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I keep mine in big glass pickle jars, with the blasting caps, above the dynamite,.......out by the chicken coop. There's hens all over that shelf, as I type.

Is this dangerous,....?

GTC

Tell them to purchase a reloading manual (or two, or three) and start reading. That is how I did it. If a person is interested in reloading they can get advice from people they know and trust. If they don't know anyone who reloads and they are not capable of teaching themselves they should probably leave the powder and primers alone...

I was installing a ceiling fan last night, and the section of the instruction booklet that covered the wiring had a statement that basicaly said:

"If you do not understand these instructions, STOP and contact a qualified electrician."

Depends how you define "immediate needs."

I store everything in a temperature controlled enviroment to avoid the risk of humidity, extreme temp fluctuations, etc. My water heater closet serves this purpose very well. I've built shelves for powder, primers, fireworks, gas cans, volitile chemicals, paint and anything else that I don't want to git spoilt.

Gotta run, I smell something burning.

fish head

I tumble the brass till clean
I spray it with One Shot
I shove it into a sizer die
I retumble it to remove the lube
I shove a primer into it
I put some powder into it
I shove a bullet into it
I pull the trigger and it goes BOOM

What more do you need to know?

are you not supposed to keep your fertilizer diesel cans and powder and primerss together in the room with the fireplace and don't forget the 1/4 sticks for fishing

24 hours later:

While no one chose to answer the question, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that it's highly unlikely that any of the respondents use "fire safes".

Paul

Straight answer, no I don't wear saftey glasses. I have reading glasses down on my nose some because I'm blind up close, or my arms are too short. Of the 10's of thousands of rounds I have loaded I've had one primer pop. That was when I first started and was attempting to load military brass with a LEE Loader and did not know to trim the crimp out

I think the idea of storing even a several thousand primers in a fire safe is laughable. The original containers are plenty safe and will not mass detonate even in a fire.

Hatcher's Notebook

Thanks for your answer crosshair. It's the first non-joking one. However, I think you're referring to the other thread I started about glasses. This one is about primer storage. Still, I want to thank you again for an straight-forward answer.

Thanks to you in too BarryC. I appreciate the straight answer.

Paul

OK, I'll try to give a straight answer . . . well, mostly anyhow.

I keep as many primers on hand as will fit in the storage cabinet drawer. I'm not going to say what size the drawer is, though. I don't keep them in a "fire-proof" container. I do have more than 20 primers on hand at any given time, but do not have the hundreds of thousands of primers that some seem to need. I have only been reloading for about 15 years and have not had any reloading mishaps of any magnitude at all . . . at least not yet - but I go slow and do not try to set quantity benchmarks, either.

I'm not sure if you're intentionally trying to make people suspicious, naive, or attemping to accumulate information for some unspecified purpose. You ever been in a black helicopter?

I really don't understand the paranoia.

I asked straight-forward questions.

I explained EXACTLY why I was asking those questions.

I gave my backgound and personally answered the questions I asked.

I made NO suggestions that ANYONE should avoid using ANY device THEY CHOSE for their own safety.

While the number of posts I have made may be small, I have been a member at 24hr Campfire for years.

Good grief! Exactly what more could I do in trying to get straight answers to simple questions?

Paul

Ok, I'll bite, the reality is if the black helicopters think you have something they want, they already know about you.

I try to have at least 3000 primers in the ones that I shoot. Some, like Small pistol primers, I have 1000 more. It's what stacks on the shelf nicely and they are not in a fire safe, but on wood shelf in a concrete enclosure where I load. If you look at the photos provided earlier in your first question, you can see the primers stacked up in that old wooden office piece. Again, $30 at a flea market.

I have extras too.