How do you store your EBR's and Ammo

[Dollar]

should I be worried about keeping my ammo in thier boxes but stored inside ammo cans?

[Ravenslair]

Whats the story with the golden rod? Is it just your back up pimp cane or does it serve a purpose?

Hell no its not my pimp cane. That thing goes with me wherever I am! The golden rod term has become as generic as Xerox. It is a a low watt heating rod that warms and circulates the air inside your safe. Here is a link. Goldenrod is a company that makes them. Many others have followed and made their own version.

[Ravenslair]

should I be worried about keeping my ammo in thier boxes but stored inside ammo cans?

Not at all. I have ammo in its original packaging that has been stored in ammo cans for many many years with no ill effect.

[MasterYong]

I keep my ammo in the cheap ammo cans that cabela's sends free with ammo purchases. I don't order all my ammo form them, but when I do (if it's on sale) they include a liberal number of cans (sometimes 3 cans when the ammo could easily have fit in one). I left one in the rain overnight once to see if it was relatively watertight and it appears to be. Obviously not all my ammo will fit in the cans (I only have 6-7 of them) so the rest gets sealed in plastic with a pack of desiccant inside the plastic wrap just in case moisture got trapped inside when I sealed them.

Well, the above was true until I moved to AZ. It's not moist enough here for me to care really. And when I lived in FarNorCal I only used the above methods for ammo I was storing, anything I planned to shoot within 3 months just sits on the shelf. I also make sure to rotate stored ammo. So for stuff I buy in bulk like .223, .308, 9mm and others I package up the new order and unwrap older stuff to shoot that so that the shelf life of my ammo remains as long as possible.

[MasterYong]

Not at all. I have ammo in its original packaging that has been stored in ammo cans for many many years with no ill effect.

Additionally I've heard that it's highly advisable to keep the original packaging for all ammo if possible, or at least ones with different lot numbers. Sometimes (though presumably not often) ammo manufacturers have defects in their products, and those defects sometimes occur across an entire batch or lot. If you like to store your ammo loose in cans it's recommended that you don't mix and match lots and that you keep at least on box inside the ammo can that has the lot number on it.

I personally prefer to keep the ammo in orig boxes until I shoot it, that way all pertinent info form the manufacturer is preserved.