Re-primed primer?

[Coldfinger]

So the other day I was curious. I'm always curious and willing to learn a new thing. So a quick Google search revealed several results. Primers reloaded using snap cap compound. You know, them little red rings of popping doodads we played with as kids. Do any of you have experience with this? Looks very time consuming to say the least and your return on it just wouldn't pan out. I was thinking then... what if you used a small amount of tannerite (sp?).

 

[Walkalong]

Y'all be careful out there.

 

[hossfly]

There's this stuff called prime all made by the same folks that do the rimfire reloading kits. It supposedly let's you reprime primers. Never tried it but did order some. I'm guessing it's corrosive and a pain but I am curious.

 

[brewer12345]

There's this stuff called prime all made by the same folks that do the rimfire reloading kits. It supposedly let's you reprime primers. Never tried it but did order some. I'm guessing it's corrosive and a pain but I am curious.

I ordered the prime-all compound along with the #11 percussion can die in order to make sure I could at least shoot black powder. The compound does definitely go bang and did just fine setting off black powder charges in a rifle. I imagine the prime all would work as a primer, but it is almost certainly corrosive.

 

[Thomasss]

There is a utube video that shows how to "reload" old primers using tips from old time wooden kitchen matches. The one that will light by striking any hard surface.

 

[Demi-human]

Wouldn’t a flintlock be immeasurably easier?

then... what if you used a small amount of tannerite (sp?).

That’s not how that works.

Nearly anything handmade is going to eat your firearm for breakfast. Ever light an initiator tipped large mortar fuse with a Bic Lighter?
The sulfur compound on the end that makes it easy to light creates a caustic compound that eats through the chrome flame guard on the lighter.
I don’t want that in my revolver. Black powder residue just attracts moisture.

Besides the fact primers are charged while the compound is still desensitized.
I wouldn’t want to try packing an anvil on ready to go mix.(Doesn’t take long to dry.)

I have seen the Prime-All. Seems expensive for the scant material received. No doubt it works for black powder firearms.

 

[somethingbenign]

Question on corrosive primers. How quickly and thoroughly do you need to clean your gun after? We talking a half hour after shooting and everything down to the firing pin or by the end of the day and just the barrel? I am seriously considering the prime all just for something else to mess around with. For $20 I've wasted money in worse ways.

 

[brewer12345]

When I shoot black powder, I generally clean the gun the same day. You need to be thorough and it should involve water.