Disposing of used primers?

[littleriver1]

What do you do with all the used primers you end up with after decapping all those reloads?

 

[elpac3]

ordinary trash

 

[Bkreutz]

They're brass. they go in the bucket I take to the recycler.

 

[David Sinko]

I recycle them. Some scrappers take them, some do not. They tell me they need to check every one individually to make sure it's not live, though I'm not sure I believe that.

Dave Sinko

 

[varmint243]

I save mine as a record of how much reloading I have done
kept in containers such as two liter coke bottles

 

[s&wchad]

Primers are made of brass and have recycling value somewhere between $1.50 and $2 per pound. I've been dumping them in a box for years and plan on taking it to a scrap dealer along with my scrap brass casings.

Throw any shotgun primers away, I understand they won't take them. Pity, I've probably got over twenty pounds of those.

 

[X Ring]

Metal scrap yard gets them with wore out/no longer loadable brass cases and I get $1.90 a pound. Enough to buy some primers or powder. I have even traded them, 1 lb brass for 2 lb lead.

 

[SAFireman]

recycled brass......same with damaged shell casings....get some of your $$$ back

 

[MN2944]

I toss them in the trash. Not enough value to save, in my opinion.

 

[littleriver1]

ok, thanks. I was hoping they could be recycled.

 

[hanno]

recycled brass......same with damaged shell casings....get some of your $$$ back

Agreed. Saved them over the years until I had a bunch then took them to the scrap yard with a lot of other scrap.

 

[lebomm]

Same here. I collect 'em in an old 1-lb grease tin, shake them in an old soup strainer to get rid of as much residue as possible, then toss 'em into the scrap brass bucket.

Larry

 

[1HUNTERATWORK]

I take them and sell them for scrap. A 5 gallon pail will buy more!

 

[m657]

They're brass. they go in the bucket I take to the recycler.

most certainly!!!

 

[Nemo288]

I don't like keeping them around because of the lead compounds in the soot.
Maybe I am paranoid.
I once had a can of pure tetraethyllead in my high compression motorcycle days.
Gives my the willies just thinking about how that could have gone wrong.

===
Nemo

 

[chief38]

I sprinkle them on my ice cream. mmmmmmm

Trash.

 

[Smith&WessonM629C]

I use them in shot shell reloads out of my Mossburg 500 makes a really good skeet or rabid animal stopper. 19 gr of Hogdon Clays.

 

[mikld]

I keep a "scrap bucket" in my shop, a small 3 gal pail. I dump the dead primers outta my press into the bucket along with junk cases and rimfire cases (sometimes when shooting my 10-22 near my truck, empties ejected will land in the bed). I takes a lot of primers to fill up the pail so it won't be a weekly, monthly, but mebbe an annual task to recycle them...

 

[bamacisa]

I throw them in the trash. Not enough value to fool, with.

 

[Moe Mentum]

Goes in the brass scrap bucket with old shell casings etc.