[andy]

We all know that reloading component availability is still spotty, so when I got a chance to pick up primers at a decent price, I got 5000 ea Small and Large pistol and rifle. How many primers is too many for you all to keep in your home?

Thanks
Andy

 

[miestro_jerry]

There is no limit that I can find. You may want to check with your insurance agent. I generally have a lot more than you have, never had any problems. I do store mine in a double walled stainless cabinet.

Jerry

 

[broom_jm]

This is sort of like asking how many dollars one should have on hand...there is no number too high.

 

[andy]

Dollars are not quite as flammable tho...
Andy

 

[TMan]

Well, I think you have too many, and should send me some!!!

I keep a minimum of 3000 of every type. When I open the 3001 box, I look for 1000 more of that size.

 

[MikeG]

Here ya go:

http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/archive_tech_notes.htm/60

There are quantities of powder and primers that trigger magazine requirements. You would have to check state & local ordinances, and perhaps look into how stringently they are really enforced.

 

[TMan]

There are quantities of powder and primers that trigger magazine requirements. You would have to check state & local ordinances, and perhaps look into how stringently they are really enforced.

Had me scared, I'm OK.

 

[pruhdlr]

How Many ...Yeah Right

How many ?? This is a super easy question to answer.

MULTIPLY --> how many shots you fire per day, by the number of days you expect to live. That's how many primers you should have on hand.

That's what I did back in the Klinton years. I had a FFL and did business with several wholesalers. Jerry's Sports was one of them. Slick Willie was coming down on the smaller FFL holders demanding a store front,diagram of the business including the alarm systems,etc,and I got worried about my privacy.

Sooooo.... when it came time to renew my FFL,I simply let it expire. But before I did I ordered all the reloading components that I felt I would need. Powders,primers,bullets,brass,and some other "essentials" were scarfed up by me and several friends. I haven't bought a single primer since 1994. Same with brass. I have traded a can of powder or two for the powder that I have needed to reload this and that.(I am shooting several new chamberings since back then.)But basically,I'm good.

I still have some cans of powder that cost me <$14. When there was a short supply of reloading components(2 years ago) I actually traded some stuff for a weapon that I had always wanted. I still have approximately 50lbs of powder and 20K in primers. Bullets by the milk jug full that I got at Sierra also.

Now that I am older, do I still need all this ?? Don't know....but I do know that these days I shoot an awful lot. Hopefully I will live another 35 years and use all this stuff up. ----pruhdlr

 

[arkypete]

When you use a fork lift to move them around.

Jim

 

[TMan]

That's what I did back in the Klinton years. I had a FFL and did business with several wholesalers. Jerry's Sports was one of them. Slick Willie was coming down on the smaller FFL holders demanding a store front,diagram of the business including the alarm systems,etc,and I got worried about my privacy.

Ya know, I did the same thing. I also bought two 40mm Cannon ammo boxes for powder, and three of the .556mm boxes for primers. I dropped a couple dessicant packs in each one, and I keep them in the basement which is actually quite dry and cool.

I think it's a Democrat plot to drive sales in the gun industry. Every time one of the idiots gets into office, there's a component shortage.

I don't know any, but they say some gun owners voted for the current moron, possibly the biggest threat yet to rights and freedoms ever. Even in NJ, I don't think I've ever seen a NRA sticker and an Yobama sticker on the same vehicle.

 

[ranger335v]

" How many primers is too many? "

That's a broad question; too many for what?

 

[Rocky Raab]

I've written several times (and been flamed for it) that anything more than about a two-year supply at your usual rate of shooting is hoarding, in my opinion.

 

[pruhdlr]

Sticks and Stones......

I have never been the one to "flame" someone for making the decision not to be prepared. Although I HAVE charged someone >double for a brick of primers when they ran out due to their lack of foresight.

"My name is pruhdlr and YES,I am a "horder". I'm not asking for forgivness or even understanding.
I say....a wise decission to some is mearly "hording" to others. ----pruhdlr("Horder")

 

[miestro_jerry]

Don use the dollar as an example, it isn't worth that much any more.

I like the concept of when you need a fork lift to move your stash around.

Of course what is a two year, that could be 2,000 or 200,000 depending on how much you shoot. If I owned a mini gun a million a year would be about right.

Check with your insurance agent.

Have fun! No flaming.

Jerry

 

[Rocky Raab]

That's why I don't put a hard number to it, Jerry. A two-year supply might be 100 primers for some, or 100,000 for another. But if a two-year supply isn't enough to "be prepared" then I have to ask: prepared for WHAT?

 

[broom_jm]

When I think in terms of being "prepared", it usually focuses specifically on the metallic and shotshell cases I reload for; the goal being to have enough materials on-hand to make use of nearly all of them, should I decide to process them all into loaded ammunition. If I have enough #8 shot for 3,000 12-gauge shells and enough #4 shot for 1,200 20-gauge loads, then I try to have at least 3200 shotgun primers available. I don't always meet this goal, as having enough powder around isn't easy to do, but primers don't take up much space.

 

[41 Mag]

Similar to broom, I load roughly 55grs of powder into several different rifles. That comes to around 1K rounds per 8# jug. For the ones I use the same powder for, I have at least one jug unopened in reserve. I also keep enough primers and bullets to load it all up as well.

I have been doing this for quite some time and it seems to work out just fine. I finish up a jug of powder and a brick of primers about the same time. When I open the new ones I recheck the loads if the lot# is different, and go on about my business. Buying in bulk saves time and money on most loading items, and I have yet to run out or not have ammo for any of my rifles or handguns.

 

[kudu40]

Buying more than you can keep dry or away from heat is too many.
I have lots and am looking to buy more.

Kudu40

 

[Wynn]

I keep 5000 each large pistol, large rifle, small pisrol, small rifle, and shotgun. Plus lots of loaded ammo.

 

[GMFWoodchuck]

Shh...Do not advertize how many primers and how much powder you have. If you so much as get a parking ticket you be arrested for being a terrorist.

DA and officer dependent of course.