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Where do you guys keep you ammunition, your own reloads and factory also? Do you keep it in a safe with your guns, a lockable cabinet separate from your guns, plastic ammo storage boxes, where? Probably been asked before but I was lazy and didn't want to try to search for it?
 
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Stacked on shelves. Spending money on a large enough safe to store my ammo would seriously dig into my ammo funds and I would probably have to buy a new one every year. So....just on shelves

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I have some cabinets where the bulk of it lives, however, the correct answer is ... everywhere
Life taught me a few things about the care and feeding of firearms.
I bet everyone with a 1911 knows exactly where it is, right now, at this moment.
the 45 ACP ammo to use in it .... not so much. Im sure they'll drum some up in 2 min or less, but they'll have to think about it.

If I run mine dry, I'll have to dive across the room in the worst case .... most others will have to bolt down the hall and negotiate a flight of stairs for a reload.
 
Jacketed ammo wherever it is convenient, don't have any "factory" ammo. Cast bullet ammo stays in the house when temp is controlled.

I'm a "slob shooter" when it comes to storage. I use ammo cans, metal coffee cans, cardboard boxes, baggies just about anything but a cartridge box.

If I'm out to impress, I'll use a plastic 50 round tray from handgun ammo and fill 2 to 10 and go to the range.
 
I am to lazy to answer this.:D

Where ever I can find space, it is in one room though. No special treatment as we are air conditioned 13 months of the year.:eek:
 
I mostly shoot 9mm, the minor power factor stuff is put into the 50 round cardboard boxes (that I scrounge from the trash cans at the range) Then I stack those full boxes in an old filing cabinet I got at Goodwill (or Salvation Army, I forget which) My major power factor is stored in either the 100 round plastic boxes, or in an old shaving kit bag (the kind with a zipper). I only have a thousand or so of these loaded at any one time, I make them as I need them. I use the plastic boxes to transport the ammo to and from the matches and to keep track of how much ammo I have (and when I need to make more) I dump the boxes into the shaving bags. I find that it's easier to reload mags if I can reach into the bag and come out with a handful of rounds, much quicker than "chicken picking" them out of the boxes one at a time.
 
Most ammo kept in our tornado shelter, beneath my study where the gun safes are.
 
Mine is just in my reloading room, but all is in ammo cans. I started using cans when my house burned. I only trusted it for range ammo since it all got soaked, not to mention who knows what kind of heat.
 
In plastic ammo boxes in my gun cabinet; the guns are in the safe.
 
G.I. ammo cans stacked under my loading bench. And, several loaded magazines, speed loaders, moon clips alongside where all the guns are stored inside my vault.
 
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A local school remodeled and I was able to pick up a half dozen steel lockers. I built shelves for them, so each caliber has its own place. They are all in the basement, where the temp and humidity is fairly constant. All are padlocked and alike keyed. My primers and powder are kept the same way.

The guns are in a safe on the second floor, separate from the ammo. Except for a few select revolvers with compatible speed loaders, but I won't tell you where they are at.....LOL.
 
Factory ammunition is kept in ammo cans and spread all over the house. If I put it all against one wall it would end up in the basement where there is a considerable amount anyway. Reloads are kept on shelves in my reloading room. FWIW, I also keep component bullets in ammo cans spread around the house.

The weight adds up.
 
My wife drinks coffee(I'd rather drink beer but like they say:''different strokes for different folks'')so I have lots of large cans.One can will hold aprox 500 to 600 rds of .38Spl.More or less depending on the caliber.I fill up a can with,on top of the rds an old business card(have hundreds of them;had lots of customers!)with the load(bullet weight, grains of what type of powder and year of reloading so as to be able to rotate my stock).The coffee can has a plastic lid.I could seal the lid with tape but a can will normally get used within 2 years.Since they all are in my loading shop with controlled temperature and humidity,I don't see the use of taping the lids.

Wanted to buy plastic boxes for them but I changed my mind after a quick inventory of what I needed(6K 9MM;10K 38Spl;2K .357 Mag;1.5K .44Mag;.75K .41Mag;1.5K 45 Colt;5K .45ACPand my usual stock on .22 around 10K.I'll spare you my rifle calibers).
The evening before shooting day,I get in my shop and fill a few plastic boxes from the calibers I'm gonna shoot the following morning.

And when I'm back,I dump the empty brass into...you guessed it,some other properly identified cans where it'll wait to get cleaned in the tumbler to get recycled...ooups!am I getting too politically correct here?reloaded again.
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It's ridiculous really. Loading room/shop, cabinet in the bedroom, and some (not too much) in the gun locker. Sometimes I get a wild hair to go straight to the range after work so there's the stash in the pick-up too:P. The guys at work think it's hilarious when I drive in and open my door and empty shell casings clatter out.
 
Looks like I'm in the same boat as most everyone here, I seem to have ammo all over the place. I do keep a couple of metal army ammo cans full of 45 acp's. A gun cabinet with the drawers full, on top of my dresser, on a shelf in the clothes closet, in the garage and a few boxes of 9s in the truck with an old 5903 that sleeps there. I guess I am an ammo slob.
 
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