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anyone have primer storage ideas

goldeneagle76goldeneagle76 Member Posts: 4,359
edited June 2006 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I am looking for some ideas for storing primers. If anyone has pics of home made storage boxes or ideas that would be great.

Thanks.
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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Leave them in the original packages. The only high explosive involved in reloading is the primer....so don't store a dozen cases all in one spot.
    I use 50 cal cans and don't latch the hatch....I THINK there is rupture safeguards built into those cans..I.E., before pressure could build to huge porportions, the seams would let go...but have no desire to test that theory.

    I expect a tight wooden box might be better...but I have primers from thirty years ago that still seem to ignite to same chromo velocities as the newest...
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  • sig232sig232 Member Posts: 8,018
    edited November -1
    I am sure you know that primers are always stored away from the gunpowder. I have mine in orgional cartons and only keep a limited supply around at one time and they are in a enclosed cabinet that is easy to open. Not air tight.
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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I keep all my hight explosives in ammo cans, just seems that thats what they were designed for, and there very cheep. and look good.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello keep them in orginial packing box I know they are dangerous but I buy primers at Camp Perry in bulk all with the same lot number so I don't have to work up new load each time I buy primers I have bought as many as 50,000 at a time . I dont think in the cardboard box unless there was a fire there is any danger . Champions choice www.champchoice.com brings upward of 1 meg of primers with him every year.Your mileage may vary."PRAISE THE HARD-BALL GUN"
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Leave them as you bought them, in the original packaging. And don't store them in a confined space, such as a desk drawer, if you do have an accident and they were to blow, your drawer may be blown to splinters. Some law of pressures in confined spaces (ie. if you put a firecracker on your opened palm and light it. It would not bother you. But, if you clench your hand around it, BOOM, goodbye fingers.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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