depriming live primers

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Just for the legal types here, baaaaaaad idea.....
A stove? Hmmm, Christmas carol coming in...."Deprimed primers popping on an open fire, shrapnel ripping off your nose...."
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Thanks for pointing that out. I'm sure many people come here for legal advice...
 
You won't detonate 'em with a hammer. (I tell you, it works 100%.) You can't bury 'em (and I don't reccommend that anyhow.) Pcf has demonstrated that no solvent reliably kills 'em (especially water--don't throw 'em into the lake.)
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I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just yet, the test was for overnight exposure (12 hours). MEK was the most effective, and I'm pretty sure that a couple days in it would have killed all the primers.

The testing continues with Winchester primers and loaded rounds, and MEK and WD-40 and long term exposure to solvent (3 and 7 days), results will follow.
 
I'm lucky, I have an unlimited supply of range brass, so saving the cases isn't worth the time or energy. The powder and bullets from the few loaded rounds are not worth my time to dissassemble them. YMMV

I've opted for a variation of Option #4. I now take the reject rounds to the indoor range and add them to the "floor sweepings" bucket, which contains brass, unburned powder, and loaded rounds. The ammo in there isn't fired, just disposed of when full. No muss, no fuss.
 
Question: How will you have flying shrapnel if you toss one or two into a cast iron pot bellied stove through the lift plate on top? I've seen him do it and all you get is a subdued pop. As stated before...We are not dealing with large amounts of high explosives here. There is just a little more primer compound in a primer then in one of the cap pistol cap rolls and I used to hit them with a hammer when I was a kid... :eek:
 
Ya think??? L O L :D

We have been discussing deprimming worries in this string. Which has been the least of my worries in my 20 years of reloading.
I have another fear that haunts me every time I prime a case. Occasionally one goes in a bit hard and you hear a snap as it seats. My concern has been over the years is crushing the primer mixture and having it fall into the powder and not be where it is supposed to be when the firing pin strikes. So far this hasn't happened to me (so much for my fear). Anyone ever have it happen or heard of it happening???

I figure I deprime about 1% of the thousands of cases that I prime and the chances are greater for a crushed primer mix...
 
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If the priming compound fractures and falls away from the anvil then the primer wouldn't work.

Take your snap primed case and turn it upside down on a clean piece of white paper. If nothing falls out then there's nothing to fall into the powder.
 
Bluesbear...Yer talkin' to me again. Thanks. I kinda figured that, although I do have a little different method. because I only load in batches of 20 rifle and 50 pistol/revolver I return the primed cases to their respective plastic box. When it's time to load them I upend the box. So far. No crushed primers. Tough little critters. I was just wondering if someone might have had that problem. :)
 
The best way I've heard of to dispose of live primers, or loaded ammo is to mix up a batch of cement, put ammo into a coffee can and pour in cement.
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can't you take them to a shooting range and they will dispose of them there?
 
Once you deprime a live primer, can you use it again? Say if you took the cartridge apart because the brass was bad or something?
 
I just de-primed 2 Fiocchi .357 cases that 'wrinkled' in the Lee powder-thru-expander die. slow and easy got them out OK but I did indeed put on goggles. I re-seated the primers in good cases.
if primers werent so scarce (and costly) I would not have gone to the trouble.
 
Back in the day...BE (before internet) when I was a teenager we once put live shotgun rounds on the woodstove :what: and bet who's would go off first! Beer + youth = STUPID (and lucky). At least we were at the other end of the camp at the time of ignition. I was one of the loosers and had to pay to repair walls and roof.:eek: Most of the shell parts did not go too far but were they ever LOUD.


Disclaimer: Learn from me DO NOT do this EVER !!
 
Yeah, you can deprimed them with the normal sizer or a deprimer die. I've done quite a few, never had one go off. Of course, now that I've said that.... Anyway, where eye protection and you'll be fine.
 
I just screw in a universal depriming die, put on gloves, eyes and ears and make sure there is nothing flammable in the immediate area and go to it. If they get set off, they get set off. It's a primer, for crying out loud, not like it's going to blow the side off the garage. That being said, I've yet to have one go bang.
 
I just screw in a universal depriming die, put on gloves
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what kind of gloves? and I never heard of a universal depriming die? does LEE make one? or are you talking about the same die that takes out the already spent primer? too different kind of dies?
 
Have you guys noticed...

That this thread is almost 4 years old, until today??? The OP surely has his problem solved long ago.

A universal depriming die is exactly that--a die that deprimes any case. That's all it does, BTW, unlike a full-length or neck sizing die, which deprimes in addition to resizing. Sometimes there is a need to ONLY deprime, and some reloaders like to separate the 2 operations.

Any pair of work gloves will protect the hands when removing live primers. It is also recommended to wear ear and eye protection.

But, hey, guys, this has all been covered before. Why do we need to re-hash it?

The search function is your friend.
 
That this thread is almost 4 years old, until today??? The OP surely has his problem solved long ago.
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Smokey Joe,

Can't explain why guys like to resurrect old threads. I suspect it's because they are too timid to start their own thread.

Don
 
Have you guys noticed...
That this thread is almost 4 years old, until today
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So What? Have primers changed in the last four years?
The OP surely has his problem solved long ago
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So What? The original poster was the only one that reloaded?
But, hey, guys, this has all been covered before. Why do we need to re-hash it?
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What? It's been covered by an old timer like you but it hasn't been covered by people that are half your age maybe not.
The search function is your friend.
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Dude! Listen to yourself. How do you think I even found this post? I googled primers.

Can't explain why guys like to resurrect old threads. I suspect it's because they are too timid to start their own thread.
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Old Thread new thread what's the difference. A thread is a thread. I'm not too timid to say you guys have the wrong attitude when it comes to helping out new people. You should be more concerned that people are reloading correctly and not whether the same question was asked before or not.
 
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