Americans reloading spent primers

[road.ripper]

I'll take up knitting before I'll start saving my spent primers for reuse.

Sorry, but I'm just not that fanatical 'bout the sport.

^^^ For the win !!!!

 

[track]

I think I'll purchase a cross bow and a compound unit as well. With Trudeau and Biden at the helm, who knows.

 

[ted_dent]

I just dropped off about 25 pounds of used primers at the scrap yard. I think I got a $1.75/pound for them. Made enough to buy another 1000 primers and was a good recycler.

 

[geologist]

Is the primer compound dangerous to handle or transport?

 

[bearhunter]

Is the primer compound dangerous to handle or transport?

The components I purchased a couple of decades back, came in the mail. Didn't even need special delivery.

 

[icecold]

More like ON something?

Yeah, it was for fun. Had a giggle or two.

 

[bearhunter]

Good on you, as long as it was fun. Had to give that sh!t up back in the eighties.

 

[icecold]

Good on you, as long as it was fun. Had to give that sh!t up back in the eighties.

You don't get it.....

I posted used once fired primers on EE just for fun. I got a few funny responses as I expected. No drugs were consumed since the eighties either.

 

[B]

Clearly there are some usable compounds out there but I really doubt there is a reliable source of actual Lead Styphnate based priming compound as is typically seen in modern primers. It is extremely poisonous and and requires great care to handle safely.

 

[IvoB]

Well at least we're not digging out our projectiles out of the berm after we fire them

 

[Ruger007]

Well at least we're not digging out our projectiles out of the berm after we fire them

I have mined the local hand gun berm...

Got about 50lbs of lead pretty quick. Made more bullets.

 

[Deathrawt]

The way things are going that’s what is going to happen next

 

[Cocked&Locked]

I just dropped off about 25 pounds of used primers at the scrap yard. I think I got a $1.75/pound for them. Made enough to buy another 1000 primers and was a good recycler.

Yup. I do that too.

 

[B]

Well at least we're not digging out our projectiles out of the berm after we fire them

Speak for yourself, though that isn't something new for me.

 

[Brassman66]

What ya mean, a hundredth Primers wont get ya trough a unting Season

Cheers

 

[jethunter]

Trying it to see if you can is a reasonable experiment and better use of time than browsing on forums.

 

[G_Alan]

I just dropped off about 25 pounds of used primers at the scrap yard. I think I got a $1.75/pound for them. Made enough to buy another 1000 primers and was a good recycler.

What did they buy it as? Mixed brass or something else?

 

[marshall]

When I had my own range, Would salvage lots of lead, But I sure would not be making primers, unless it was something like a 44 henry.
I think I have enough loaded, and new pistol ammo to last me.

 

[slarsen47]

The way things are going that’s what is going to happen next

While the current climate looks bleak in many respects, I do hold out hope that sanity and sensibility will prevail.

 

[bearhunter]

While the current climate looks bleak in many respects, I do hold out hope that sanity and sensibility will prevail.

Not when it comes to power/greed/socialism combined