How do you store your powder?

[Muddydogs]

1 pound containers are on a shelf. Extra 1 pounders and jugs are stored in 2 bigger ammo cans with the lids just setting on the can not locked down. Primers are stored in a plastic ammo can. I'm sure in case of a fire the green propane bottles, cans of this and that spray lube and paint as well as many other house hold items have more potential to explode then the powder.

 

[kgpcr]

I just keep it in the basement where its cool and dry. It will last longer than i will

 

[MutinousDoug]

You might want to subtly ask around about what your local fire regulations are regarding storage of flammables starting with your home owners insurance company.

The answer you get may suggest a can of worms, in which case it's better for you to know before hand.

After my investigation of the liabilities involved, powder and gas cans I'm not using go in a chest or cabinet in my back yard, away from the house .

Takes about 20 minutes for the local Vollies to respond to a 911 around here. Unless there's a human inside, they're going to sprinkle water on any fire from the outside once the tanker gets here.

YMMV

 

[MikeS.]

Spare bedroom closet.

 

[Cleftwynd]

In various sizes of rifle and pistol brass, and shotshells. Any leftover powder gets stored in a locked 32"x36"x22" wooden cabinet that hangs on the wall but is quickly remove able.

 

[1SOW]

I researched OSHA and the powder manufacturers and used the general consensus for home powder storage container: 1" thick wooden box/cabinet with rabetted joints held by screws. I made self-closing doors.

 

[Nalgi]

basement is coll and maintains a pretty constant temp year round.

 

[Swampman]

I keep telling myself that I'm going to build separate wooden magazines for my powder and primers, but unfortunately I never seem to find the time.

Meanwhile I store powder in a couple of old GI footlockers on the floor and primers are stored in .50 cal cans on a shelf on the far side of the room. All of this is in my temperature controlled reloading/gun stuff shack in the back yard about 50 feet from the house.

I have enough friends on the local VFD that they know to stay well back if it ever catches fire.

 

[FROGO207]

I store mine on a set of shelves that are open all around with wood shelf/steel risers and a 1 inch lip. The lead bullets and some spare brass on the first two shelves and propellant on the ones above. On the opposite side of the room I have the same setup with more brass/bullets and use the middle shelves to hold primers then reloading dies on the higher ones. Works well for me.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Reloading table is at one end of the room and powder storage is at the other end in a closet. Powder is stored just off the floor and has several cans of fire retardent over them just in case of a fire. That is why its also stored just off the floor.

Just wondering how do you folks store your primers.

 

[Trent]

On a shelf in the basement, opposite end as the primers / ammo.



Primer cabinet; metal cabinet to keep SOME heat at bay, doors are flimsy and won't contain pressure;

 

[atvalaska]

in a large plastic tote with latches that cam over to hold the lid on...I put a EMPD -seal on it and added dryz air to it....... then up on the top shelf in the shop where the temp stays 60 to 70deg 24/7....primers go in 50cal ammo cans with dryz air to ..... still shooting the same Clinton ban period cci primers- that have never misfired.

 

[788Ham]

I store the powder I'm not using, in an above load bench area cabinet. Opposite end of the bsmnt I have a cooler I keep all extra powder in, primers are in a 20mm ammo box, other side of bsmnt, cool and dry year 'round.