How much powder is too much??
- Thread starter Antoviola
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When I buy a barrel, I try to buy the components to wear it out without having to change lot numbers of powder or primers.
I figure you should aim keep enough to last you until you're confident prices will come down.
Read that carefully, and figure it out.
Read that carefully, and figure it out.
CJ6
Silver $$ Contributor
No you're not crazy....Quite a few have 3-4 times that at least.
nakneker
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Not crazy at all, it not about how much you have, it’s about how much you use in a given amount of time and trying to have what you need to satisfy your needs. Nothing worse than running out of a component you use all the time. It’s good to be prepared.
Up to but not to exceed limits of the fire code and safe storage. Depending on the community there may be senseless local requirements such as nothing bigger than a one pound container.
Given access to the land and space appropriately scattered magazines will allow quite a bit.
Given the limits of apartments and town houses not so much.
Legal limits may mean not storing quite so much as a lifetime supply.
Then again I've found myself struggling to use up bulk stocks of powders that have fallen by the wayside - I'm using Speer 11 for references to use up 452 and 473 in handguns because changes in hulls and wads and availability have led me to move on in shotgun loads.
Similarly traditional IMR powders still work as well as they ever did but like some older ball/spherical powders my stocks are more temperature sensitive or dirty than I prefer given today's choices.
Given access to the land and space appropriately scattered magazines will allow quite a bit.
Given the limits of apartments and town houses not so much.
Legal limits may mean not storing quite so much as a lifetime supply.
Then again I've found myself struggling to use up bulk stocks of powders that have fallen by the wayside - I'm using Speer 11 for references to use up 452 and 473 in handguns because changes in hulls and wads and availability have led me to move on in shotgun loads.
Similarly traditional IMR powders still work as well as they ever did but like some older ball/spherical powders my stocks are more temperature sensitive or dirty than I prefer given today's choices.
How much do you shoot? Thirty pounds is 4200 rounds with 50 grain charges. If you have ten different powders that’s 42,000 rounds. That will wear out a lot of barrels.
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I have at least 1000 pounds of powder. I have sold at least another 700 pounds. It's just what I've accumulated over the years. I just like buying stuff. I've bought out people's entire benchrest operation. I bought all of Tony Boyer's stuff last September and he had 120lbs of N133. When you buy out people's components and equipment it doesn't take too long to accumulate volume's of stuff. I don't shoot much PPC stuff and I had about 18K bullets, but adding Tony's 35000 plus bullets to that, well you get the picture. It's just something that I like doing is buying stuff. I'll probably die and leave a mess for my girlfriend or brother to handle but I'll be dead so who cares. I won't.
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Dusty Stevens
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You could certainly have your money in worse places.
When you have dryer sheet jumpsuits for you and guests to wear so not to create a static charge, while walking thru the house Bc it’s floor to ceiling
Wall to wall, pig path only…
Wall to wall, pig path only…
Don’t trust anybody
Too much powder???????
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!
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