How and where do you store your BP?

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Poncho. I store mine in the basement on a shelf in its original container. It stays good but I only buy maybe 2 pounds at a time.
 
In the original container, underneath my wife's side of the bed.
 
Legal requirement here is to store it in locked wooden box with individual partitions and intumescent seal on lid.
 
In the original containers, or transferred to tin original cans on the shelf in my shop, 3 or 4 pounds. Two powder flasks full, 1 sxs shot gun and a revolver loaded.
 
I have it in the original cans that it came in 30 years ago.
I brought two pounds here from California 20 years ago, and now am just getting back into shooting BP.
The stuff still works fine.
 
Oops... guess he's asking about the powder and not the gun. In a foot locker in a spare bedroom. I keep it in the house so the temp is more consistent.
 
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At first i thought he wanted to know about how we store our guns then i looked again its just BP so i figured that was just the powder.

If he means the guns ive been using a foam ear plug in the muzzle after i bore butter it. My hope is the ear plug will swell and some what "cork it" and keep the bore butter from drying out. Orange means cleaned and ready to shoot.
 
Keeping it stored in a safe or sealed metal container turns it into a potential bomb if it were to ignite. I thought of that after thinking it was a good idea, then realized what might happen so I keep it in a box without sealing the lid. Out side in a shed.
 
the powder storage safe listed above has a lid design to relieve pressure without rupturing should the powder ignite. For large amounts of powder, this type of storage maybe required in many states.
 
In Germany, they did an inspection of a neighbor of a friend of mine. Local police wanted to know how they were being stored. The guns (one a frickin Thomas Boss muzzleloader, yea he's got money) not the black powder. Ain't that something?
 
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I have at least one flask or horn for each of my B/p guns, so if I fill each that's about 2 lbs of powder so any left over is kept in the original can. My wife had a room built for me in the unattached garage for my reloading, after a retired state policeman blew himself and his house up, and the paper stated that he kept large quantities of black powder, but he had modern guns?:cuss::cuss:
 
drago9900 said:
Keeping it stored in a safe or sealed metal container turns it into a potential bomb if it were to ignite. I thought of that after thinking it was a good idea, then realized what might happen so I keep it in a box without sealing the lid. Out side in a shed.
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Ditto on that.
 
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