I am curious what everybody else does with their ammo stashes... I like to keep my ammo in the factory boxes as it provides lot info and it is also easier to grab a box or two to use as opposed to having to take the ammo can to the range.
Still, I know I can get about 1400-rounds of WWB 9mm in a ammo can when I leave it in the box to about 2500, rounds if the ammo was loose.
This past weekend I got tired of having three cans full of CCI Standard velocity in those space intensive plastic boxes so I dumped the rounds out into a 50-cal can. The can is nice and full and I figure it held about 4500-rds of 22LR ammo. The nice thing with that it that it was all from one case so the lot numbers were all the same.
My 5.56 ammo I normally pull out of the boxes and put them on stripper clips as stripper clips stack quite well in a 50-cal can (you can fit about 3000-rds from my estimates in a 50-cal can if they are in stripper clips).
My 9mm I still have in the white boxes... My 7,62x39 and 5,45x39 is in the original boxes as well... all stacked in ammo cans.
Oh Yea, I do have an adequate supply of loaded mags to last for at least the start of a small war. So, what do the rest of you do? Do you keep it in the box or dump it out? Just curious... The ammo stash is starting to take up too much space