Storing primers in ammo cans?

[bluejay75]

I use it everywhere. Camping box. Boat dry box. Just like whats in the little packs but you can tailor to the size you need. Socks work great.

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[drband]

rcmodel always said “don’t store your primers in a glass jar” so I guess original packaging is a pretty good bet whether on a shelf or in an ammo can.

 

[Walkalong]

Primers would be bad enough in a house fire without being contained in a steel box.

Consider the safety of your local fire fighters when storing powder and primers.

Y’all be careful out there.

 

[BCR#1]

Primers would be bad enough in a house fire without being contained in a steel box.

Consider the safety of your local fire fighters when storing powder and primers.

Y’all be careful out there.

For over 25 years, I've always stored my primers in their bricks inside 50 cal ammo cans, 8 bricks per can and I NEVER had any kind of problem doing so.. I would always smile when I read about how bad it was to store in metal cans but this post about potential bomb and the FD gave me a change of heart. Now they are stored in a large see through tote w/ lid.

I'll use the cans to store high end target .22 LR.

Bill

 

[bullseye308]

In order to be completely safe and within the law, here is what you do. Put all your primers in cardboard boxes, put an ormd sticker on it, throw enough cash to pay the hazmat fee out the window, and viola. It worked for many years, it will probably work for many more. It’s not like ups or fedex did anything different while shipping them, why should you?

 

[mbear]

The big deal with primers is your insurance company. They tend to frown on more that 5k being stored. But honestly who keep that small amount?
Plastic ammo cans are better than meatal ones. I keep mine primers on a shelf in the barn in their original boxes. I keep my powder in their original boxes in a temperature and moisture controlled environment.

 

[Riomouse911]

On a shelf in their boxes for me. Powder on another shelf in their original packaging, too.

I will store primed brass in plastic Folgers coffee cans with lids. Those are on another shelf. Some of my primed .45 Colt brass was primed 10 years ago, it all goes boom when loaded and fired.



Stay safe.

 

[Gone Hiking]

I guess I have to ask... what is it about primers setting on a shelf, or in an ammo can, that would cause them to detonate, aside from a house fire, anyway?

I've stored my primers, typically CCI or Winchesters, which are packed pretty densely, in ammo cans for 30 years. They are on a shelf in the reloading room near the floor. I don't shoot my ammo cans... so there is that. I don't throw them off the roof, kick them, whack them with a baseball bat. I don't see the danger. Carriers haul primers in trucks... they see far more vibration and impact from a trip in a truck or trailer than they have ever seen in my ammo cans... and I don't know that I've ever heard of a Buster Brown truck catching fire because he had a sleeve of primers in the truck out for delivery.

This is where I'm at. The primers remain in their original sleeves / bricks, along with a few desiccant packs in the cans. Does this pose any more risk than the powder on your shelf, or keeping a can of gas, spare propane tank, or a new Tesla in the garage, a space heater full of kerosene, having old wiring in your home, etc. ? (Not being a wise guy, here.)

 

[Ironicaintit]

Just use your head and don’t store them in a pressure vessel. I think mil-surp ammo cans are great and wonderful, but I’d leave the lid loose if it were full of primers.

mine are stored in a relatively fragile metal box, primers in original packaging, with the lid ajar. They’re on the floor and kept cool.

 

[Soonerpesek]

Just use your head and don’t store them in a pressure vessel

I'd have to say that sums this all up pretty well.....

 

[Walkalong]

Everyone has given their opinion, store primers as you see fit in your home etc. Just remember, unlike smokeless powder, primers are explosive.