How to Store Ammo??

[Magellann]

You could always go to Best Buy and ask for some that come with the electronics, they toss out plenty of them.

 

[silverfoxdj]

I figured ammo cans is best for Long term storage and plastic storage bins wouldn't cut it

A wooden box would be cheaper lol

 

[OkayShooter]

I figured ammo cans is best for Long term storage and plastic storage bins wouldn't cut it

If you keep on the silica gel packs. If they get too saturated and not allowed to dry out, than you will get a moisture problem and rust.

A wooden box would be cheaper lol

I store mine in a old 762x39 wooden crate, ammo just tossed in ziplock bags. There is 30 carbine, 762x51, 762x54R, 22LR, pistol ammo. Store it sideways too.

 

[Grawfr]

How to store ammo? To the right. Always to the right. Unless you're an evil southpaw, then it's to the left.

 

[fdr]

Which retailers sell silica packs ? Walmart ? Canadian tire ?

I never throw them away when they come in retail packaging with the stuff I buy. Over several years, I've accumulated quite substantial plastic bag of them (I keep them in double bags, so they don't absorb moisture from the air). I only keep the bigger packs, of course, and throw away small ones.

Apparently, you can re-dry them in a microwave, google it, there are instructions on the web.

 

[Tjv787]

Saturated silica packs don't cause excess moisture, they just won't hold any additional moisture from my understanding

If you keep on the silica gel packs. If they get too saturated and not allowed to dry out, than you will get a moisture problem and rust

Some of them u can dry out but I had a bunch that were turned to a hard gel and those cant be reused .
They initially come in a powder form and once they start to saturate they can hold %220 water, but they can't be dried out once they change to gel form

 

[underscore]

If I remember right you don't want to store it in sealed metal containers as it can make the rounds more dangerous in a fire.

 

[Redbull1]

In a cupboard in the laundry room........worked for 35 years so far and many more to come. What happens if your ammo gets wet in the field? You going to throw them out?

Keep it simple and dry.

RB

 

[Magellann]

If I remember right you don't want to store it in sealed metal containers as it can make the rounds more dangerous in a fire.

Thats just a myth, it was proven that live rounds are not that dangerous in a fire.

 

[silverfoxdj]

If I remember right you don't want to store it in sealed metal containers as it can make the rounds more dangerous in a fire.

That could turn it into a bomb, not recommended

 

[Magellann]

In a cupboard in the laundry room........worked for 35 years so far and many more to come. What happens if your ammo gets wet in the field? You going to throw them out?

Keep it simple and dry.

RB

Ive used wet ammo many times out in the field.It always goes bang.

 

[silverfoxdj]

In a cupboard in the laundry room........worked for 35 years so far and many more to come. What happens if your ammo gets wet in the field? You going to throw them out?

Keep it simple and dry.

RB

Even the old time shooters knew to "keep your powder dry"

 

[underscore]

Thats just a myth, it was proven that live rounds are not that dangerous in a fire.

If they're able to vent then yes, but apparently in a sealed metal container they can create an explosion.

 

[shawn]

If they're able to vent then yes, but apparently in a sealed metal container they can create an explosion.

Unless there is literally no room between the round and the container you are wrong

Shawn

 

[CaribooBC]

Who stores ammo, I shoot it, then buy more! LOL

 

[kamlooky]

Them long range shewterzs always store their ammo neat and prawper.
That's how dem dere tite grewps 'appin.
If'n yewse store yer ammo awll lewse'n slawppy, well dat's oww dem grewps
don't make titen glowber leafs.
Ammo hazz a memery yah knows.

 

[Robert Nicholson]

Them long range shewterzs always store their ammo neat and prawper.
That's how dem dere tite grewps 'appin.
If'n yewse store yer ammo awll lewse'n slawppy, well dat's oww dem grewps
don't make titen glowber leafs.
Ammo hazz a memery yah knows.

That explains alot! No more sloppy storage for me.

 

[underscore]

Unless there is literally no room between the round and the container you are wrong

Shawn

For the bullet to end up moving yes, I'm talking about the possibility of the pressure buildup causing the container itself to explode (how big of an explosion I'm not sure, it might just be a little poof). Personally I leave my containers cracked open to let moisture get out, sealing it up traps any moisture in the air inside the container which could condense in the winter as things cool.

 

[Tjv787]

For the bullet to end up moving yes, I'm talking about the possibility of the pressure buildup causing the container itself to explode (how big of an explosion I'm not sure, it might just be a little poof). Personally I leave my containers cracked open to let moisture get out, sealing it up traps any moisture in the air inside the container which could condense in the winter as things cool.

I can't see how leaving a water proof (air tight?) ammo can slightly open is a good idea. If the seals are good air and moisture wont get in :s
Leaving them open defeats the purpose of trying to protect /store them in a sealed ammo can
I could be wrong but my common sense doesn't agree wth yours

 

[Robert Nicholson]

I think this point about sealed ammo cans exploding, is an important subject. If your ammo cans are of the military, metal, sealed type and you are
storing them in your house - AND you have a HOT fire where the house is fully engulfed, the ammo cans may explode like bombs.

Perhaps a simple one way vent could be made by drilling a hole and covering it with rubber so that the gases can simply flare off as each round pops?