What is easiest way to destroy primer?

[blarby]

What is easiest way to destroy primer?

In a boxer primed case/primer,

Remove the anvil.

You now have an inert primer, for all practical discussion. In removing the anvil, you probably dislodged the pellet, which makes this one double dead.

I have no idea how to do it with a berdan primer- and im not reusing that brass anyway.

If you really need to go further, take a qtip full of bore solvent and scrape out the compound. Then, find some way to safely dispose of the Q-Tip. Good luck on that one, in compliance with the law, in any state starting with CALI and ending with FORNIA.

Given that you are in MO, you could probably use it as a really crappy torch for a few seconds.

Yeah! Re-use them. After doing thirty of them you have saved yourself a well earned buck!

I dun know how you value your time, but someone here has a good sig line about what people will do to save money.......

Now, if you have NO primers- thats not a money save, its an ability, which is different.

Deprime, colate, install in priming device, prime....... I dunno, but I value my time more !

 

[BruceB]

"Re-using" primers is a totally-false economy.

WHO KNOWS:

-what type are they (standard? magnum?)

-how old are they?

-how well were they stored?

-were they somehow damaged in the de-priming process?

The above factors lead me to agree with the posters who simply say, "Dispose of them!"

The paltry amount of money "saved" could turn out to be very costly indeed.

 

[el indio]

spray the case with wd40 to kill the primer

 

[jcwit]

-what type are they (standard? magnum?)

Who cares? Load down 5/10%, and use them.

-how old are they?

So what! I'm still using primers made in the 1940's

-how well were they stored?

Makes little difference as long as they are now dry. Priming compound is placed in the cup wet at time of manufacture.

-were they somehow damaged in the de-priming process.

Visually check them, not hard to check.

The paltry amount of money "saved" could turn out to be very costly indeed.

How so? Elaborate, preferably from experience.
Remember a penny saved is a penny earned or in this case it may be a dollar saved is a dollar earned.

 

[GBExpat]

What is easiest way to destroy primer?

Pull the trigger ...

 

[gamestalker]

I tend to agree with BruceB, if I don't know anything about the primers, they get tossed. I have been reloading for about 3 decades, and to date, I have had zero mis-fires or primer related failures of sort. I would like to maintain that track record, and will not use someone else's primed brass, I don't know what they are, and how they were handled / stored.

Either pull the bullets and powder, and then fire them in the chamber, or deprime them on the press.

GS

 

[Rangemaster]

Smash with hammer always works for me.

Just wear eye protection and hearing protection.

 

[jmr40]

Pull the trigger ...

And we have a winner. I wouldn't worry about it. I've deprimed quite a few live primers with no issues. Even if it were to somehow detonate it won't have enough power to do much and everything would be contained inside the dies.

But if you are truly concerned simply chamber them, point the muzzle in a safe direction and pull the trigger, then deprime.

 

[James2]

I would pull the bullets and toss them in the lead pot. The lead can be re-used. As far as the primers just leave them in the brass. Remove the de-capping pin when sizing. Load those brass however you want. May as well get some good out of those primers.