Started out with MTM plastic storage bins, they were ok, very heavy when loaded and not a fan of the lid strength, they seemed to give under weight. Moved to military steel ammo cases, 1200 rounds of 9mm in a 30 cal with a couple desiccant packs and a coat of dielectric grease on the rubber seal and long term storage accomplished, all unboxed and loose. 50 cal cans work well for boxed .45acp, again not so heavy, the boxes take up a lot of room. I do probably 70% loose storage, hunting rounds stay boxed, along with Garand ammo. Fat 50 cans work awesome for Shotshell have a few of those around, I don’t look for long term storage with Shotshell, just like to be organized there.
I do have a question though, how often do you rotate stock? I have some spam cans, 30 cal and 50 cal cans that haven’t seen daylight in years. The spam cans are Russian 7.62x39 those may never be opened if I can fuel my Ak habit as I go.
Any ammo factory packaged to withstand decades of storage should be the last ammo that gets shoot up. jmo.
I am experimenting with vacuum sealing processed brass to see if removing the air retards oxidation. I have also vacuum packed 22lr in hard 100 rd bricks, ten at a time. They will be good 100 years from now providing the bag does not get punctured.
I have packed 50 cal cans with 2500 rounds of .22lr desiccant packs and dielectric grease coated seals. I’m thinking that will long outlast me, my nephews can deal with the fallout if any.
I also vacuum seal most of my ammo. Unopened cases are not touched. All primers are vacuum sealed. All ammo is stored in these locked cabinets. The area is 45% or less in a controlled humidity basement.
Just wondering, why would you unbox them all and make them loose, instead of leaving them in the factory boxes? Doesn’t having them loose make it tough to just grab a few boxes of 50 before going to the range?
Various sealed containers. Some ammo cans (in spite of my disdain for ammo cans), some stored in sturdy water tight containers. Same as all my other ammo. I like ammo cans because they are cool, but I do not like them for ammo storage because they just scream “steal me”.
I’m going to try sealing some ammo similar to how battle packs are done. Like fifteen 20 rd boxes of 223 match ammo.
Two handfuls and I’m at 50 rounds, I don’t normally open the long term storage cans, my weekly use ammo just sits in the shipping boxes and I grab those. They aren’t around long enough to worry about storage.
I have a lot of ammo in ammo cans, but all still in their original packaging. That way, if I find any that are faulty, I know everything I need to including the lot number.
I think my BIL and brother officially hated me for a year after I moved. The ammo alone was about a ton……….. Filling nice new plastic storage containers was not a good way to do it. I had to go back and buy 3x more containers so we could make the weight manageable.
I use a 48” Rigid Job Site Box for my ammo storage. I leave the ammo in factory boxes and never had any issues even after years of storage. And nobody is stealing that thing unless they bring a fork lift
Whelp, the bags I vac packed processed brass in have been punctured, all three of them. Maybe my cats got to ‘em. Dunno. Will have to look at thicker tougher bags, perhaps non-food storage bags.
