Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Any problems storing primers

on the empty shelves?

you should have room for 30,000 plus. but you will need more powder to shoot them all.

I don't store mine that close to my powder.....just me.

I have always kept mine in an old coleman camp fridge and an igloo cooler because of temp swings in my old reloading room. When I moved to the new reloading room I just kept doing it that way. Now that I am getting shelves built into my reloading room I was going to move them over there but kept having a [bleep] thought that you should not store primers and powder together. I think maybe I am thinking about hazmats shipping primers and powder separately.

Federals come in a big box

Need more bullets too, moving this crap around is a pain.

Many government rules are written by people that don't have a clue of what they are writing about.

Powder and primers should be stored in a dry place that does not have extreme temperatures or great temperature changes.

The 2 gallon gas can that I keep in my garage for my lawnmower is far more dangerous than all of my primers and powder put together.

Those empty shelves in your original pic look like an excellent place to store your primers.

I recently started storing primers in "Plano Field Boxes" which Midway carries and I have also found them locally. They are touted as "Holds 6-8 boxes of ammunition, perfect for small electronics and range finders". They are some type of soft plastic with brass latch and the lid has an O-ring seal. Price was about 10 bucks each at both places (+ shipping if it comes from Midway). But even in something like that I don't put 'em anyplace with big temperature swings or high humidity. Used to use GI ammo cans, (which also work well) but these are slightly smaller and fit my shelves better.

^^^^^that.

I keep mine all together, stacked on top of each other in alternate levels.

I ain't gonna diddle around with a couple of little ka-booms.....

If your gonna a flash might as well have a biggun

Hmm, where exactly in SW MS is all that powder stored? Lol. Looks like a great setup. I wouldn't worry about having the powder and primers next to each other but that's just me

I didn't know you owned a powder distributorship.

Looks good , but here in Canada i would be charged if caught storing powder open like that in my residence.

The box of cci's I'm working out of is stacked on top of the powder I'm not using at the moment. If you manage to smack a primer in a box hard enough to get it to fire while it's on a shelf then you have done something ! I worry about static electricity setting the powder off in the winter when I handle it not that the primers are going to spontaneously combust . I know that if the powder gets lit off the primers that are laying on top of it are not going to make a measurable difference in how fast my 65 year old heart wood pine house is going to burn down. Without a case containing the powder or primers the burn is just a hot smokey mess. Nothing goes boom just a hiss.

What would they charge you with ? Hoarding ? I know I'm jealous of his collection !