What to do with spent primers?

[davidheart]

So umm.... I have a small box of these (the size of a 9mm-100 round value pack). What do y'all do with spent primers?

[farmerjim]

Sell them. 10'000 once fired small pistol primers. Highest bid.

[RogerDat]

I collect them and damaged worn out brass in a coffee can, take it to the scrap yard, use it like a discount coupon toward buying lead from scrap yard.

Most scrap yards will purchase primers as brass, not shotgun however, those are steel. Check with magnet.

[ravelode]

Scrap yard trade for lead

[rancher1913]

I have been saving them to use as shot if it really gets bad, but was reading about re priming them and reusing so I might try that down the road.

[44man]

Trash here, not worth anything.

[avogunner]

Stuff 'em in old shot bags. Great for the range.

[Sur-shot]

I make "sand bags" out of them using old canvas banker change bags. I have about three full bags with the tops wire twisted closed now and a partial bag inside the cabinet under the presses.
Ed

[15meter]

They go in the scrap brass bucket, I never have any problem selling them with the other range scrap.

[scattershot]

Pitch 'em in the trash.

[RogerDat]

Just remember the primer has a lead residue on it, the compounds in primers are a big source of lead. More likely to breathe in lead dust from primers in cloth bag than to get it from a casting pot.

[Digital Dan]

Keep the SRP/SPP to run the hydraulic form die for the K-Hornet.

[runfiverun]

I use the large ones as gas checks when I swage 223 bullets.
other than that they go in a bucket to see if the scrap yard will take them some day.

[Pipefitter]

The small primers will serve as a "partition" in swaged .224 bullets also. Drop a half core in the jacket with a primer cup on top, seat the core, then seat another core on top before point forming.

[Whitespider]

I throw them in the trash.
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[dkonrai]

I make "sand bags" out of them using old canvas banker change bags. I have about three full bags with the tops wire twisted closed now and a partial bag inside the cabinet under the presses.
Ed
Holy moly that's a lot of spent primers.[emoji1]

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[bedbugbilly]

I dump them in an empty plastic peanut jar with a screw on lid. When it is full, I get another empty peanut jar and dump them in that. When that gets full, I get another empty peanut jar . . . . they look nice on the back of the loading bench . . . . someday, I'll see if the scrap yard takes them in on trade . . . if not, I'll get another empty peanut jar . . . . .

I suppose if worse comes to worse, I could use 'em for "shot" out of the flintlock trade gun . . . . .

[KYCaster]

Scrap yard here treats them same as cartridge brass, but last batch I took, they found one primer that stuck to their magnet so they knocked the whole batch down to iron scrap. First SP primer I've ever seen that isn't brass.

Jerry

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I save 'em.
I have been saving them since I started reloading, and never been able to sell/trade them til... Last year, during a lead alloy swap with my friend who does metal recycling (and junk collection) as a part time business. He said he would take them (I had a 4 gallon bucket, about half full) and swap for the same value per lb, as all the dirty brass/copper that I brought him. I had the spent primers, dirty brass, and dirty copper all separated, and he just mixed 'em all into one large bin, to go to the big time metals recycler he deals with.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Scrap yard here treats them same as cartridge brass, but last batch I took, they found one primer that stuck to their magnet so they knocked the whole batch down to iron scrap. First SP primer I've ever seen that isn't brass.

Jerry
WOW ! ...note to self: run a magnet through my spent primers before I bring them to swap.

[Texas by God]

This is funny- after reading a similar thread recently- I've started saving them(after 44 yrs of tossing them). I may test them in 12 ga"less lethal" reloads.
Best, Thomas.

[ioon44]

I just dump them into a scrap brass bucket and sell them to a scrap yard about once a year or when the bucket gets full.

[Shiloh]

I have jars full of them.

Shiloh

[44man]

I have jars full of them.

Shiloh
You are rich by 50 cents.

[jcwit]

Turned mine in and they are worth a lot more than 50 cents.

[GARD72977]

I have been trashing mine. Looks like i need to start saving them.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Turned mine in and they are worth a lot more than 50 cents.
You betcha.

I don't remember exactly what my half-o-bucket weighed...it was over 20 lbs. I was given a trade value of 80¢ per lb. He gets about 60¢ per lb for lead alloys.

[runfiverun]

it wasn't too long ago scrap brass was well over 2$ a lb.

[GhostHawk]

I save mine against the day when I might need to figure out how to refil and reuse them. Recipes and chemicals are stashed. Still as long as I can buy for reasonable I will just save the used ones.

[truckerdave397]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQI2bvkE7ic

Here you go. Just reload them.

[TXGunNut]

Just started saving them a few years ago. May have enough to trade in by the time scrap metal prices recover.

[CIC]

I had never thought to save them. When I got into casting a friend provided me with a bunch of indoor range scrap. I still have all of the jackets that I skimmed off. Maybe I need to visit the scrap yard.

[whtsmoke]

There you go just the thing i keep mine for, they are deadly coming out of a short(24 inch) 62 caliber smooth bore canoe gun.

[Ron in PA]

Scrap yard for money to buy powder & primers.