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Originally posted by esdunbar:
If you can store your magazines individually then you don't have enough mags!

Seriously though, why foam in between?.

I’m watching this thread with interest. I want something like the OP describes for work magazines. We have a big box of training magazines and a box with foam slots would help me do a quick visual inventory at the end of a day teaching officers.

Some ideas to do it yourself, but no foam really.

https://www.usplastic.com/cata...=537&clickid=popcorn

ordered a few MTM storage cans, should be here today. I think I like the idea of vertical, orderly mag positioning.

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
gallon ziploc bags with magic marker labels *shrug*

THIS, although I'm more partial to TWO gallon ziplocks and Sharpie pens myself. They reside in a couple of lockable drawer tool chests. I initially started with plastic bins for those bagged mags, then moved to a "retired" Craftsman chest, then ran out of room and wound up finding and buying a larger, used Home Depot Husky brand drawer tool chest to supplement. I admit that I had a hell of a time making enough space for that second chest. Too much stuff in my cramped shop...need a bigger house. Mag (and ammo) storage was the tipping point.

My spares just live in boxes that I have computer inventories for. The ones that get handled more and I want to protect to a degree are stored in small individual plastic bags like these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod..._title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

MTM mag case by Trevor Gilliam, on Flickr

This is a good start. If I were designing this I would take most of the padding out in between the mags. You could probably fit 5 more mags in the case.

Are we storing magazines or heirlooms here.

I use the MTM Cans just for range transport. They are an easy way to keep track of the mags and prevent them from getting lost. Its easy to see an empty slot and know you are minus a mag.
Cheap insurance.
For long term storage I bought a scratch and dent 5 drawer tool chest from Lowes cheap.
Works great and easy to organize.

This would be great if it was made for the MTM cans
MY CASE BUILDER 24 Pistol Magazine Foam Insert - Ammunition Mag Storage for .50 Caliber Ammo Cans - 3 Piece Set Pre-Cut Military Grade Polyethylene Foam (Ammo Can Not Included) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P..._api_i_rPQ4EbP7456XQ

^^^^^^

It is


https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod..._title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Oooohhhhhhh

There are different answers. If you have a P210, you pay a bunch of attention to your mags. Aftermarket is just junk. You buy the real McCoy and then take care of them. I tend to keep mine in a library card catalog cabinet. Lots of drawers and easy to label.

I have no idea how the military does it. I consider their methods, but then I also remember they don't pay for their mags, we supply them free. But my dad spent some time in the early 1940s vacationing for Uncle Sugar. He had some liberated (I think that's the polite term) 1911 mags, each wrapped in a nice oil paper and fully loaded with ball ammo. He decided to croak in 1980 and I inherited the stuff my brother didn't want.

All those 40 year old mags looked and functioned good as new. Could have been magic. And the paper could have really been vapor paper. I don't know. I do know that it worked for us. We were poor, or my dad was cheap. The idea of A/C was just out of the question. No one had it. Translates to sleeping hot and sweaty. But the roof didn't leak and his closet was dry, just humid. Wish I still had some of those.

It also means I don't believe that mag springs (as much quality as the Gummint supplied) don't go bad and ammo is better than milk at staying good). Paper provides some cushion I guess. But then the brighter of us don't rattle our high dollar mags around. A good practice, one poo-poo'd by the OP here, is to stack them head to toe. Loaded or not, it doesn't really matter. They just stack better that way.

I don't like aerosol solvents much, but it works good on recently used mags. Then oil. Keeps the crap down and the rust away. But being generous with the oil leads to drippage, and depending on how you store them, and oil bath at the bottom of the container. To me, clean and oiled is better than dry and dirty. All things to consider when selecting storage.

Some of you guys have a hell of a lot of mags. I am impressed.

Here’s how I’ve been doing it the last couple years; but I don’t have all that many magazines yet either.