Divided Water-Resistant Utility Ammo Crate with Snap Latch and Stackable Design, Dark Earth
$ 19.80
Categories: , Steel Drums
Brand: Simms
Just like all of the positives said, it’s a good deal. I would buy this again, it’s a very nice box and it does do exactly what it says it will do, for me, anyway. I used my $15.00 I had on my credit card points and so it only cost me $1.93, so I am happy about that. I was thinking about waiting until AFTER the New Year to get it, then I saw that it was discounted for Christmas (or, not) and maybe I needed to get it at the price now, which just a little over $15.00… It’s entirely possible that the price was upped BEFORE Christmas, but, we’ll see, if it is lower AFTER Christmas, then I will pprobably get another. At any rate, it’s worth $15.00 for sure, it’s a really nice size too, at least for what I have planned, storing gun related things in it, maybe even some ammo in some MTM ammo cases, which, I also love. I have not noticed anyone talking about the colors, Flat Dark Earth (FDE) is one of the hardest colors to stabilize I have found. It’s always all over the place, sometimes Coyote Brown is called FDE. This time though, I am pretty happy, I have a KelTec 2000 that has some FDE on it, they match pretty close. It’s not like it’s THAT important, but when you buy stuff it’s always better if the colors match, rather than not. Tacky is still tacky… The dividers do not bother me, I read where some said they are disappointed, it’s fine for my purposes, although, I can relate to what was said. My thoughts on that is, if you look CLOSER you can see some ways to remedy that. (See my (5) pictures) Grab one of the partitions and try and place it anywhere, you will quickly see that it’s not going to fit right, not yet, anyway. The ‘guides’ that the partitions insert into are spaced evenly, but looking closer you will see other options. Try and place the partition in places that you can squeeze it into. Doing this, you can tell that there are rectangular ‘bumps’ on each side of the “guides” on the VERTICAL walls. Insert the partitions into areas that DO NOT have that the “bumps”. The partitions will fit. The downside is, on the bottom of each partition it is not supported as it is when inserted into the guides, but, it’s better than nothing. (My explanations probably make this harder than it is, if so, just look at the pictures) There are places that ARE supported though, keep looking and you can see areas right next to the guides that you can insert the partition and it works fine and IT IS supported. The drawback is, you just can’t do that anywhere that you might want them. Anyway, play around with that information and see what you come up with, I don’t have a real need to move the partitions so without placing things in there I can’t foresee it all. I took some pictures to hopefully explain it all a little better. There are 5 pictures (Numbered in the center in RED) _______________________________________________________________________________________ (1) I start out showing how you can fit ‘some things’ in it by repositioning the partitions. Notice the GREEN boxes showing the partitions and their guides. _______________________________________________________________________________________ (2) I show the box in this example with the NORMAL SPACING of the partitions in place and how it looks with some of my random stuff in it. If you notice, the LARGE BLUE box of .22 ammo doesn’t fit. (I apologize, I have TWO blue boxes of .22 ammo, the large one has the ammo facing downward, so it ‘may’ get kind of confusing) _______________________________________________________________________________________ (3) In this example, the LARGE GREEN box of ammo is too large to fit even still, it’s actually too long AND too wide to fit into the original spacing of the partitions. _______________________________________________________________________________________ (4) I removed ONLY ONE partition on the left, it is STILL too long and too wide to fit without removing the middle partition. Please notice that only ONE partitions was removed. _______________________________________________________________________________________ (5) After removing the middle partition, the LONG GREEN ammo box now fits. I moved the middle partition over to the right NEXT to the guide less than 1″, it will be good enough for most people I would think if used this way. It won’t be perfect, but it is stable enough to have more stuff that you want in the box without cutting, drilling, or whatever… Also, PLEASE NOTE that the LARGE GREEN ammo box is now laying flat on the bottom and I have stacked *** 200 .22 LR on top of it. *** The GREEN BOX underneath appears to be TWO boxes, it’s just segmented, it has two lids, but is only one box. It’s also a MTM brand ammo box for 9mm ammo. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ***NOTE*** If you have the BLUE MTM 100 count 9mm boxes you can place 200 .22’s in there, place one normally, then add the second one in the same hole but pointed downwards. You can always do that with ANY brand of ammo boxes. All it is, you just stick TWO bullets into the area where one bullet would go. (That part was another REVIEWERS helpful tip) That is one way, but I just have them ALL facing downwards, when you do it like this it creates a pretty round pattern. You’re welcome! I really, REALLY hope that you find this useful and I didn’t confuse you, it was even complicated for me to make this, so I hope that you are smarter than I am!

