Spent Primers: reloading components and ammunition are unobtainium

[Brad Cobb]

Does anybody know someone hand reloading ammunition that might have spent primers I could obtain?

If you've tried to purchase ammunition or reloading components lately, they're pretty much unobtainium.

The only "work around" that I've got, is to legally make my own primers (OK in State where I reside, check your laws, YMMV).

http://www.aardvarkreloading.com/.../homemadeprimercourse...

Easier to start with spent primers, than it would be to form primer cups & anvils out of scratch, from raw materials.

Before anybody asks, no I cannot reload any ammunition or primers for you, that requires a type 6 or type 7 federal firearms license.

Primers and ammunition can legally be reloaded only for your own personal use, you can't sell nor give any away.

Spent primers? You can give those away ... they're practically worthless and most people just throw them out, when too many accumulate.

I'll gladly pay shipping to Kansas, just PM for address

 

[FROGO207]

Too late for this year. I just took a full gallon container to the scrap yard. Got $19 for them too.

 

[Brad Cobb]

Thanks ... I have feelers out, I'm sure someone will come up with some spent primers ... I just hope I don't have to go the full route and have to make my own smokeless powder, too ...

 

[Virginia Jim]

There’s an opening in a cinder block going into my garage. Probably a few thousand spent primers in there. I wish I could vacuum them out for you.
I commend you on your resourcefulness.

 

[CQB45ACP]

I would say this is a complete waste of time and effort, too risky to be worthwhile, and completely unnecessary since you can buy whatever you need or want on Gunbroker and many other places—certainly not unobtainium in all seriousness.

Now, I confess to saying the some of the same sort of things about reloading and casting a while back before I started.

Should you survive and actually successfully make some, please provide photos.

 

[Brad Cobb]

When I was a kid back in high school, I worked with the chemistry and physics teacher and we made our own fireworks, a hobby which I continue to this day.
By following precautions and strictly adhering to protocols such can be done safely.
Wiki ammo search shows that there are primers available but what used to cost $29 for five hundred or a thousand primers now being price-gouged for around $360.
No need for me to make any pictures or documentation, that's already been done, and plenty of people have preserved archived Forum threads on the results and tests that they've made with their homemade primers & smokeless powder and results in their firearms.

 

[packetloss]

https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/products/prime-all-repriming-compound

 

[Walkalong]

Good luck, be careful.