Like NJMike said: ammo sits on shelves in “cardboard Boxes”. and dose not go bad.
I have used 5 gal buckets w/gamma lids, painted the buckets and lids flat black (just to help hide them) this may have helped to seal the buckets, with silica bags in them.
They sat under a work bench on a shelf in the MICHIGAN garage with 4 season of hot to cold for over :::15 years::: . This spring I did an overhaul (cleaning) of the garage and decided to change out the buckets to ammo cans, a lot easier to move, and I believe much safer, If I had a fire the buckets would melt but the ammo cans should hold up a little longer.
After my long winded story, I tried some of the ammo out, before I sealed it in the ammo cans and it worked just fine.
I have some head stamped “1942” 8MM ammo that are in clothe bandolier’s and a wood ammo crate, and it works just fine.
If you do store ammo in a bucket like this, don’t store it on the cement or ground put some 2×4’s under them so they don’t leach moister in. “Remember your other topic” on basement moister.
I did leave all the ammo in the original cardboard box’s when stored.
This worked for me, I’m sure others will have thier own opinion.
Statistics: Posted by handyman777 — Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:47 pm