Labeling your ammo cans, using obscure names for the Caliber....

[BigMoose]

Okay maybe I am weird, (or maybe it's because I have too many Berettas). or perhaps I am just a wisearse..

But I thought it would be interesting to label all my Ammo cans with obscure names for the Caliber.

So I have.. from smallest to largest,

22 RF
7.65 Browning
9MM Corto/Scurt
9MM Parabellum
16 Bore
12 Bore

The I have my US calibers marked
Cartridge, Caliber .45, Pistol
Cartridge, Caliber .30, Carbine
Cartridge, Caliber 5.56 mm
Cartridge, Caliber 7.62 mm
Cartridge, Caliber .30, Rifle
Grenade, Rifle, 22MM (Before someone freaks out, these are ALL parachute flares! or dummy trainers, but still considered by the Army as part of the assortment of Rifle grenades)

I guess I started doing this because the wife wanted to shoot one of my smaller Berettas and went into the old coal bin (yes a COAL BIN, my house is that old that it had a coal bin) where the ammo storage is and asked me. Hey where the hell is the 7.65 Browning?

But I am sure if anyone else went in there, the first words out of their mouth is. What the hell is 7.65 Browning?

 

[STFU]

Ummm yeah, that would never work for me. I am too CDO:

 

[Lpherr]

Ummm yeah, that would never work for me. I am too CDO:

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Uhmm...
My OCD wonders what collateralized debt obligation has to do with ammo?

 

[STFU]

Uhmm...
My OCD wonders what collateralized debt obligation has to do with ammo?

CDO = Compulsive Disorder Obsessive
(alphabetical, the way it SHOULD be!)

 

[92FSTech]

Ummm yeah, that would never work for me. I am too CDO:

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That's beautiful, love the lighting! Mine is not quite so organized.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

That's beautiful, love the lighting! Mine is not quite so organized.

I'd need about 4 or 5 more just like that, but that would be sweet!

 

[Gunmetalgray]

the wife .... asked me. Hey where the hell is the 7.65 Browning?

Lucky man who has a wife who talks like that, lol

 

[BigMoose]

Lucky man who has a wife who talks like that, lol

Well that was what it said on the gun lol. 7.65 Browning. I kept telling her to get the 32ACP, and then i got the "Well why the hell is it not labeled that"

 

[Gunmetalgray]

Well that was what it said on the gun lol. 7.65 Browning. I kept telling her to get the 32ACP, and then i got the "Well why the hell is it not labeled that"

Ahhh, THAT sounds more familiar, lol

 

[hopper68]

Some of my calibers
Just over legal drinking age dwarf
Just over legal drinking age far away carbine
Just over legal drinking age Hawaiian PI
38 by any other name Hawaiian PI
Trump not manual horse handgun

 

[Gunmetalgray]

A flammable cabinet is nice for powder/ammo storage. Fewer ammo cans needed & everything readily visible in original boxes. CDO requires a separate shelf for SG, rifle, & handgun, then label the shelf, in descending caliber left to right. lol

 

[johntheplinker]

Ummm yeah, that would never work for me. I am too CDO:

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If you've got some, no, make that a LOT of spare time, you can come over to my place and organize mine...total chaos in my ammo fort.

 

[Titanium_Frost]

Some of my calibers
Just over legal drinking age dwarf
Just over legal drinking age far away carbine
Just over legal drinking age Hawaiian PI
38 by any other name Hawaiian PI
Trump not manual horse handgun

.22 short
.22 lr
.22 magnum
357 magnum
45 ACP

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Just color code. Don't have time for your fancy writing.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

Just color code. Don't have time for your fancy writing.

Falls right in line with the scheme I use in excel for tracking firearms/accessories purchased

 

[cg21]

Ummm yeah, that would never work for me. I am too CDO:

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……….. where do you keep the rest?

 

[1nderbeard]

I barely have time to organize and label what I have.

 

[STFU]

……….. where do you keep the rest?

Meh, it's a start. All of the 8# powder jugs and the 15,000 primers are on a set of shelves not pictured...

 

[STFU]

Just color code. Don't have time for your fancy writing.

I do that with reloading supplies.
Green = small primers and press parts
Red = large primers and press parts
Yellow = press parts that are common for both

 

[WebSnyper]

My line of thought is that labeling is not only for me, but to help someone else, should they need to be able to identify some of this stuff without me. I need to get to labeling and organizing ammo a bit more. I have labeled the firearms that I may store in boxes besides the one they came in (i.e. they came in cardboard and I am storing them in the safe in a plastic box for example).