Thread: Do you keep your old primers?

Know a guy that has a 4l juice bottle full of old primers from loading.
Myself am onto beer bottle #3 in last 12 months.. mostly small primers.

Apparently scrappies will take them - copper?
A beer bottle weighs shitloads when full

Anyone else?

No, but will from now on if they are worth something!

G'Day Fella's,

Copper? No Spanners, BRASS!!!
Thought you were supposed to know this kinda basic stuff???
If I find the time, I'll take an image of this years used ones over the weekend and post it.

Doh!
Homer

Originally Posted by Tussock

I collect them on the bottom of my feet when I go into the shed barefoot, does that count? There are a shitload inside the shed vacuum, along with quite a lot of spilt powder, and a fair few dropped fresh primers.

Sounds like my reloading room. Drives the cook mad and I had to clean it up last time I was home. It would have been suicide if you were a smoker to flick ash on my floor.

Didnt know primers were made of copper. Would have thought steel or brass.

Originally Posted by Homer

Thought you were supposed to know this kinda basic stuff???

Pretty condescending attitude there mate. Not particularly welcoming to new members.

I personally wouldn't have a clue what primers are made of. I buy loaded rounds, put them in my rifle, and point it at animals.

Originally Posted by Homer

G'Day Fella's,

Copper? No Spanners, BRASS!!!
Thought you were supposed to know this kinda basic stuff???
If I find the time, I'll take an image of this years used ones over the weekend and post it.

Doh!
Homer

Thanks for your input Homer
Wolf and Tula to name a few both, made/make copper cupped primers
Some companies use cartridge brass, and given that brass is ~70% copper.....

Originally Posted by Homer

G'Day Fella's,

Copper? No Spanners, BRASS!!!
Thought you were supposed to know this kinda basic stuff???

Doh!
Homer

Lesson number 1 on how to make friends & influence people, not to mention get taken off the X-mas card list....... Doh!

I have a couple of jars of them as well as a heap of older cases.... When I fill a bucket I might take it over

Damn I just had a clean out and binned a jam jar full, might have to start collecting


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Originally Posted by Tussock

I collect them on the bottom of my feet when I go into the shed barefoot, does that count? There are a shitload inside the shed vacuum, along with quite a lot of spilt powder, and a fair few dropped fresh primers.

cooool,did you build that rocket motor mister?

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Lesson number 1 on how to make friends & influence people, not to mention get taken off the X-mas card list....... Doh!

...and now..........cue inevitable retraction.....

Originally Posted by James

...and now..........cue inevitable retraction.....

Or pray for another server crash


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Mine just lay all over the Garage floor.

I have a universal deprimer ( for LR primers) set up with a jar lid screwed to the underside of the bench so the primers drop into the jar. SR primers are done with Wilson dies and they get put in the jar when the depriming base get full. I used to have so many on the floor that I decided to do something about it, not for any other reason than to keep them from underfoot.

Von Gruff.

Originally Posted by Josh

Pretty condescending attitude there mate. Not particularly welcoming to new members.

I personally wouldn't have a clue what primers are made of. I buy loaded rounds, put them in my rifle, and point it at animals.

get over yourself...... next you'll be offending Spanners by inferring he's a "new member"

DOH!