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Curious about making up some powder less bullets for western style belt, was thinking it would look better with primers that are unstruck. What is the option for primers that look .....right.....i.e. Unstruck , without using live primers. Or is it a problem....is it a live round for display purposes with an unstruck primer?
 
Any penetrating oil would render the primers inert & the cup cleaned out. The "problem" is no one else would know they are not live rounds.
 
StoneHorse said:
Any penetrating oil would render the primers inert & the cup cleaned out. The "problem" is no one else would know they are not live rounds.
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So the problem is not that the primer is live, but that someone may think the round is live? Rather like some moron in CTC thinking the 50 cal bottle opener may be live.....ie. If it looks like a duck...etc.

I guess what I am asking is the live primer legally a problem, as surely that is safer than a live round in the belt, when on display?
 
I shoot some rounds primer only. Not enough to kill a man but can certainly put out an eye. Don't know if primer only would be considered a live round. My assumption, in the current lieberal atmosphere, is that it would meet the lieberal definition.
 
I would think the biggest issue would be a mistaken "swap" with a live round and getting a bullet jammed in a firearm barrel... and the following round possibly catastrophic.

I would suggest a fake primer or a disabled primer for sure.
 
Oils do not always deactivate modern primers. I soaked some in kroil and some in wd40 for several days and 80% still went bang. The older reloading books warned of getting oil on primers and though not a great practice in reloading it is not a foolproof method of deactivating primers.
 
hunter5425 said:
Oils do not always deactivate modern primers. I soaked some in kroil and some in wd40 for several days and 80% still went bang. The older reloading books warned of getting oil on primers and though not a great practice in reloading it is not a foolproof method of deactivating primers.
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A friend of mine did a similar test and had the same results. You could maybe take the anvils out of some spent primers and whack the pin mark out with a punch. Then you would never have to worry about the possibility of having an accidental squib load.
 
If I tried to assemble inert rounds I would use case with fired primers and drill holes on the side.With that there will be zero possibility of mistaking it for live round.

I really don't feel like arguing with range officers or God forbid LEO about it.
 
1- Wait for your wife to leave the house (or don't, depends how much you like your wife)
2- Scatter a few primers around your reloading area on the floor
3- Grab a vacuum and decide to clean up around your reloading area
4- Change your shorts
5- Collect your inert primers from the vacuum
 
Dunno if the look would be correct, but take a spent primer and use a punch and hammer
out the dent the firing pin made to the spent primer?
Not sure how well this would work and if the primers would stay in the primer pockets there in.
 
Get yourself some steel or brass rod the same diameter as the primer, round off the edges with sandpaper (you can place the rod in a drill to do this), cut to length, and epoxy in place. No one will know the difference.
 
Now that the can/can not question have been answered good time to ask should you be carrying around "replicas".
 
Take how ever many primers you need and do the following.

1. remove the anvil and little paper circle under it.
2. either take a bbq lighter and ignite the primer compound or use gun powder and make a trail leading up to the primer and over it. light the gun powder.
3. insert the anvil back into the primer.
4. load the primer into the case.


The primer compound will make a poof instead of a bang and your left with an inert primer.


kamlooky said:
Dunno if the look would be correct, but take a spent primer and use a punch and hammer
out the dent the firing pin made to the spent primer?
Not sure how well this would work and if the primers would stay in the primer pockets there in.
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the primers will fit like then did before unless you hammer it to much, but you will never get rid of the primer strike. when i reloaded some 38spl using strike anywhere matches as the priming compound and the rest of the match as gun powder this is how they came out.
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Prime an empty case.
Set the case, base down, on a dry pan.
set the pan, with the primed case in it, on the kitchen range and turn the heat on under the pan.
After the fairly loud pop, turn off the heat and you have a brass case with a normal looking primer in it, but harmless.
 
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