Hello all,
I have a question for the collective "fount of all knowledge" that hangs around this cyber-nuthouse.
I'm trying to find some information regarding percussion caps in very damp situations, specifically storage requirements and shelf life. The search function turned up lots about smokeless primers, but not much on percussion caps.
For gits-&-shiggles, lets say they are going to be stored on a gulf coast shrimp boat for a year. (not really that bad, but close.) I have been reading Jimmy Buffett's latest book, and simultaneously drooling over a Dixie Gun Works Roger's and Spencer in the London grey finish. Now I'm fantasizing about moving back down to the Gulf Coast, then bouncing around old "El Caribe" in an old shrimper-turned-freighter, wasting life away as a jungle adventurer/freighter captain, neither of which is a real job.
This is obviously all hypothetical, but how would one go about storing powder and caps in a severely damp climate? Also, how long might they last? I'm thinking individual plastic wrapped containers, inside of smaller waterproof ammo cans, inside of one mid-to-large size dry box.
Well, thanks in advance for the input, I'm gonna go see if anyone has a copy of "The African Queen" I can borrow
I have a question for the collective "fount of all knowledge" that hangs around this cyber-nuthouse.
I'm trying to find some information regarding percussion caps in very damp situations, specifically storage requirements and shelf life. The search function turned up lots about smokeless primers, but not much on percussion caps.
For gits-&-shiggles, lets say they are going to be stored on a gulf coast shrimp boat for a year. (not really that bad, but close.) I have been reading Jimmy Buffett's latest book, and simultaneously drooling over a Dixie Gun Works Roger's and Spencer in the London grey finish. Now I'm fantasizing about moving back down to the Gulf Coast, then bouncing around old "El Caribe" in an old shrimper-turned-freighter, wasting life away as a jungle adventurer/freighter captain, neither of which is a real job.
This is obviously all hypothetical, but how would one go about storing powder and caps in a severely damp climate? Also, how long might they last? I'm thinking individual plastic wrapped containers, inside of smaller waterproof ammo cans, inside of one mid-to-large size dry box.
Well, thanks in advance for the input, I'm gonna go see if anyone has a copy of "The African Queen" I can borrow
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