Very basic component storage question- how are you doing it?

[the86d]

until i realized coffee tubs were the best option, i was using these:

They were .99 ea at Target.

[Rockzilla]

Following along here...

Ammo Cans for brass...fill-em up, stack-em up
Fat 50's can be real heavy filled with brass, so then the 50's
work. Bullets in bulk ammo cans also, and cast boolits to only
the point where they are not - manageable, got a piss load of them
a hundred, give or take 50. Clear shoe boxes for reloading in batches,
Wally World if you catch-em .84 each, don't stack-em to high, they
will collapse. Food storage bags for completed rounds, vacuum seal...


-Rock

[Cypriss32]

I've been using priority mail medium flat rate boxes to store my brass in. I am very liberal with the tape. They stack very well too.

[dwalker]

Break out your flint and steel and try to ignite smokeless powder with a spark. It's possible, I suppose, but how do you think that's going to happen inside it's sealed container inside an ammo can? How do you propose for a primer to get ignited inside is factory container, inside an ammo can?

Seems to me loaded ammo, stored loose in that ammo can, is much more vulnerable to accidental ignition than primers in their original containers and smokeless powder in it's original container stored in an ammo can. Unless, of course, you choose to dump the powder in loose and mix in loose primers too. That would make about as much sense as admitting, in a public forum, that you made a bomb.

So, I'll write this slowly one more time so you can keep up. The rubber seal on Milsurp ammo cans are designed to melt at temperatures well below those needed to ignite ammunition. They are designed that way to keep moisture out and to allow them to vent gasses in the event they are exposed to high heat. So, it's only a sealed container when exposed to normal conditions. The obvious exception would be having some idiot intentionally detonate an known explosive device after sealing it is said ammo can.

Do what you want but ammo cans are a bad idea for storing powder. Any metal container is, thats why even back when powder companies shipped in metal cans they were specifically designed so that they would split at the seams in case the powder was lit off.

Have you ever lit off more than a few grains of gunpowder?

[HighWildFree]

6x12 concrete cylinder molds. Free from work.

[LynnJr]

I tried the 5 gallon buckets and the entire garage gets choked.
I switched to 55 gallon drums because you can put a steel lid on them.

[acoop101]

I use square five gallon buckets since they waste less space for pistol brass and rifle calibers like 223 which I load in bulk.

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