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MTM Tactical Mag Can: A protected method of storage for loaded magazines

December 8, 2018 by Travis Pike Leave a Comment

MTM Tactical Mag Can

How do you store your magazines? I don’t mean loaded or unloaded, but where do you physically put them? It’s easy when you only have a few, you can store them anywhere. Once you get past a dozen they tend to be a pain to stack, easy to misplace, and generally stay in the way. The same goes for transport and storage in a vehicle. A range bag only goes so far. My Mini home armory was a mess of magazine, seemingly laid around in no particular order. Until my wife, the queen of organizing, went birthday shopping and purchased the MTM Tactical Mag Can.

MTM Tactical Mag Can overview

It is built like any other ammo can, but it’s wider and features foam cut outs to fit 15 magazines in a standing position. This model is made specifically for the AR style magazine, but models are available for the AK, single stack handgun magazines, and double stack handgun magazines. The MTM Tactical Mag can is easily stackable, and is almost perfectly square.

The box is a lot bigger than you’d picture and you get a healthy amount of room between magazines. You can easily insert and remove mags. The lid has two latches that snap close, and between and in the right and left of the latches have holes cut for locks.

MTM Tactical Mag Can
Double Latches and lock ready

Fits Just Right

What dictates if the MTM Tactical mag can is a winner or a loser is how the foam cuts work. Are they cut purely for mil-spec aluminum magazines? This would make them too tight for most polymer magazines. Are they cut short and the magazines easily work their way out? Then you’d have mags flopping around during transport.

The good news is the magazine cuts seem just right. I’ve fit Hexmags, Aluminum mags, Pmags, ETS mags, 2nd Amendment mags, Thermolds, Lancers, and more in the foam and they fit perfectly. The foam cuts are high enough to keep the mags secure as well.

MTM Tactical Mag Can
15 Standard AR mags, 1 5 round mag, and 5 Scorpion Magazines

This is certainly the easiest way to transport mags in bulk between home and the range. Especially if you’re like me and prefer to load before you go. If you’ll notice in my pictures I have fit a total of 22 magazines in the case. It;s a total of 15 standard AR magazines, 1 5 round magazine, and 6 Scorpion 9mm magazines. You can fit pistol magazines with ease between the rifle mags if you choose to maximize space.

Size Restrictions

If you are curious this thing is only made for 30 round magazines. Well, 32 for Daniel Defense magazines. Magpul 40 rounders are not compatible. The 5 rounds I have is a ten round mag permanently altered to five rounds, it’s just long enough to fit and be removed easily. Anything shorter than a 10 round magazine would be a bit short.

MTM Tactical Mag Can
Any Mag, in Any Configuration

Getting Organized.

To my wife’s chagrin, I’ve now bought another and figured I need to really fill it up to be useful. So more mag purchases are necessary. The MTM Tactical Mag Can is an excellent item for any man room or home armory. It’s also pretty affordable at around 20 bucks on Amazon. A perfect gift for the fellow gun lover.

 


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Travis Pike Travis Pike is a former Marine Machine gunner who served with 2nd Bn 2nd Marines for 5 years. He deployed in 2009 to Afghanistan and again in 2011 with the 22nd MEU(SOC) during a record setting 11 months at sea. He’s trained with the Romanian Army, the Spanish Marines, the Emirate Marines and the Afghan National Army. He serves as an NRA certified pistol instructor and teaches concealed carry classes.

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