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Reloading in the house?
- Thread starter Kwaynem
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I do.
Built my bench & set up my gear in house's small bedroom.
Keep the powder in an old foot locker, figure if I'm here and a fire starts I'm going to be fighting it, if it's brush fire coming I put the locker in whichever truck I'm going to drive off in if we have to.
If fire starts while we're not here, it doesn't matter where powder, primers, ammo is stored, it's burnt up.
We live rural, nearest fire station is over 8 miles away, if any building catches fire around in this area it most likely is pretty burnt up before first fire truck arrives.
Built my bench & set up my gear in house's small bedroom.
Keep the powder in an old foot locker, figure if I'm here and a fire starts I'm going to be fighting it, if it's brush fire coming I put the locker in whichever truck I'm going to drive off in if we have to.
If fire starts while we're not here, it doesn't matter where powder, primers, ammo is stored, it's burnt up.
We live rural, nearest fire station is over 8 miles away, if any building catches fire around in this area it most likely is pretty burnt up before first fire truck arrives.
So theoretically thinking.
doesn't keeping it inside a safe with the door closed/secured potentually create a bomb if a fire surrounding the safe occured?
No experience but I'd guess it'd depend on how much powder & primers were in safe as to how big the explosion would be.
Yes but we are going to look at risk vs reward. For me it’s a low risk of fire. Plus it’s better to keep kids and animals out of that stuff. Live ammo in an ammo can be just as bad. Even loose ammo can and has caused bodily harm. We spend a lot of money for this stuff. Most of us can’t afford an out building that is climate controlled year around. That would be the ideal place to store ammo and reloading supplies.
That why my reloading gear is in the small bedroom, course most of my gun stuff stays in the house where it's quickly accessable, the truck guns stay in the trucks.
I build another shed in my yard, or the pole barn I been thinking of, it's cause I got more stuff that needs cover from the weather.
Would be nice to have the funds to build a shop with concrete floor & heat/ac to work on cars or whatever out of the weather.
