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???????? I do not understand, are you saying do not use a horn flask or a brass flask for storage and if so what is your reasoning?
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General Powder Storage - Plastic vs Metal containers.
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???????? I do not understand, are you saying do not use a horn flask or a brass flask for storage and if so what is your reasoning?
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The lid on my rifle with my everything box has compartments for three Goex containers held in place with a velcro strap. So I’ll take the Schutzen plastic and empty them into the very old style Goex containers in my lid. To me it just looks a lot better.
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Yes, I use a brass flask, but it's not used for storage, at least long term and I know what's in it. I should've been more clear, as I mentioned I don't store any powder in anything other than the original containers. I know of several occasions that powder has been stored in other containers and later there was some confusion as to what exactly it was. If it's in the original container there is no doubt what it is. This may not be a issue with black powder, but I'll treat it the same as smokeless.
I know THAT one,
When one has several rifles and revolvers with 3 different powder horns and a few brass flasks,, after a winter of off season storage, it can be tough to remember which has 2f or 3f or Swiss or T7!!
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If I had dedicated flasks for powder size, I'd probably use different size spouts for identification. Ie: If it has a 24/30 grain spout, that would tell me 3f for my pistol. 60 grain spout would be 2F for shotguns, rifles and what not. basically smaller spout, smaller size powder granules.I know THAT one,
When one has several rifles and revolvers with 3 different powder horns and a few brass flasks,, after a winter of season off storage, it can be tough to remember which has 2f or 3f or Swiss or T7!!
I just don't need any legal entanglements.
I'd not saying I want 5000 acres so I can shoot a Barrett .50 in the back yard. Coule hundred yards with a nice berm at the endand just far enough away from the neighbors would be just fine.
That's what I'm doing when I retire next year. Gonna get me 20 acres in Western NC and build a cabin and a range with a nice berm
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Good plan. Being able to step out the Man Cave door onto the shooting range was a requirement when I built my house 35 years ago. While just a 100 yard range it's really convenient if you forget something
being only steps away 
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That is fantastic! God Bless BrotherGood plan. Being able to step out the Man Cave door onto the shooting range was a requirement when I built my house 35 years ago. While just a 100 yard range it's really convenient if you forget something
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If I step out of my loading shed in one direction, I walk into a little railway - the way, next-door's fence. Either way my hopes for anything longer than ten yards in any direction are futzed before I even start.Good plan. Being able to step out the Man Cave door onto the shooting range was a requirement when I built my house 35 years ago. While just a 100 yard range it's really convenient if you forget something
Lucky me though - my gun club is less than ten miles away........
I live on eight acres and have a 100 yard range set up behind my house with bullet traps set up at 50 yards for rimfire benchrest practice. Behind my shop I can shoot 200-500 yards depending what my brother has planted in the bottoms. In my shop I have another trap that I use for 10 meter air rifle practice.
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I have 165 acres I bought as a weekend recreational property, where I now set up my own 900+ yard long-range precision rifle range and several shooting bays for unmentionables. I also have 3 ponds with large catfish and largemouth bass, and plenty of feral hogs and whitetail deer and turkey and ducks and geese to hunt. I have actually considered hosting a north Texas muzzleloading shoot out there sometime in cooler weather...
Anyway, the ranch lately has kept me very busy, though, and has been anything but recreational, as I keep busy clearing brush and mending barbed wire fences and cutting timber when I make it out there on weekends. I should just retire and go out there full-time, but 50 just seems kind of young to hang it all up just yet...
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For general storage, it doesn't make any difference. I saved a couple of dozen metal cans years ago when ai could buy bulk powder in 25 lb bags, so I could keep the powder in convenient containers that didn't require exposing the whole batch to whatever the prevailing humidity was every time I needed some. Also, if by chance your stash gets exposed to fire, the plastic containers will burn along with your powder. Powder in metal cans won't unless the solder melts out and some flame gets in. (a friend's house burned down, and of the 20 or so cans of powder, only 2 or 3 burned off. The rest were ok even though the paint had burned off some of the cans.). I store most of my powder in an outside magazine, and usually transfer powder from the plastic containers into metal ones just in case the back yard goes up in smoke some day.
Hard to come by in my neck of the woods and well beyond my modest means these days. Land in Rhode Island is worth the proverbial weight in gold.
It’s why I joined a private gun club almost 40 years ago.
I know your pain. From Cape Cod.
