I would have thought them to refuse primers due to contaminants.
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Any use for spent primers?
- Thread starter palmettomoon
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What to do with spent (used) primers?
1-- sprinkle them on cupcakes.
2-- garnish your salads with them --they'll add a shiny sparkle and give your salad some crunch!
3-- when you have saved 2 gallons of them, pour them in a rectangular tray and use that as a cat litter box.
4-- Substitute them for #4 bird shot in your 12 gauge shotshells!
1-- sprinkle them on cupcakes.
2-- garnish your salads with them --they'll add a shiny sparkle and give your salad some crunch!
3-- when you have saved 2 gallons of them, pour them in a rectangular tray and use that as a cat litter box.
4-- Substitute them for #4 bird shot in your 12 gauge shotshells!
I like!
tumbler / polisher media??
If ya got a 2 or 3" pipe, about 4 ft long, shove one end in the ground with open end pointed at target/ememy/entranceway/etc, run a fuse down to bottom with about 5ft extra, pour in 1 can XXXF, a couple Lbs of spent primers, and ya have a black powder claymore, guaranteed to stop whatever was in front of it.
I mix my primers in with other scrap copper and brass. I'm a plumber so I come across that stuff anyway
I used to have buckets of spent primers, and some of my shotgun buddies had 5 gallon buckets full. Scrap yards wouldn't take them because of risk of unfired primers.
May be different now.
We usually just "disappeared" them. Unless you have a home foundry, just don't know a use for them.
Random spent cases I pick up at the range are easy to dispose of. I just take with and when I'm passing an area of Macon known for frequent violent gang activity I just toss a handful out the window as I'm driving through.
