I'm curious how people store their ammo?
In your safe with your guns or in another safe or someplace else.

Currently I store ammo in my gun safe.
I would like to get a small safe to store the ammo in.

I've read it's a bad idea to store with guns in case of fire.

On the shelves.not in a safe. I'd need several large safes just for that.

I have a cabinet the size of a refrigerator made from 3/4" plywood I store ammo in. Some bulk reloads go in plastic coffee cans. Shotgun shells and bulk rifle ammo are in cases or ammo cans under my workbench on shelves.

My ammo is stored in in a wooden cabinet in my garage, I do store a few rounds in the safe for quick access with the weapon associated?

Some above my workbench,some on my desk and the rest under a spare bed

Throw some loaded ammo in a fire and you will see that there is not any danger. Powder in thin metal cans will not build up enough pressure to explode. Storing powder and ammo in a safe could cause it to build enough pressure to really make a big bang. Using a safe might help keep ammo from being stolen but I am more concerned with a fire. Larry

Close to what I do.
Most of mine are stored in plastic tubs (with lids) in a spare closet.
Then the safes have a hundred rounds stored in them for each caliber.

If ever a fire...
Kids, wife, ammo, then safes, will be drug out in that order - if time.

Should add 4th choice. Both safe(s) and somewhere else.

LOL! There's also some in my car, truck, various guns, cabinets, dresser drawer, etc. It's everywhere!

I usually store it on storage racks set up in my reloading room. Bulk ammo in storage is usually in .50 cal. ammo cans.

Larry

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Wherever I can find room for it.

Very little in the safe with the guns. A couple of loaded mags for my Mini 14 just in case a rifle is needed fast. Home defense gun is a 12G shot gun and that has a bandoleer close by.

Most others is in many GI ammo cans on a bunch of shelves. .22 bricks are on their own shelf, but they’re not in cans!

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I don't store a lot of loaded ammo, normally I load it as I need it so I may have a couple of thousand rounds lying around at any given time. For storage I use an old file cabinet in the gun room (just make sure to empty the loaded ammo from the front of the drawer first so it won't tip over if I pull the drawer all the way out )

It's not in a safe, but I keep the ammo locked up in an old 4 drawer file cabinet.

The cabinet is probably from the 1940's and is made from thicker steel with a better lock the most current, cheap file cabinets.

It will at least keep kids out, and perhaps slow down thieves, although they could take the whole cabinet if they really wanted to.

In a dry room.

In ammo cans.

Same as the Army.

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Wow did not consider an ammo safe would go boom in a fire

I store mine locked in an old 4 drawer filing cabinet I picked up 2nd hand.

No room in The Safe,My ammo is stored inside the house in GI Ammo Cans.

Most in ammo cans, the Military kind. I do keep some stored in every gun except my SXS.

Why would you need to put your ammo in a safe? The guns of course but the ammo?

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Military ammo cans and then store the cans inside a large heavy duty plastic container that is lockable. I keep the container indoors and covered with a tablecloth so it looks like part of the furniture in a guest room. None of my house guests have ever really noticed it.

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GI Ammo cans stacked under my loading bench. No need to keep in a anything like a safe, (Unless you live in a real crime area).

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Not in safe. In GI Ammo cans. And some in the guns stashed around the house.

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Short answer: Both. The majority of my ammo is locked away in a dedicated wooden box. My overflow ammo is kept in one of my gun safes.

GI ammo cans, placed in a lockable Job Box that is anchored to the concrete slab beneath....

In a walk in closet.

I bought a used jobsite box off Craigslist for cheap from a construction business that went under. I put the ammo in GI ammo cans and the cans in the box.

The actual reason I use it, is it was "too good a deal" to pass up (don't dare laugh, most of you have bought stuff for the same reason) and it was sitting there empty. So I put the ammo in it to get that out of the way. It actually worked out quite well.

It keeps things neat, out of sight, relatively secure, safe from water (not all of it is in ammo cans), easy to get to, etc. Pretty much it's now the "Main Magazine".

I used to keep it in an old metal wall locker. That was too narrow, so you had to stack everything and invariably what you needed was on the bottom. With the jobsite box, it's spread out enough that even if you had enough ammo that you needed to stack it, there's still plenty of room to easily get at what you need to.

Where did you get those stickers?

Den clothes closet that I have taken over and made my ammo closet. The room has heat and air. Some in metal ammo cans and the rest in original boxes.

I store most of my ammo in the safe I have my guns in and some of it in a smaller safe. I wish I could afford a large safe just for ammo. Since I cannot, at this time, I store most of my ammo with my guns. It is a strong safe and I'd rather have the ammo in a safe, than somewhere in a closet or some shelves, where it can be easily had!