If God forbid you had a house fire......

[Mark_Mark]

It changed for to fire. I'll fix it.
It's dry aged bacon and hams mostly.

now you talking my flavor! SOUND delicious!

 

[jmorris]

The Oxy/act rig and 500 gallon propane tank would both be of greater concern to me and I probably have more powder than normal.

 

[Reloadron]

I always had this fire concert, What do you guy think about digging a root cellar and storing powder in there… just a little idea I had been thinking about.

Well my thinking is simple. If you can dig out and add a root cellar which can meet the guidelines for storing components like powder and primers (cool dry place) then have at it. Root cellars are normally cool but depending on location not always dry (low humidity).

Before I retired we had some major building renovations done where I worked. Part of the renovations involved removing new fire sprinkler heads so a scarfed up several. They are 1/2" NPT pendant style glass bulb red (155 degree F) type. I have given some thought to just putting a few on 3/4" pipe leaving a flush valve and back valve. New sprinklers run about $35 USD so putting in some 3/4" copper pipe a few valves would come in easily under $200 USD. The safe (rated as a safe) contains not just guns but wife's jewelry and hard to replace important documents.

On another note I did have 5 Lbs of black powder with my other powder stash. I do not even own a black powder gun. I mentioned it in a thread and another member a few towns over (20 min) wanted it so I just gave it to them. While not concerned with smokeless rifle powder the black powder bothered me.

Ron

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I am a first responder and I don't really worry about it. If you store it as NFPA recommends, and we do our job and put the wet stuff on the red stuff, you should be good.

If you're worried about the wooden container storage specs NFPA recommends and you're trying to keep the powder from getting destroyed, you could line the cabinet with sheet rock to increase the amount of time it will take for the heat to penetrate the box. But if you're just worried about it going boom and hurting someone, NFPA specs will do.

I'm not really worried about a couple thousand primers in factory boxes or a couple of pounds of smokeless powder. What worries me are the six or seven loaded firearms stashed around the house in various locked storage devices, most of which are only fire-rated to 20 minutes. Loose ammo is pretty much just about a firecracker; but, a loaded gun will fire a projectile. The local FD knows I have guns and has my written consent to contain the fire only, not enter the premises to attempt to save property. I know those guys - it's a volunteer FD - and I don't want any of them hurt.

I also keep fire extinguishers around the property so the FD won't have to watch our house burn when they arrive - IF someone's home. If not, that's why we have insurance.

 

[Walkalong]

Store it according to code, mark it with the hazmat labels that come on powder/primers.

 

[Otto]

I just stockpile everything at my mother-in-laws under her bed.