Where do you keep your reloads?

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Just wondering where you guys keep your reloads. No the exact spot. Don't give away any secrets. :) In the garage, house, etc. My reloading bench is in the garage and I leave them there but always worry about someone breaking in and taking all the ammo. I have a security system for the house so not too concerned about that. I've brought them in with me when done a few times but forget most of the time. I figured I'd ask. Just curious.
 
In magazines or ammo cans.
 
ammo boxes, cans, trays, etc. The house is AC'd so not really worried about the environmental issues, more like the logistics issues.
 
Inside baggies stacked inside 5 gallon buckets in a barn or basement. That seems to work fine. They are hard to move since a 5 gallon bucket of 45 Auto ammo is a bit heavier than my old body can easily lift. The baggies let me take out a bunch at a time so the bucket can be moved.
 
Basement, with the stuff that makes them, mostly in ammo boxes. There's also some in the garage, probably some in the truck, usually some randoms on the kitchen counter and dresser from emptying pockets, occasionally the washer when I don't.
 
Got reloads in just about every room in my house (except the kids room, no kids are up stairs any more).
 
Seriously, I don't keep a large amount of reloads on hand. I have a lot of components, but not that many loaded ammo. I keep most of my reloads in my reloading room.

Factory ammo, OTOH, I keep in the house.
 
Zip lock bags with notes for small testing amounts.

Plastic flip top boxes for several hundred rounds.

More components than reloads. I keep primers in ammo cans to keep moisture out.

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In a whole lot of pez dispensers.

Jokes aside, I store most of it in ammo cans on shelves.
 
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Ammo cans. In load room that has ac/heat.
 
I could tell you, but then I would have to dig them up and move them.

Wow! What a convenient time to have a hole pre-dug that needs filling.

Boxed and in ammo cans.

Much of it is stored in magazines.

Yup! Just last weekend I turned a bag of @Butter's 5¢ seconds and a bit over a pound of IMR-4895 and filled every spare mag. I think the only empty mags left are a bag of South Korean M1A mags.
 
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Good!

Only empty magazines I have are the ones I use for dry-fire practice.
 
In heavy duty ziploc-type bags, in ammo cans organized by caliber. All ammo is stored in my garage under video surveillance.
 
Seriously, I don't keep a large amount of reloads on hand. I have a lot of components, but not that many loaded ammo. I keep most of my reloads in my reloading room.

Factory ammo, OTOH, I keep in the house.

I did the same back before Slick Willy moved into the White House. (I wonder whether they will change the name of the White House to something less racists?) I was not loading or shooting quite as much then as I am now and would not keep many components on hand. That would cause me to run out of one or another component at times. Cases, bullets, and powder are not much good without primers. I decided a loaded round had all the components already assembled, and those components would always be usable. I started loading up about every case I had on hand. It snowballed. I do have lots of components that have not yet been assembled because I have not had the time but also have a whole bunch of complete rounds for the chamberings I shoot most often and a pretty good supply of rounds for all the other firearms. I do not want to be without ammo for any firearm I have. I do not think the burnable components will go bad any faster in loaded rounds than they will in their original containers.
 
I did the same back before Slick Willy moved into the White House. (I wonder whether they will change the name of the White House to something less racists?) I was not loading or shooting quite as much then as I am now and would not keep many components on hand. That would cause me to run out of one or another component at times. Cases, bullets, and powder are not much good without primers. I decided a loaded round had all the components already assembled, and those components would always be usable. I started loading up about every case I had on hand. It snowballed. I do have lots of components that have not yet been assembled because I have not had the time but also have a whole bunch of complete rounds for the chamberings I shoot most often and a pretty good supply of rounds for all the other firearms. I do not want to be without ammo for any firearm I have. I do not think the burnable components will go bad any faster in loaded rounds than they will in their original containers.
What you say is all true, but I’ve heard too many stories of estate sales with lots of reloads that are harder to get rid of than components. Besides, I have a lot of factory ammo stored up, that I collected before I started reloading.
 
Stacked in the reloading room of course. Some in old ammo boxes, some in plastic boxes, some in repurposed plastic containers. Peanut butter and mayo containers work well.
Some on floor, some on shelves.
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