Yesterday, I made a bunch of bullet key chains for my Ukrainian friends out of Wolf 7.62x39 steel cased ammo by pulling the bullets and drilling out the primer sockets.
I learned something really interesting about Russian ammo.
I really hate having a primer go off on me while I am drilling out the primer socket, so when I do this with American ammo, I soak the inside of the shell in water to get the primer wet before popping it out.
However, you cannot pop burden primers out (that I know of) but I tried soaking them so that it would at least be dead by the time I drilled it out.
After the desperate measure of soaking my 3rd try in water for 10 minutes, I just gave up. 10 minutes soaking and the primers still go off as if I hadn't soaked them at all. A pain in the butt if you are making key chains, but a very good sign to those who intend to use the ammo in their guns which is what caught my interest.
I tried to figure out how and found that the insides of the shells were coated with some red oil, but the oil could be seen in the water while the shells were soaking indicating that it may have not been stationary. In any case, the oil is my best theory. Do any of you guys know how they do this?
I learned something really interesting about Russian ammo.
I really hate having a primer go off on me while I am drilling out the primer socket, so when I do this with American ammo, I soak the inside of the shell in water to get the primer wet before popping it out.
However, you cannot pop burden primers out (that I know of) but I tried soaking them so that it would at least be dead by the time I drilled it out.
After the desperate measure of soaking my 3rd try in water for 10 minutes, I just gave up. 10 minutes soaking and the primers still go off as if I hadn't soaked them at all. A pain in the butt if you are making key chains, but a very good sign to those who intend to use the ammo in their guns which is what caught my interest.
I tried to figure out how and found that the insides of the shells were coated with some red oil, but the oil could be seen in the water while the shells were soaking indicating that it may have not been stationary. In any case, the oil is my best theory. Do any of you guys know how they do this?