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Dombo63 wrote:No reason why they shouldn't. If it's below the maximum weight limit then you should be able to use it in competition. Primers come in boxes of 1000 so unless you're planning to reenact the defence of Rorke's Drift on your own with live home-loaded ammo you should be ok.
How big a container is 15kg? I presume it needs to be kept in my ammo safe.
rox wrote:
mag41uk wrote:...and loaded rounds. 15Kg works out to 5,144 charges of 45 grains. Actually, I think the 15Kg limit is what you are allowed to store in a single dwelling without requiring explosives licensing etc.
Everything counts towards the 15Kgs, powder, primers, loaded rounds, .22LR stuff and even shotgun cartridges, blanks and black powder. DO NOT keep it in a steel container, I have a large wooden compartmented powder locker and JD Reloading has some very nice ones listed up to (I think) 15 tubs.
Powder will come in typically 3kg, 1Kg or 1Lb tubs so you need to potentially hold 30 tubs which gives you some room for primers however as already discussed this is a huge amount of rounds to put down range for the average shooter. I would suggest 10Kgs is going to see you through the next year and probably more.
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Thanks for the info, very helpful. Why not just keep it in the plastic tubs it comes in? BTW how big is a 3KG tub? I can't get any sense of scale on the pictures I've found and I presume it needs to be kept in a safe doesn't it?
If you don't think the closing of the primary smelter will be an issue, what makes you think small calibre ammo will be impossible to get starting this month?
saddler wrote:...and do bear inind that ALL ammo originates in the good old US of A !
The closing of the lead smelter there will be nothing of catastrophic on a global scale.
I predict a complete lack of any small arms ammunition before the end of 2013
OK thanks, that makes life easier in some respects. I appreciate it's not an explosive just a propellant, but is there any need to keep it under lock and key in some fashion?
Just be sensible, don't leave it out anywhere will it will suffer extremes of temperature either hot or cold and don't expose to direct sunlight. Under your reloading bench should be fine.
I keep powders (about 12Kg) both under and on top of the reloading bench, primers are kept separately in an ammo safe (not airtight). FEO was round a week or so ago and had no problem with it at all.
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