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Posted: 4/4/2009 7:57:00 PM EDT
| I just ordered 1000 rounds of WOlf 223 and i had a friend tell me that it will rust away.I bought it for long term storage.They are not sealed,they are in boxes of 20.I am going to store them in ammo cans.It is polymer coated.Will it still rust up with the polymer coating?What would be the best way to store the steel cased stuff? |
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put in a fresh dessicant pack and close the box, dont reopen it until you need it...
I used to live on the Gulf Coast of Texas, lots of rust. Now that I live in Phoenix, I am not sure what it looks like anymore... However, I doubt rust will be any issue with your ammo. |
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I had Wolf (9x19 Military Classic, polymer coated) start showing rust in as little as 6 months when stored in the factory cardboard/plastic wrapper. Also had Silver Bear start oxidizing after about two years. Invest in some ammo cans and desiccant. I've seen rusted Wolf myself also, was stored in a somewhat damp basement in the cardboard boxes and anywhere the case touched cardboard, there was a nice rusty streak. |
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Mine aren't loose in the ammo can. 1000 rounds will fit in the new style plastic ammo cans neatly stacked in their original packaging. If you go to a gun show there should be a seller with many different sizes.
If left in a damp environment with no precautions anything steel will rust. But doing that would just be ridiculous. If you use the ammo cans and dessicant, you shouldn't have to plastic seal them. But if you don't have dessicant available it probably wouldn't hurt. |
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So would you guys reccomend takeing the rounds out of the cardboard box and just dump them loosely in the ammo cans?Was thinking of vacume packing them with a food saver. There's nothing wrong with storing it in the boxes it came in. You don't want to dump the rounds into some container that will let the cases rub together and scrape the coating off, and as long as you control the humidity in your storage containers (something as simple to do as adding a small sack of dry rice will do the trick in most cases), the cardboard will be no problem. |
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don't get so durn, well... worried. keep in temps/humidity that you can stand...better still in a sealed army ammo can. it's worked for Unka Whiskers for about 100 years! WHOOPS! almost forgot...KEEP THE CANS UP/OFF direct contact with concrete floors (you run the risk of condensation inside container; temp differential––all that "sciientific stuff.") |
| If your Wolf was factory packed,... it should have a piece of plastic yellowish in color within the plastic sleeve. That is VCI plastic, store your ammo in 50 cal. cans with the desicants of your choice and the VCI plastic. I perfer to take the ammo out of the third world quality boxes. Seen to much old ammo corroded from contact with cardboard. Should last for a long time stored like that. |
| You would think it would rust easily, but it doesn't. I have some old chi com ammo and some older Russian ammo that have been sitting around for years. No rust problems. The cases I see on the ground at the range are certainly rusted up, But they don't seem to rust easily as new ammo. You should be GTG. |
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