Thread: Safest Method Of Discharging Unknown Primers?

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And check all the necks inside with a bend paperclip, bend a small hook , push I to neck run around shoulder, u can feel any small cracks. U probably know this but 2 semi serious issues with unknown brass

[QUOTE=JohnDuxbury;1560271]You can do two things - you can size the cases and press them out like normal - (absolutely no problem doing that, I do it all the time. Hundreds of them. (I have primers that have been pressed out of cartridges and then reloaded three times over...) then throw them in the ocean,

But what about the dolphins....

Originally Posted by No.3

Ok, if you've oiled the inside of the cases you need to double damn make sure there isn't any oil residue left and I mean double damn make sure. Reason for that is oil traces can do funny things to the coating chemicals used on the powders to retard the burn and slow the rate at which the pressure increases when you pull the trigger, by soaking into the coatings and altering the retardant affect. Also the oil can act as a fuel source in a really hot burn. If the walnut was sticking into the cases in a glug, that's way too much oil residue for my comfort factor...

Good advice, thanks.

Originally Posted by Sharki

The pitfalls of trying to save money... If I didnt reload it, i don't fire it.
For the amount of firings u can get out of it, buy qaulity new brass. You'll save it in 2 firings, knowing u can trust your brass.

Yes, agreed. Once I get them cleaned and rezized to factory specs, and loading low powder charges, I hope to get 10 - 15 reloads out of each case. Acknowledging that split cases will still happen and those with defects will be culled.

Originally Posted by longshot

I haven't looked at second hand brass on TM for a few years now, but when I used to, for some reason, everytime you see brass advertised on TM, it is almost always 'once fired' even on multiple different listings from different sellers where the photos show three different types of primers. Partly why I stopped shopping in that particular category.
@Hugh Shields, I am happy to put your brass through my ultrasonic cleaner if you think that would be helpful with the oil. Unless someone in Wellington chimes in with a similar offer, feel free to PM me and we can figure out a way to get the brass here.

Thanks @longshot for the offer of sonic cleaning, I may take you up on that but first I'll ask the question, "Does anyone living locally around greater Wellington have a sonic cleaner which I can run the through?

In the mean time I'll soak these again in acetone and scrub the inside with a bore brush. Thanks for the collective warnings re oil inside cases. Point noted!!!!

You pull and keep projectile; powder (if known), and punch the primer out to keep the brass, or not. The iffy but still live primer goes in a plastic container labelled as such, and you chuck them in bin fires for entertainment. You can even pea-shoot them out of a bit of tube, or shoot them out of air rifles

A boring person would soak them in oil and then bin em.

Shooting em in front of air rifle pellet stuck on with a bit of bullet lube wax got me a major dust off by dad- chose the only white painted plastered outside wall, made u beaut black burns where the plaster came of brick, hr of fun, blue belt marks on ass for weeks. Well worth it @Tommy