looped poked threw from the back to hold a cartridge at its base and neck and then tensions with a rubber band ( on the back side ) . Having the holes eventually spaced out helps to give it a clean and tidy appearence . P touch tags under each cartridge . Depending on how many cartridges 20 or more get heavy quick so a good strong frame is needed .
 
Dosing said:
https: //www.amazon.ca/MTM-CBD-1-40-Cartridge-Display-Board/dp/B001UPT03M
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I tried ordering one of these and they took my money...then after waiting for a month, I complained and after a time and even though they had given me a tracking number, they finally admitted that they had never sent it...so I got a refund. They then told me I could reorder...but now they are listed as "currently unavailable." Totally useless bunch.
 
Rob said:
I tried ordering one of these and they took my money...then after waiting for a month, I complained and after a time and even though they had given me a tracking number, they finally admitted that they had never sent it...so I got a refund. They then told me I could reorder...but now they are listed as "currently unavailable." Totally useless bunch.
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Easy to make your own. Shadow box some pva, and there you go. Any size you want, any depth.
 
jonnyc said:
It depends on what and how you collect.
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The ammunition that I want to display are relatively heavy British big-bore sporting cartridges. I want to keep them all in good condition and accessible, so no permanent fixing, no gluing them down. A minimum of twenty cartridges, probably more like thirty. So the display will necessarily be heavy.

I want it to be able to go on a wall or shelf...so no table tops. Shadow boxes are fine, but there still has to be some way to firmly hold the cartridges.

Does anyone have a source for shadow boxes or other types of display boxes? There isn't much available around here. I looked at the ones in a chain "craft" store named Michaels but was not very impressed with them.
 
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I suggest a shadow box picture frame as well. I have seen a frame put on a coffee table above the normal surface and then covered in glass. There was 100's of cases under the glass though. The old oak coffee table carried it well.
 
I have hung 3ft long chunks of steel on a wall, even an artillery shell can be framed and hung.
Gluing is not an issue, I cant think of many rounds that weigh more than five rounds of 8x56r in a stripper clip, and i secured it with pva. PVA can be easily had, holds well, doesnt get brittle, and will peel right off any round when you want it too. Far less fussy than tieing rounds on.
Shadow boxes can be custom made any size/colour/depth by a framing store. But some of the online ones are cheaper. My shadow box for 3mm kolibris cost me over 100$ because of the materials chosen. A basic one would have cost half that, a crafts store one about 10-15$s.
 
Tigrr
You have them very nicely displayed.
I am guessing they are a factory ( the buffalo
hunter one is ) as the cartridges look to be pristine.
I have a company presentation ( Weatherby)with their current at the time sampling in a acrylic block .

I have allso seen ammo displayed in a maxim ammo belt ( nailed to a 8 ft board ) and mounted to the wall . I would imagine some of the loops were modified to fit the larger cartridges.
 
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blasted_saber said:
What are the legalities of displaying?
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Reference both the Explosives Act, and Regulations, and the Firearms Act, and Regulations.

When propellant powder, percussion caps or black powder cartouches are stored in a dwelling, they must be stored away from flammable substances and sources of ignition. People not authorized by the user must not be given unlimited access to the propellant powder, percussion caps or black powder cartouches.

<https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2013-211/page-36.html#h-798345>
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...is not displayed with and is not readily accessible to ammunition that can be discharged from it, unless the ammunition is displayed in a container or receptacle that is kept securely locked and that is constructed so that it cannot readily be broken open or into.

<https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-98-209/page-2.html#h-1019977>
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Wendell saved me the trouble of pointing this out. All it takes is some Nancy to red flag you with a 911. Or the pizza person . . .
 
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