Ammo and water

[piefairy]

With another hurricane coming, this one likely to be a direct hit, it brings to question what to do with my ammo. I will most likely have to evacuate for the storm, so I have to do something ahead of time. If they get wet it will only be "fresh" water. Will it kill the ammunition? I doubt I will flood, but water may get in the house through broken windows ect. I keep my ammo on the floor under my bed, I'm planning to put it on a table or something, but will wet ammo be an issue? Should I put it in trash bags or something?

[breakingtime91]

With another hurricane coming, this one likely to be a direct hit, it brings to question what to do with my ammo. I will most likely have to evacuate for the storm, so I have to do something ahead of time. If they get wet it will only be "fresh" water. Will it kill the ammunition? I doubt I will flood, but water may get in the house through broken windows ect. I keep my ammo on the floor under my bed, I'm planning to put it on a table or something, but will wet ammo be an issue? Should I put it in trash bags or something?

I would try to weather proof it. Somewhere high snd coveted in trash bags seems like easy insurance

[Joe in PNG]

I'd suggest milsurp ammo boxes, but I don't know if you'll have the time to get any before the storm hits.

Some sort of large, sealable plastic container would also work, like a 5gal bucket with a gamma type lid. Maybe hit your local Rural King or Tractor Supply and see what's available & cheap.

[piefairy]

Storm hits Tuesday. There is already no gas in the area, so ammo cans are out of the question given the timeline. That and its about 5k rounds of ammo, I hoard. I guess I'll bag it up and put it in the garage. The only place with no windows to break, so unless the roof goes, it should stay dry.

[piefairy]

Thanks for the input. Its the response I expected, but i have enough prep work already to do, was hoping for an easy out. Hopefully it misses us, but for the first time in years, I think we are in for it and it wont be pretty.

[HCM]

Thanks for the input. Its the response I expected, but i have enough prep work already to do, was hoping for an easy out. Hopefully it misses us, but for the first time in years, I think we are in for it and it wont be pretty.

If Miller ammo cans are out of the question, maybe do the best you can with garbage bags and duct tape?

[piefairy]

I'll end up resorting to trash bags. Like I said, I dont expect to flood. But we may lose windows, storm shutters ripped out of the concrete in an earlier storm. As long as the roof holds, I cant imagine more than an inch or so of water which will drain fast. I live on a lake that the level is controlled by a dam, so all should be fine on that end. Hopefully when all is over we just will be without power for a few days.

[D-der]

Maybe hit Sam's Club. Costco etc. and pick up a Food Saver with a couple of rolls for cut to fit vacume seal bags. 6 case's would proply be a dozen bag's of water tight ammo, Besides, they extend food storage really well

[Jim Watson]

Fire hose water and rain in through the burned out roof was very hard on my ammo in 2010.

S&B 9mm with the pretty red lacquer was not sealed at all; I eventually pulled it for the brass and bullets.
Aluminum Blazer 9mm was unobviously corroded, many cases split before I saw that my chamber was getting scored and pulled the remainder for the bullets. The chamber is visibly marred but not so bad as to hurt extraction.

Some WW .45 JHP leaked just enough to give me a factory stuck bullet.
Real USGI hardball was perfectly preserved.

Reloads with lead bullets were usable... usually, as were .22 LR. My criterion was that one or fewer misfires per magazine was usable for practice.

Reloads with JHPs were awful. Some .45s loaded with every powder I could find were not wetted, but they were apparently heated, the Ziplocks were crinkled. I conclude that the powder was damaged, giving excess pressure a la Slamfire, breaking two extractors before I figured out what was wrong.

[TQP]

My Costco is stocking someone's version of this https://mtmcase-gard.com/products/4-...o-crate-30-cal . I think someone here bough one, maybe they will chime in.

Do you have a cooler that you're not taking with you? Mine are pretty good at keeping stuff dry.