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I recently found and purchased 15,000 federal premium gm215m primers. What is the best and safest way to store them? What is the expected shelf life for them?:confused:
 
What is the best and safest way to store them? What is the expected shelf life for them?
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In their boxes they are now packed in, on a shelf or somewhere inside your house.

100 years? Longer than you'll live.
 
OK the shelf life is great news. The primers are in the 5,000 round cases. A friend suggested that I place them in sealed tote along with silica moisture reducing canister. Is that a bad idea?
 
[QUOTEI keep mine in 30cal ammo cans. Keeps them dry and a little safer then without. ][/QUOTE]

Safer than what? In case of a fire its a bomb, with steel shrapnel.
 
Store them somewhere insulated from fire, say in a heavy walled wooden box which will buy you time in a fire. Your primers WILL explode in a fire. If you have a basement I would store them there in a wood box as far from sleeping areas as possible. Moisture is not that big of a deal, primers are made wet.
 
I store my supply in an older gun safe. I do not keep any powder in it. The safe is not fire proof, there is air flow around the door edges. Keep it cool and dry. I do keep a working supply out in the open in my reloading area. I have some primers that I occasionally use (no failures) that are 25+ years old.
 
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