Buy primers stored in unheated garage?

[Taterhead]

If the packaging looked good, I wouldn't have reservations about snagging a good deal.

[Boolseye]

thanks again. he has around 20-25,000, SP, LP and SR mostly. I was thinking of offering him $20/1000. Same for the powder, somewhere in the neighborhood of 40# of various mostly pistol powders. I was thinking of 20/#. I can't take it all but I can up my stock pretty good. Everything's well packaged, all powders are sealed in their jars.

Whaddya you guys think, fair?

[Handloader109]

$20 per pound on old powder is way high imo. You can buy new at any good gun show for $18 to $25 a pound in one pound containers. Less in larger quantities. Primers, maybe... $28 is about best price right now. I'd say 12 to 15 a pound max. Open container? $5 a pound max

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[JimB..]

I’d offer $10/k on primers, $10/lb on powder, and take it all.

[Boolseye]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

[EddieZoom]

Not an issue. People have had primers soaked in floods, let them dry out completely, shot them and they all went bang.

I knew primers were tough to kill...but wow !!!

[lefty o]

I knew primers were tough to kill...but wow !!!

primer mix is made wet, and stored wet. water will not hurt it. just dont load them when they are wet.

[lightman]

I'm thinking that you are over generous. If its very old he probably paid $10/1000 or less for the primers and $10/pound or less for the powder. I would probably buy it all and mark it as such. I doubt I would use it at a match or on a hunt but otherwise I would shoot it.

[tazman]

Not an issue. People have had primers soaked in floods, let them dry out completely, shot them and they all went bang. Primers are very stable. At least the old formulations. Fiocchi is selling new formulated primers w/ a twelve year shelf life. I’ve been steering clear of them on principle alone.

I can confirm that statement from experience.
My basement flooded and the primers sat in the water for 4 days. When I got the water out, I laid out the boxes of primers(small pistol) and put a fan on them to dry them out. There were slightly over 2000 of them.
I waited about two weeks after they seemed dry to load any of them. They all shot fine.

[Boolseye]

Thanks again. I’m going over next week to do business, I’ll see what I can negotiate.
Most of this stuff is not that old, 5-8 years tops. There’s a bit of NOS too but not much.