The best Damn Ammo Can ever... !

[BigMoose]

Sorry Grunts, the Navy has you beat here.

The best surplus Ammo can is actually .....NAVY.

I mean the SMALL ARMS AMMO BOX MK1 MOD 0.. These things are built like a battleship, no less then six latches. They seal so tightly that after a pressure change I can pop a latch and hear the whoomph as the air inside the can equalizes with the outside.

I found mine at a peddlers mall years ago for $10 bucks.

18.5" x 14.5" x 9.25

 

[Nugget]

Looks nice.

How many of those 22 Bucket o Bullets can you empty into it at one time though? Imagine the looks on your friends faces when you invite them to the back 40 for a day of 22 plinking, and you show up with that thing stuffed to the top with loose 22 rounds, overflowing like a pirate treasure chest!

 

[ronbashop]

Sorry Grunts, the Navy has you beat here.

The best surplus Ammo can is actually .....NAVY.

I mean the SMALL ARMS AMMO BOX MK1 MOD 0.. These things are built like a battleship, no less then six latches. They seal so tightly that after a pressure change I can pop a latch and hear the whoomph as the air inside the can equalizes with the outside.

I found mine at a peddlers mall years ago for $10 bucks.

18.5" x 14.5" x 9.25

nice, never saw one like that on deployment

 

[BigMoose]

Looks nice.

How many of those 22 Bucket o Bullets can you empty into it at one time though? Imagine the looks on your friends faces when you invite them to the back 40 for a day of 22 plinking, and you show up with that thing stuffed to the top with loose 22 rounds, overflowing like a pirate treasure chest!

I keep the good expensive ammo in there. But I imagine it would hold five figures of 22.

But lifting the thing will damn near give you a Hernia with it loaded. But the Navy had no end of strong 18 year olds to move these things around..

 

[Magyars]

I have one and they are very good provided you don't have to lug it around....and all six of those dogs can be a PITA

 

[rosejm]

provided you don't have to lug it around

Yep. My back hurts just looking at it...

 

[Creedmoor]

Grab two of them in one hand and run a bit with them.
Those cans weren't designed for a Grunt to carry. They were designed for hands that are soft and aren't used to carrying ammo like Grunts do.

 

[BigMoose]

Ohh they definitely are not for field use. They are made for going on big ships.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

What were they for? Something big like 40mm Bofors rounds?

 

[Vimace]

It'd be nice to preserve the patina, depending on your preference, a satin, semi gloss or gloss polyurethane clear coat

 

[DadSmith]

Sorry Grunts, the Navy has you beat here.

The best surplus Ammo can is actually .....NAVY.

I mean the SMALL ARMS AMMO BOX MK1 MOD 0.. These things are built like a battleship, no less then six latches. They seal so tightly that after a pressure change I can pop a latch and hear the whoomph as the air inside the can equalizes with the outside.

I found mine at a peddlers mall years ago for $10 bucks.

18.5" x 14.5" x 9.25

That would be used as ammo storage in my ammo storage room.

 

[Indy574]

I think I saw some of those are Facebook marketplace.

 

[BigMoose]

Here is the cool thing I just thought of...

"CTGS 20MM for A/C Gun Mk 12 HEI"

That gun was only found on the F4D Skyray, F3H Demon, A-4 Skyhawk, F-8 Crusader, F-11 Tiger and early navy versions of the LTV A-7 Corsair II.

So perhaps I have something that would have been on our nations aircraft carriers.. pretty cool.