What is easiest way to destroy primer?

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I'm picking up brass at a range and many times I get loaded rounds. I'm not going to shoot someone's reloads, so I get rid of bullets powder and want to keep brass. I want to put it into fired brass jar to wash with all other brass (I wet tumbe with SS pins)

Is there any chemical or something I can use on those primers so they don't go off on me when I reload later?
 
There is no reason to worry about the primers. They are made to only ignite when struck firmly against the outer side of the cup. Decap slowly and load as usual, really...
 
Why not just deprime and reuse them?

Otherwise, have some fun and hot them with a hammer (like a more potent version of those old red strips of caps)
 
You could just keep the primed brass, that's what I do with really bad factory ammo.
But if you really want to kill the primers, soak them in oil. Water won't kill 'em like oil will, water will evaporate out.
 
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There is no reason to worry about the primers. They are made to only ignite when struck firmly against the outer side of the cup. Decap slowly and load as usual, really...
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This is what I thought, I know it's fine if I deprime slowly. I don't "jerk" or anything, but I can go pretty fast with case feeder, I was just wondering what is the risk of primer going off. Again, this is after washing in water with SS pins... I guess I shouldn't even worry about it..
 
If the primer compound is wet it's stable. You can do almost anything you want to it without ignition as long as it doesn't dry out.

When they make primers they use wet compound. If doesn't become active until they dry them out. Same thing when they charge 22 rimfire cases, wet compound is safe, dry compound it volatile.
 
Deprime the old primers, new or used and throw them away. Why waste the time and effort trying to make them inert ? If you aren't wanting to reuse them the garbageman isn't going to care if there are primers in that can or not.
 
I don't necessary want to make them "inactive". I want to make sure they don't go off when I will be loading in my progressive press
 
Why in the world would you want to destroy it as expensive as they're getting? Deprime and reuse those suckers.

This is what I thought, I know it's fine if I deprime slowly. I don't "jerk" or anything, but I can go pretty fast with case feeder, I was just wondering what is the risk of primer going off.
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If it didn't go off when it was pushed in, it aint gonna go off when its pushed out. (This statement is shamelessly stolen from rcmodel) :)
 
Yeah! Re-use them. After doing thirty of them you have saved yourself a well earned buck! It adds up.
 
I don't necessary want to make them "inactive". I want to make sure they don't go off when I will be loading in my progressive press
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After de-priming and then re-priming with them, they will be no more likely to go off while loading on your progressive than primes fresh out of the box.
 
Maybe before 2008 I would consider throwing a good primer away but since then I wouldn't throw one away unless someone gave me 2 in it's place. (and even then I might fish it out of the trash when they leave) I'm cheap and primers are expensive, they all get loaded! :neener:
 
What ever you do with them is of little concern, deprime on the press, or detonate them in the chamber, just don't deliberately detonate them with a hammer or other object outside of the confines of a chamber. I used to think they were little more than a flash, like that of a cap gun. Not at all the case, I tossed one in the Bar BQ years ago thinking it would just go bang, it blew a hole through the side of it.

GS
 
it blew a hole through the side of it.
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Pay attention to this!!

A single primer going off unconfined can allow the cup or anvil to shoot your eye out, and then some!!

rc
 
Putting them in a BBQ grill may also not be a good idea due to the lead based priming compound...
 
Yup, primers are serious business. Each is a tiny packet of high explosive. Good thing they are so well-protected in the cups. Which is also why aggregated "naked" primers in a container can be so dangerous. If they are all in close contact with each other there is a distinct possibility of sympathetic detonation of all of them if just one goes off.

Shipping packaging and progressive priming systems are designed to try and reduce that risk.
 
can you remove the de-capping pin from your sizing die???? i mean why de-prime them just to turn around and re-prime them with the same primers.... that would seem like wasted time spent to me
 
My reloading process is very simple. I get brass, put sort it by size and put in jars.

As soon as I have enough to clean I put them into tumbler with SS pins and clean it.

As soon as it's dry I put them into "clean" jars.

When I'm ready to load - I load 500-1000 at a time and don't want to worry about one or two pieces with live primers.

All I want is to reuse brass from those rounds picked up at the range. It can be like 2-3-4 pieces in 1000. I don't feel like wasting my time and taking decapping pin for that. I also don't want to put live rounds in a trash.

I guess I can always take rounds apart and put components in a trash, but I'd rather keep this brass :)

Again, I don't want to treat those differently when I'm loading. I don't want to store them differently or even worry about those. It's easier to just throw them away...
 
If you really want to get rid of the primers, you can deprime safely on just about any press I've seen or heard of. Just make sure you dispose of the primers safely afterward. The previously mentioned oil soaking trick is wise.

I'm a penny pinching Reloader sometimes, and I personally wouldn't get rid of the bullets, myself, though I wouldn't trust ANY powder I haven't met before or loaded myself. But if your determined to not use the bullets, send 'me my way;)
 
Bullets - yes.. I would use them if I knew what they are. They all different weight and type. I don't think it makes sense to sort through this stuff when you have handful of them.. Brass is universal
 
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