It's like a big giant puzzle!

[Urbanfuturistic]

It's like a big giant puzzle! (The official storage thread)

What boggles my mind, is that I accel at Tetris, but this I can't figure out.

I saw a couple of these at a garage sale for a song, so I couldn't resist them. I haven't really had time to rearrange my ammo collection into one yet. So today I am off and figured I'd give it a shot. So for reference here is an idea of how big these are.

Most of the jobs I've had are warehouse jobs, so stacking sort of comes naturally for me, but just not here.

So far I've only been able to get 36 20rd boxes to a layer. I know I can do better, I just can't figure out the optimum layout for the space provided. This is where I'm stuck at:

Any ideas?

 

[Urbanfuturistic]

Update!

Sorry for the crappy pics. I took them on my iPad in less than ideal light. But it looks like 36 is it, and this is the optimal pattern.

 

[ilintner]

My ocd nature likes it... Those are some healthy sized ammo cans!

 

[Urbanfuturistic]

Indeed they are rather large. Which is why I couldn't pass them up. I have decided that one could fit about five layers of 20rd boxes of 7.62x39 into one of those cans for a staggering total of 3600+ rds. It's heavy now though and I only have 2200 in there so far, with a few boxes of .38spl and .223 mixed in for good measure.

I can't decide though if I want to use the other one for storage of mags and misc accessories and sell my smaller ones, or sell the larger one and keep the smaller ones for mag and misc duties.

By the by, fr what it's worth, I think that this shall now be the official storage thread.

 

[gunnerxxx]

urban if you live in the area, let me be the first to say that id buy the large ones from you. Gunnerxxx Crestview,fl

 

[Army_of_One]

Indeed they are rather large. Which is why I couldn't pass them up. I have decided that one could fit about five layers of 20rd boxes of 7.62x39 into one of those cans for a staggering total of 3600+ rds. It's heavy now though and I only have 2200 in there so far, with a few boxes of .38spl and .223 mixed in for good measure.

I can't decide though if I want to use the other one for storage of mags and misc accessories and sell my smaller ones, or sell the larger one and keep the smaller ones for mag and misc duties.

By the by, fr what it's worth, I think that this shall now be the official storage thread.

Load the mags then store them in the large cans.

 

[Gravity3694]

I prefer small 50 cal cans. 1000 rounds of 5.56 on stripper clips with spoon fits pretty close to full.