Looking for Ammo storage suggestions

Bought a 4 drawer filing cabinet that's also a security cabinet. Was all me and my wife with a block and tackle could do to get it up the stairs to the deck to get in the house. Might get sold with the house.
 
grumpyguy said:
Under my stairs with a solid core door and keypad deadbolt. Wife does know the combo because we store other items there but knows well enough not to admit that to the police if we get a visit, same with the safe.
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My wife has very little to no interest in firearms or the shooting sports but has an RPAL none the same. It's good insurance and knowledge base if nothing else.
 
The PA 'Plastic Ammo Cans' both 30 & 50 cal - I just drill a hole in one of the 'front corners' to accept a padlock 'shackle'. I buy PA padlocks when they're on Sale for around 4/$20 or so, and get 'keyed alike' in bunches. I've got about 25 cans but only 5-keys (some pkgs are the same key).
When guns and ammo are in the same cabinet the guns and ammo both need locks. :rolleyes: "Belt & Suspenders"
 
I prefer the metal ammo cans because there is no interior space lost by the sloping sides. The lids are thin cross section too. There is a depression on the bottom that meshes with another can stacked on top. Yes they clank, but so what?
 
Buck1950 said:
The PA 'Plastic Ammo Cans' both 30 & 50 cal - I just drill a hole in one of the 'front corners' to accept a padlock 'shackle'. I buy PA padlocks when they're on Sale for around 4/$20 or so, and get 'keyed alike' in bunches. I've got about 25 cans but only 5-keys (some pkgs are the same key).
When guns and ammo are in the same cabinet the guns and ammo both need locks. :rolleyes: "Belt & Suspenders"
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Interesting you mention this. I have always discounted the metal cans because of its weight, plus the fact they don't lock. I recently bought a bunch of someone's ammo collection and he happened to have it transported in the metal ammo tins. I thought they were included in the sale but they were not on the listing but I bought a couple of him so I don't have to dump a lot of ammo boxes into my trunk. Turns out he added a lock nubin the front where the natural hole is in the lifter. The nub has a hole in it for a combination lock, it keeps the tin secure. I never though of even trying this.

I have found that while I love using the "Magnum" poly 50 cal containers, filling them at capacity and having the enormous weight sometimes results in the plastic carrying handle coming off its recessed area when I lift it. The metal ones would not have this issue.
 
Lafar said:
What about plastic cases, like Pelican or Nanuk? Most metal ammo cans don't seem to have a lock hasp, whereas these types of cases often do.
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We use those for bulk transport in general, but ammo is still left in their factory boxes when in these cases, essentially its a glorified Rubbermaid container that stays water tight and wont fail under the weight.

This also allows us to stack better as we all have similar cases in the group and they interlock when placed in a certain way on each other, You can place two smaller pelicans on the longer rifle cases, etc.
The pelicans are part of the "range kit" they are restocked as required from the storage.
Home storage is industrial shelving unit inside a large closet, next to the safes, entire room is temperature/humidity controlled as it holds most of our outdoor gear and equipment.
Range Kit stuff being heavy goes on the floor/ first shelf under the large shelving unit. Rifle cases get emptied and go above the safes.

We ditched the foam in the rifle cases, all rifles go in independent soft cases and get tossed in the pelicans without any foam in them. The foam tends to hold moisture and there's a lot of it in BC outside of wildfire season.

Pistols are treated a bit different, similar small pelicans but they all have laser cut closed cell foam in them, very similar to the nanuk 6 UP cases, mags ammo and pistols all fit in in one their large respective cases, ammo boxes sit with them in their own open slots, it gets restocked as its consumed. (before any keyboard warriors come at me, yes this is still legal for storage and transport, pistols are trigger locked with the case being locked, and ammo storage regulations are met being in a locked case out of sight, it will be no different than the ammo being in the safe with the pistols, the CFO has confirmed this)

If you don't have the space for a setup like this, hopefully some version of it or an adaptation of it may come in handy.
 
I haven't had any 'handles' come off any of my 50-cal plastics (ca 15#) from PA, but I only carry them Up bsmt and to car, then car to firing line 50-feet or so. Not planning a bugout with a dozen 15# cans. All the locks are since I have rifles stored in the same locker, All with T-locks too.
 
brownbear53 said:
We use those for bulk transport in general, but ammo is still left in their factory boxes when in these cases, essentially its a glorified Rubbermaid container that stays water tight and wont fail under the weight....If you don't have the space for a setup like this, hopefully some version of it or an adaptation of it may come in handy.
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Appreciate all the insight, thank you.
 
Build a 2x4 frame shelf, 3/4” plywood for each shelf, pin it to the floor, put a sheet of thin plywood on a hinge, lock the other side. Depends on budget and ammo storage capacity needs. But you can build a shelf on the cheap and store mucho ammunition this way. By the time you buy multiple locks for cans, you’d likely pay for the shelf anyway. Ammo cans are great for organization and stacking. Old Czech 7.62x39 wood crates are amazing if you can find em..

But overkill if you’re securing small amounts, cheapest option for a few hundred rounds would be a plastic storage tote with 2 cable locks though the corners to the lid. Wally world and crap tire sell totes with holes at each corner for locks. I feel like securing ammunition is not as strict as firearms, you basically just need to make it secure. If a kid is over or a visitor with grabby hands… Someone would be getting a spanking if they starting smashing my storage containers lol…
 
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