What do you do with spent primers?

trash can. don't over think this.

I’ve actually had good luck recycling them with brass. I take the primers in when my scrap brass bucket gets full and they’ve always taken it

I fill empty powder containers with them to use as bookends

Take them to the range and mark the can. “Free Primers”

I keep mine in a glass jar --



RIP RCModel...

But seriously, I'm storing them until I can make it to a recycler and turn it into cash or lead.

Mine drop down a tube from my LNL into a plastic water bottle; once full, I put a cap on and in the trash it goes. Now, spent 209 primers are big enough that they get stuffed into canvas cloth 25# shot bags, sewn shut and used as benchrest bags. Lighter than sand-filled and just as steady and secure.

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Walkalong said:

Save them up and sell them with other scrap brass.
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Scrap brass price is well worth the space a 5 gallon bucket takes up in the corner for 3 years.

The only thing you should be careful NOT to do is eat them.

I dump my primer catcher in a big military case and my damaged cases in another big military case.
When they get full I dump them into plastic buckets to take to the recycle center when the price is high enough.
But I handle lots of brass cases a year and collect a lot of scrap cases compared to the average Joe.

I usually just bedazzle my jeans or whatever OWB holsters I have lying around. I find a mix of CCI mixed with WLR contrast well.

I have enough crap in my space to keep spent primers. To the trash they go!

These are mine so far

Primers are quite dense for their size. You would be surprised how much a gatorade bottle weights. Recycle them. Helps re-coupe some of your cost. My current stash is over a qt size.

They go in jars and whenever I take something to the recycling place and I have a good amount, they get turned into cash.

Cokeman said:

These are mine so far

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Hey, I see one that hasn't been fired.

Which one?

I am saving mine in a milk jug. When it gets full I will get an estimate of how many there are by weight (weigh a pound worth, count them, then weigh all the primers and multiply). This will be the way I estimate how many rounds have reloaded, as time passes. I will write the number of primers and date filled/counted on the jug. My only separating/sorting will be small spent primers in one jug and large primers in another.

They can be used as a buffer in a 12 gauge to fire a load of two previously fired 45 auto bullets. No real practical purpose to it, but they make a satisfying whistling sound going down range.

Mine get vacuumed from the Lee 1000 press I use to decapping-resize-flare and go in the trash.

Stay safe.

Cokeman said:

Which one?

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37 rows from the bottom, 17th from the left.



My Lee turret drops the spent primers into a half gallon milk jug that lives under the bench. When full, it's probably 10 pounds or more. It goes to the recycling center, and traded for lead.