Ammo storage solutions?

[rdfact]

That would be awesome but they aint cheap.

I paid $45 for this. It's a Diebold Filesafe made in the mid 60's. Rated for 1 hour fire protection (maybe that has lessened over the years). Weighs 1,040 lbs empty. Each drawer can hold six 30 cal ammo cans with extra room on top of the cans. Digital combo lock that requires no batteries or power - it has some sort of generator built in to power the display.

[Caribouriver]

These are pretty good. Tight gasketed lid but no installed lock.

http://www.slickguns.com/product/new-us-military-storage-container-6912-cu-capacity-11997

[golfish]

50 cal ammo cans work great. Water tight, stackable, carry handle, cheap, and with a bolt drilled in them lockable to prevent casual pilfering.

Bad news is they can be stolen easily should you have a burglary.

This is what I do. I store the cans in a big steel cabinet in the garage. I don't really worry too much about them being stolen because they weigh so much.

[mlgs00]

I have a job box like the one pictured. Mine is in a downstairs bedroom along with my safe and miscellaneous shooting supplies. The job box had to be stood on end to get it through the door. Now that it is full of 50 caliber ammo cans full of ammo, it is so heavy that you couldn't move it without a forklift. No need to bolt it down if you keep it relatively full.

[bob_e95482]

[heyjerr]

Unless you're a match shooter or maybe running a Boy Scout Camp, keeping excessive amounts of live ammo in your home is a liability.

Not having enough on hand when the mere threat of another ammo ban comes along is an even bigger liability.

[thenodnarb]

Winner!

For a cheaper solution, I just picked up 4, 40mm ammo cans yesterday for $50. They stack very well, alot better than the 50 or 30 cal cans, and could hold about 7-8000 rounds of pistol/rifle ammo.

The nice thing about the worksite box is that you can bolt that thing down to the floor. Its better than a gun locker. I suppose you could bolt the ammo cans to the floor as well, but generally I don't worry about ammo as much as guns.

[baih777]

here you go. this price cant be beat. and he's local to you.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=673979

[71MUSTY]

Does she have a single sister?

Actually yes! But she's as anti as they come.

[pitbull30]

50 cal ammo cans work great. Water tight, stackable, carry handle, cheap, and with a bolt drilled in them lockable to prevent casual pilfering.

Bad news is they can be stolen easily should you have a burglary.

Chain them all together.

[MikeA04]

I have the ammo cans stacked on the top shelf in the closet.
And a few at the foot of the bed my wife keeps kicking in the middle of the night

[hoss_hk]

^^^
That's basically what I use. Only problem is if a thief mistakes it for a box of tools and tries to steal it anyway. Just put it in a room where it's a pain to drag out (not the garage).

[Garand1911]

[bigbearbear]

Trap shooters I know buy shells by the flat and just stack them in the cases they came in.

That is correct, trap and other clay target shooters tend to go through a lot of ammo. Wife and I shoot rap and we average around 300 shot shells a week so we order them by the case (250 rounds).

The boxes that hold 25 rounds of 12 gauge shot shells are pretty useful if you have .223rem/5.56mm ammo. I reuse them by loading my .223/5.56 ammo into stripper clips, then store the loaded stripper clips into the shot shell boxes. Each of those box can hold 13 loaded stripper clips (130 rounds). And you can pack 10 of those boxes into a case, allowing you to stack them somewhere easily.

It looks like this:


If you go to any clay shooting range, you'll find a lot of these boxes laying around, you can pick up some good ones and use them for storage if you wish.

[JDay]

Unless you're a match shooter or maybe running a Boy Scout Camp, keeping excessive amounts of live ammo in your home is a liability.

No its not.

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