How much powder??

Warbirds

My roommate isn't a shooter, he supports guns, knows I own a ton of them and we've never had any problem with it. I had some stuff show up from dillon in the mail and he started asking me some basic reloading questions. I took him out to the garage and started showing him a few things, we made a 12 gauge shell, ect. He was completely shocked that I had around 15lbs of gunpowder in storage (locked up in steel containers) out there. How much gunpowder do you keep around the house? I think 15lbs is actually a little less than I'd like to have around, but until the gunstore gets more in, that's all I have for now.

R/

Dave

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FrancF

About 8 or nine pounds (in the one pound containers) Mostly differant flavors. When I was Vaminting alot a few years back, I bet I had at least 20 lbs of H380 at any given time.



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rimfire72

It varies. Anywhere from 10-20lbs at any given time. Sometimes more if I find a good deal.

ContacFront

Storing powder in locked steel containers have just turned those kegs into one big frag if a fire were to break out. Just a thought. I keep a fair amount of powder around.

mrbruce

I keep close to 30# of powder in each of two NYS state approved steel, lockable, movable, and fire proof magazines.
Also a bunch in the loading room under the bench........


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jonk

At the moment? About 12 pounds of smokeless and 3 of blackpowder.

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dakotashooter2

SHHHHHHHHHHH. The Fire Marshall may be listening.

gunnut505

8 lb. kegs are like toadstools after a rain in my house, I keep getting great deals on new powder with wrinkled/torn labels that Charlie thinks no one will buy! F'r instance; the last 2 I bought (Saturday) were Reloder22 for only $75!

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eastwood44mag

Assuming that I hadn't reloaded any shells from my current supplies:

8 lbs. Universal
4 lbs. TiteWad
1 lb. each Long Shot, H110, Pyrodex, Triple 7

and of coure all my loaded ammunition. But around 16 pounds of loose powder, a few thousand rounds, and several thousand primers. If the house catches fire, we'll all be screwed.

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Iconoclast

Hmmmm . . . I won't (and could not, because I've not taken any inventory for years) say *exactly* how much powder I have, but I'm sure my landlord and the fire marshal would have heart attacks; I'm sure it is *several* multiples of 15 pounds. When I had my custom loading business, I only bought powder in 8 to 20 pound containers . . . unless I walked into some place where someone wanted to sell off some NOS for pennies on the dollar. Today, I'm *real* glad I did - this was before the HazMat BS and I doubt I paid more than $4 a pound. I know I have some powders I may never load, but for $1 or so a pound, I should care? I had to buy some powder at current market prices last year and I about blanking choked. Used to be I could load magnum handgun ammo (admittedly casting my own bullets from scrounged alloy) for less than a box of .22 LR. This BS of $15+ powder really sucks. I hate to think what it will cost when I run through my stash of primers, too. I've gotten *real* spoiled loading ammo for around $0.02 - $0.03 a round!

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