RELOADING ROOM TEMPERATURE??

[Highland Lofts]

Humidity is your worse enemy where reloading is done.as far as temperature goes make it comfortable to you. That about sums it up.

 

[Airborne Falcon]

I live in SC where, in the summer, it can reach 115° real feel factor on a summer day ... my man cave is an attached room in the garage. I run a dehumidifier in there and I connected my home's ductwork so that it cools in there in the summertime, enough-so where I can get in there and hide and reload.

I do everything to prevent humidity from affecting my powder when reloading.

We really do not have a winter around here, we have palm trees, etc., so winter is prime reloading time for me. Relatively low humidity, 60s and 70s, ... it may get cool overnight sometimes but our mean, year-round, average is 72°.

I dunno. We just naturally work-around humidity here. It comes with the territory and always has. Modern small dehumidifiers are a godsend imho.

 

[johnjohn]

Down here in summer it gets really hot with plenty of humidity. Winters are cold and wet. I know its not cold by some standards but feels cold to me.

 

[Gooseman69]

Our reloading room/vault is a separate room in the finished basement of our house the tempature is controlled by the main central heat & AC for the house

 

[tightgroup tiger]

My loading room is a combined workshop, laundry room, and re-loading room. Stays 70 degrees and 35-45% humidity year around in there except for the middle of the Winter, it will get really dry as far as humidity goes.
It gets like a desert around here in the winter as far as humidity goes.

 

[Riomouse911]

I’m forced to use my attached garage as my reloading/storage room. It’s not my first choice, but it could be worse.

The codes at the time the house was built called for 6” insulated exterior walls so the temp doesn’t swing wildly, and the roll up door is insulated with 2” of styrofoam so even that doesn’t get very hot in the morning sun nor very cold in the winter.

I'm in Southern Coastal Oregon, roughly 7 miles north from the CA/OR border. Current temp is 45 degrees. Yep, pretty wet, rainy, and just about 1,000 yards from the beach. I have been reloading here in my shed for 11 years and have had no ill affects on my handloads. I keep a small room heater in the "shop" for my comfort but nothing for the humidity. My components are in original boxes and jugs and seem to still work (some left over fom So. CA and 20+ years old). Retired from my job and since our move to OR I have reloaded a lot, as I have plenty of time (I also got involved with 9mm and now have 5 guns in that caliber to shoot). No problems associated with weather. Except getting wet running from the back door to the shed...

I lived for four years on a hilltop overlooking Humboldt Bay in Northern Ca., as mdi stated if it wasn’t foggy and didn’t rain at least once every 10 days the long-timers were calling it a drought. None of my friends up there ever had an issue with anything more than battling rust on their firearms. You should be a-ok as long as the cases aren’t covered in condensation inside when you’re loading them.

Stay safe.