Saving spent primers

[il Padrino]

With the price of primers going up and becoming expensive to the point where 1k primers are starting to cost more than 1k .22's I'm trying to figure out there might be a way to reload primers. I'm sure pulling the anvil, re-flatten the cup and "re-charging" the cup and re-inserting the anvil can't be all that complicated. Might be a good business ventiure for someone.

 

[il Padrino]

With the price of primers going up and becoming expensive to the point where 1k primers are starting to cost more than 1k .22's I'm trying to figure out there might be a way to reload primers. I'm sure pulling the anvil, re-flatten the cup and "re-charging" the cup and re-inserting the anvil can't be all that complicated. Might be a good business ventiure for someone.

 

[Jellybean]

The military manuals say to use "strike anywhere" match heads. Pyrotechnic books probably have a formula you can use instead.

 

[Rule3]

I think flint locks are in our future.

 

[H Richard]

I'm told that primers are a certain grade of brass, and some recyclers will buy it.

 

[Paul5388]

I usually burn all of the trash from my loading room, including spent primers. Yesterday, I noticed quite a few .22 LR type (well maybe CB cap

) sounds going off in the fire, which leads me to believe all of the priming compound isn't used up in ignition.

 

[2003flht]

I save mine. I have 1-1/2 1 gallon paint cans filled with them. I dont know why though. Seems it would be a pain to reload these. Although, i was at the dollar tree store awhile back and bought a whole bunch of those plastic caps for toy guns. got me thinking........

 

[scattershot]

I bought a book recently called Homemade Ammo that tells how to do it. Sounds like a lot of trouble, but it may just come to that.....

After all, you can make just about everything you need except cases and primers, and you can re-use cases. Once the gun grabbers figure that out, it may not be long until primers are banned or taxed out of existence.

 

[DonD]

I hope you're really not serious. Making primers isn't something for you to do in your garage.

Do you know the compound you need for the proper brisance (intensity of the primer)? And if you succeeded are you going to generate reliable reloading data using industrial grade pressure testing gear or just wing it?

Sounds like a recipe for a grenaded gun. Don

 

[2003flht]

That why i havent even tried it... yet.

BUT, if the gun-grabbers ever get there way, and primers are no more, there's always the contengiency plan....

 

[DonD]

Originally posted by 2003flht:
That why i havent even tried it... yet.

BUT, if the gun-grabbers ever get there way, and primers are no more, there's always the contengiency plan....

I understand, I think it's completely SICK that honest, law abiding citizens have to resort to extreme measures to protect our 2nd Amendment rights.

I'm so sick of the anti gun crowd going frantic and trying to take guns from the very people who never commit crimes and doing nothing useful to stop criminals from misusing firearms.

The recent rash of nutjob shooting incidents just makes our situation worse. But then, I'm preaching to the choir. Don

 

[2003flht]

yes, it is sick. and frustrating! your right about the recent shootings too, it will just add fuel to the fire. and now hilliary clinton playing the numbers games with the firearms in mexico has unkowning people agreeing with her. "90% of all guns that the cartels use come from the USA." my ***... i saw on the news where they investigated that statement and found that 10% of the TOTAL guns that had serial numbers, 90% of those were traced back to the USA.

just another attack on our freedom......

 

[44forever]

Some years back I loaded some .44s using the strike anywhere match tips for priming compound and improvized substitute powder. I was able to get a 240 grain bullet up to just over 600 feet per second, not a great but a useful power level for self defense. I didn't load a lot of them but the failure to fire rate was about 4%. With practice and experimentation, I think I could have improved on that but it was an educational experience, none the less. Iginition time seemed slower than normal but I could live with it.

 

[TN RAT]

A guy was telling me he tried the strike anywhere matches to reload primers. He started with the complete match head and found a slight tendency to not go off.

He began using only the white compound on the match head and discovered a 100% reliable method for igniting every time.

His testing went no farther than that.

 

[canoe on the yukon]

If anyone here is really serious,I have two books on primer making in my personal library.I've had them for several years and assume they are still in print.Neither of them discusses the use of match heads,etc or anything of such a crude nature.

Primer cookbook......M&M engineering 802-375-9484

The poor man's primer manual......George B.Dmitrieff......In spite of the name,this manual is a very thorough work on primer manufacture......published by Desert publications

 

[walnutred]

In my less rational youth I experimented with using spent primers in place of shot. As would be expected they worked fine a closer ranges but lost velocity fast.

 

[Landric]

You know folks, I'm not putting some sort of reloading component ban past the current wackos in charge of our country, but we are mostly doing this shortage to ourselves.

The reason the gun grabbers give us for the "need" for gun control is to reduce crime. We all know it doesn't (and so do they), but that is the reason they stick with. Given that, in order to sell a ban on components, they have to sell the idea that criminals handload ammunition to use in the commission of crime.

I'm working on my 13th year as a police officer. I've never run across a criminal that handloads and I haven't been able to find any other officer that has. The reason is simple, they don't. Can anyone really see the powers that be trying to sell the idea that this happens: "Hey Jimmy, lets go shoot up the Crips down the street". "OK, Bobby, but let me head down to the basement and load up some .380 for the job, I have some new 100 grain flat points I have been dying to try out on the Crips".

They can't really use the terrorist angle, smokeless powder isn't explosive, and the terrorists aren't handloading in the basement either (though they might be in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan). It would be easier to sell a ban on fertilizer and diesel fuel.

We know that our current "leader" hates private gun ownership, but in order to go forward with a ban on reloading components he and his cronies are actually going to have to admit that they want to ban the stuff because they do not trust honest citizens with it. They cannot prove that reloading components are used by criminals because they are not.

Once they admit that, all bets are off.

 

[mtb1bkr]

I don't see an outright ban on components happening, but if they are successful in getting the bull crap microstamping laws passed, then reloading will be all but outlawed.

Bill