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  • #1
    Maverick831
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    • Nov 2008
    • 432

    Ammunition storage

    I just wanted to get more peoples opinions on this. When storing ammo in an ammo can should I leave them in their cardboard boxes and then store them in the can or store them loose? I have a bunch of Lake City xm193's and I'm trying to figure out how I should store them. If it help I do not plan on shooting this ammo any time soon.. so they are going to be stored over a long period of time. Thanks everyone
    "As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
    - Winston Churchill

    "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
    - George Washington, 1790
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    • #2
      Maverick831
      Member
      • Nov 2008
      • 432
      Also when storing ammo on stripper clips should I store them in the 30 round cardboard boxes or not? or does it even matter?
      "As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
      - Winston Churchill

      "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
      - George Washington, 1790

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        • #3
          nagorb
          Veteran Member
          • Jul 2008
          • 4355
          From what I remember from past discussions it doest matter if its loose or in boxes just put a desiccant pack in it.

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            • #4
              Maverick831
              Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 432
              Originally posted by nagorb
              From what I remember from past discussions it doest matter if its loose or in boxes just put a desiccant pack in it.
              Yeah that's what I thought to but on another thread a member told me that leaving them in the boxes allows moisture to build up and keeping them in the can locks the moisture inside. Right now I have them stored in the boxes with desiccant packs.

              Does anyone know how long desiccant packs are good for?

              I've also heard the cardboard absorbs moisture and better to leave it in.. is that true?
              Last edited by Maverick831; 03-24-2009, 12:52 AM.
              "As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
              - Winston Churchill

              "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
              - George Washington, 1790

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                • #5
                  JDay
                  I need a LIFE!!
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 19393
                  Originally posted by Maverick831
                  Does anyone know how long desiccant packs are good for?

                  I've also heard the cardboard absorbs moisture and better to leave it in.. is that true?
                  Desiccant packs go bad? I wouldn't worry about the cardboard absorbing moisture as that is what the desiccant packs are there for. Throw your ammo in there however you want and it will be fine.
                  Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison

                  The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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                    • #6
                      smle-man
                      I need a LIFE!!
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 10582
                      The only problem I've seen for long term storage in boxes is that the acid in some cardboard can corrode the brass over a period of time. I have some Portuguese 7.62 from the 80s that has tarnished cases where the cases rested on the cardboard. Some Greek .30-06 has the same issue.

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                        • #7
                          ripcurlksm
                          Veteran Member
                          • Dec 2006
                          • 3146
                          when it gets full with the boxes stacked, I dump it out loose into the can. Throw some rice in there to keep it dry
                          Kevin

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                            • #8
                              Beelzy
                              Calguns Addict
                              • Apr 2008
                              • 9224
                              When dessicant crystals turn brown they aren't bad, just fully saturated.

                              They can be rejuvinated by warming in the oven at low temp, they will
                              turn back to their white/clear color.
                              "I kill things for a living, don't make yourself one of them"

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