How do you store your ammo?

[Arctic Dave]

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As a kid we used to keep several thousand rounds of ammo and reloading equipment in our house in a bedroom down the hall from were we slept. When I look back, the possibility of something going from bad to worse was very real.

[pacalo]

1. Inside one of these babies...

[SteveM]

8. Just one? (nt)

[ManiacJoe]

2. With all their protective clothing the firemen should have been fine.

Ammo just pops like a firecracker when it is outside a gun.

However, any notable quantity of black powder or smokeless powder for reloading your own ammo would be a different case.

[Statistical]

3. Myth busters and a bunch of other people have done experiments to prove there is minimal risk

When loaded in a chamber the cartridge is reinforced by the chamber and thus all the gas pushes the small bullet at high velocity to escape.

When not reinforced by a chamber the cartridge simply "pops" either the round moves at extrememly low velocity or the case splits, or the primer blows lose. Their is nothing to reinforce and focus the force.

If you want extra security store ammo in a wooden chest. Not airtight prevents pressure buildup and the wood will contain any low speed fragments.

Now a gun w/ round in chamber is another story. Sufficient heat will "fire" the gun and it will operating like a normal firearm in that instance.

Only weapon I keep loaded in a self defense weapon in a gun vault and it due to positioning of the gunvault it is pointed in a safe direction (through back wall on second story into our large backyward).

[slackmaster]

4. Ammo cans, sealed tins, wooden crates, cardboard boxes

Whatever is handy.

[jeepnstein]

5. Plastic containers.

I use large plastic toolboxes. They don't rust and won't hold up well in the case of a fire that starts cooking off rounds. Wooden crates are also very good.

Cooked rounds don't hurt when they hit you.

Reloading supplies are a different story. A good stash of powder can really accelerate a fire. Same goes for paints and solvents, gasoline, olive oil, moonshine, Coleman fuel, or whatever else you have lying about the home.

[Hoopla Phil]

6. I prefer the cardboard boxes for my rifle ammo. Plastic cases for handgun ammo.

[virginia mountainman]

7. My protocols

I store most of my ammo in sealed military ammo cans, my reloads in plastic boxes.

Smokeless Reloading powder is not explosive, heck, you can barely get it to burn with open flame! And the cans are designed to literally fall apart, so no pressure can build (that is what makes it explosive)

But be careful with Perodex or black powder, that stuff will go up like a roman candle.

My storage is against moisture and humidity more than anything. I do store my primers in another location.

[SteveM]

9. In heavy wooden box with padlock; the rest is in a revolver (nt)

[east texas lib]

10. Strangely enough, I use ammo cans (surplus)...

However, about twenty years ago I temporarily "stored" some .22 cal ratshot in a couple of the local
thugs in my home town.:o

[SteveM]

12. Stored in their bottom drawers, you say? (nt)

[east texas lib]

13. Yes, indeed!

Among other places.;-)

[Xela]

11. Separate from the firearms

I keep a couple of boxes of .45 ACP and 7.62x39 in stripper clips along with my socks.

Rifles are secured in a closet. Pistols in condition 1 somewhere by the bed.

Xela