How do you store your primers?

[joshb]

I put them in zip lock freezer bags, then in a drawer.

 

[GoldieMI]

In the factory packaging in my climate controlled reloading area
it's 65 degrees-68 degrees year round with 30-35% humidity
Cardboard boxes sitting on shelves just like at the LGS

 

[Spook]

I'm still shooting military 308 and 30-06 ( some of it foreign made ) loaded up in the 1940's, that go bang every time a firing pin hits them. The must have all been kept in climate controlled conditions?

 

[JimSC]

I keep my powder primers and bullets in a tall wooden cabinet in a climate controlled reloading room with pull out drawers and shelves

 

[Chiquita]

A pre-made round is sealed at both ends so generally humidity and temperature swings may not affect it. A primer is open at one end.

 

[Chiquita]

I'm still shooting military 308 and 30-06 ( some of it foreign made ) loaded up in the 1940's, that go bang every time a firing pin hits them. The must have all been kept in climate controlled conditions?

A pre-made round is sealed at both ends so generally humidity and temperature swings may not affect it. A primer is open at one end.

 

[CT10ring]

I've hauled primers and powder - from Connecticut / high humidity summers and minus zero winters - to NYC (storage) to Idaho - very low humidity. OEM boxes. They function well w/ no special care, 10 years on for some of em. A pleasant surprise. Tens of thousand of em...CCI

 

[Dave M.]

How do you store your primers in bulk?
Do you keep them sealed in ammo cans, tupperware, or other air tight containers?
On a shelf or in your cabinet in a temp/humidity controlled area?
On a shelf in a uncontrolled temp/humidity area?
Or do you split them into "long term/ short term" areas using a combination of both?
Just wondering how I want to set up my primer area in my new reloading room. Thanks guys.

Lol. I keep them on the same bottom 16’ shelf of my workbench that I store my bullets, front and rear rests, shooting mats and bullet boxes on. No special treatment for primers and it certainly hasn’t hurt my scoring one bit. In over 12K rounds fired in three separate F-Class rifles, we have never had a single hang fire or primer that failed to ignite.
Dave

 

[Dave M.]

I'm asking because I have been storing them in 30MM ammo cans and it's becoming a pain in the Ars to open the can and dig through it to find the desired kind and remove them and put everything back. Especially if it isnt needed to keep them fresh.

Not necessary at all. Factory packaging on the shelf is more than fine if the room is relatively constant climate (like my basement)

 

[kiwijohn]

For short term storage I push them into these small holes in the back of my case things, cover them with a bed of powder then place a heavy piece of brass on top. Slip them into some boxes with MTM written on the side and wait for them to go bang. At the range of course.

For longer storage ( up to 30 years ) I stack them into a airy tool box that lives in a wardrobe within the house.

 

[topclass2017]

in a closet in a spare bedroom. in their original packaging. Done so for at least 15 years (in WA and now in TX), and they have all gone "boom" when required to do so.

 

[GLO123]

I currently have about 5500 primers in a plastic ammo box with rubber seal. They are all still in the factory boxes. I also put a bunch of fresh desiccant packs in the can. They are stored in my reloading room/Man cave. It is heated to about 55 degrees in the winter and in the summer it only gets about 75-80 deg.

 

[chop house]

now you guys are just braggin'.....


i have all mine stored in an old lunch pail.

 

[jepp2]

Glad to see everyone is storing them in the factory packaging. It is designed to contain things in the event they detonate. I had some primers, properly stored in a wood cabinet, away from electrical current and only accessed by me. Got them out to use some and this is what I found. One tray had about 60% that had detonated.

 

[46and2]

Glad to see everyone is storing them in the factory packaging. It is designed to contain things in the event they detonate. I had some primers, properly stored in a wood cabinet, away from electrical current and only accessed by me. Got them out to use some and this is what I found. One tray had about 60% that had detonated.
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Mice??

 

[Alliant Reloading]

The below link will take you to the SAAMI guidance on small arms primers.

https://saami.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Info-Doc-Primers.pdf

I copied the point on storage, relative to humidity.
5. Modern sporting ammunition primers will not absorb moisture under normal or even severe conditions of atmospheric humidity. There is no advantage to be gained from air-tight containers. The factory containers in which they are packaged need only normal conditions of storage. They should be kept dry and not exposed to high temperatures (in excess of 150° F). If exposed to wet conditions or high temperatures, they may deteriorate, yielding misfires or poor ignition of the propellant powder.
Be safe,
Paul

 

[JEFFPPC]

I store them as they come on a shelf under my reloading bench. It's worked for the 60 plus years I have been reloading. I bet if some guys put the effort in to how to tune, how to have good bench manners, how to read wind flags etc. and not dreaming up things of no substance they would do a lot better on the target. Just saying.......

 

[AckleymanII]

what ever you do, don't store your primers and powder in a gun safe. It a fire, the safe may explode and would surely nullify your home owners insurance policy.

 

[okie]

How do you store your primers in bulk?
Do you keep them sealed in ammo cans, tupperware, or other air tight containers?
On a shelf or in your cabinet in a temp/humidity controlled area?
On a shelf in a uncontrolled temp/humidity area?
Or do you split them into "long term/ short term" areas using a combination of both?
Just wondering how I want to set up my primer area in my new reloading room. Thanks guys.

Whats your 20???

 

[jepp2]

Mice??

I was never able to determine what caused the primers to fire. Earlier in my career I spent a few working working with blasting caps and high explosives, so I am probably more attuned to initiation sources than I used to be. Easy answer would be that someone else messed with them, but that just isn't a possibility.