Looking for the best place to buy military ammo cans. This is a request from a friend who is looking; I collected all I will need over the years.
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Tony
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Looking for the best place to buy military ammo cans. This is a request from a friend who is looking; I collected all I will need over the years.
Moderators, please move this thread if I posted in the wrong place.
Tony
Vendors will periodically have sales on case lots of them. It’s usually easier to find them locally for less money. Shipping them adds a lot to the cost in most instances. If he’s looking for a pallet lot 30 cal cans can be had for around $5-$6 each.
I have bought from these guys http://valhalladistributing.com/?page_id=7
Do not remember what shipping was
Both Harbor Frieght and Tractor Supply carry them, $10-$12. repainted. good tight seals. I caught HF just when they were new and cheap Bought all they had, about 40 for a little over $200. Had deal going, I new the manager, blah blah good score - good product some times have bigger than 50 ps ALL mine were 50 Bmg or bigger. 30's are just not that useful: IMHO
The HF cans aren’t made in the US and have questionable welds. You can find US made cans for the same or less money.
If you have any military bases near you watch the Military Surplus or GSA auction sites, the downside is that you may have to buy by the pallet or truckload for things like that. A few years ago a group of guys at work banded together and bought a Lot of cans. They made their money back but it took a while for them to get rid of them all.
http://m.govliquidation.com/?cmd=locations&item=home
https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/
I pick mine up at the local ( and not so local ) flea market. I paid about $8 each for them, they look brand new and the seals are tight and gaskets good. I suspect they get spirited from Ft. Benning, just across the river from here....
I have one full of .45 boolits, one full of 9mm boolits, one of .45 brass, sized and cleaned, another 2 of 9mm brass sized and cleaned, and still one with boxes of primers, with two that are empty at this time.
Hi. Midway has a sale on them now. Your profile doesn't say where you are, but occasionally, Costco sells new ammo cans...usually a set of 30 & 50 cal cans for about $15.00 IIRC. Ed
I have seen them recently at ON Target over by Kalamazoo, If you are in the neighborhood.
Guys, thanks for the responses. All fowarded to my friend.
Tony
OP, please add location to your profile. In NC the best option is gun shows.
tractor supply around here has them now and then.
I tend to buy them at gun shows.
Last I bought were off E-bay, look for offers of multiple cans. Mine were USGI 50 cal and I got 8 for about $9 each with shipping. Cans were like new. Have also found them at gun shows, but several dollars more. The pricey cans are the newer "fat" 50 cans, but they hold 50 round plastic boxes with plenty of room.
I'll 2nd the gun show suggestion.
Check your local wally world mine has the 50's for $12.88,or you can order on line and free pick up at the store.
Psa.......
Local surplus stores. Ours has 'em by the pallet full but the guy prices 'em at $20. I have almost no doubt, however, that he'd be flexible on the price if I were the ask.
--Wag--
last i bought them, i picked up a whole case of 30cal cans,new from aim surplus. decent price, as they give a break on case quantity.
Lots of discussion about the new cans from HF and several others. To me, they serve the same purpose and you don't have rust, dents, scratches, labeling, faded paint, and bad seals. Use discount cupon and their cheaper than genuine.
BJ's near me had them last week, $15 for a set of two: One .50 and one .30 cal. Yeah, Chinese-made but they were rock-solid.
If you are only looking for a few the Sportsman Guide during sales and during a free shipping deal.
I’ve bought from valhalla as well. Cans were good, solid cans. I’m just using them for good storage containers. Wait until cyber Monday, I’m sure someone will have some on sale.
Numrich has pallet lots of cans right now. No shipping quote available immediately on the website. 50 cal cans are $7.35, 30 cal are $5.45 before shipping.
Harbor freight has the small ones for 3.99 right now
I bought 30 cal cans for $8 each plus shipping. I bought like 30 of them.
I use them to store my reloaded pistol ammo
dragon813gt - I only saw higher prices on https://www.gunpartscorp.com/, is this in an email special or ?
Best place to buy ammo cans was 1975.
Great Western Gun Show
.30cal one dollar each, 6 for 5 bucks, 15 for $12
.50cal two dollars each 3 for 5 bucks, 10 for $13
Double wide .50's & 40mm, 4 bucks each.
I made 8 trips out to my Bug, bought all that would fit.
No, it’s for pallet lots and is on their site.
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/group/ammocan-pallet-33
If you have a Tractor Supply Co. in your area they have fairly inexpensive ammo cans new. I didn't ask but high probability of then being chinese made. They look just like the original GI cans and are within fractions of an inch of being the same size as the GI ones, I didn't measure them but they are very close if not exact.
Wal mart has had them as low as $9.98, mostly $12.98. US made, but fit is way worse than the HF Chinese made, which you can get most months with super coupon for $12.99, or with 20% off for $12.79 all the time. I think limit was about 6 with super coupon, or only one with 20% off.
I bought some last year for about $10 each at gunshow, which was a bit more than new. Lot were pretty beat up and rusty.
I was told that Tractor Supply cans are of bad quality with incomplete welds and most are not water tight because of that. Same friend tested Harbor Freight metal cans which didnt take water according to him. I'm guessing both are probably made somewhere in china. Best metal ones were from yard sale from a wife of a vet that brought few home with him from Vietnam. Old but beats the hell out of the new thin ones.
I would take old surplus cans over the new ones any day.
I picked up a few 30 cal cans at a somewhat local surplus store for $10 each. They usually take some money off when you buy four or more but they didn’t today [emoji20]
Cans are used but practically new. No rust, no markings besides the normal content paint, seals are perfect and they close up tight. Compared to others they had these were a steal. They had ones that were in really poor shape and placards taped to them. I didn’t “need” any more cans but I won’t pass up ones in this condition.
Definitely not the deal that the case lots of 50 cal cans was that I bought awhile back. Those were $7 a can shipped. PSA needs to run another sale on them. But this time it needs to be 30 cal cans [emoji23]
dragon813gt - Thank you.
Are you a member of a range that rents to agencies for qualifications and training? They leave stuff in the trash or on polite request. Brass and ammo cans are common at my range. No live ammo, such a pity.
Gun and sporting goods auctions. I bought two fat 50's at one a few year agos, for $12 each, Should have bought them all.
Been back every year since but they don't always have the fat 50. Plenty of 30's and 50's.
Runnings has plastic fat 50 and I have a couple of them but don't recall the price.
Have many of the Plastic cans from Harbor Freight. I think if they could get the fat 50's they would sell a lot of them.
I use one of the plastic fat 50's to hold the Chrono with the printer and extras. Like the adapter to hook it to a 12 volt battery, Those 9 volts get expensive.
Leo
I get them free, lol.
I won't buy new ammo cans, hard to know who made them. See them at wal mart, but come on its wal mart, like they would source such a thing in the US when Chinese made is cheaper? Harbor freight, etc all gonna be the same. China is a metric country, metric sheet metal is not the same as US gauge. Its either to thick, or to thin. Why dimensions can be off, you wonder why ammo boxes fit in one but not another.
The gouging local shop has 30 cal cans for almost $30, but then a bigger 40mm can is only $30.
Genuine US military at Sportsman Guide. Wait for coupons, sales or free shipping and the price ain’t bad.