spent primer usage?

[shaune1022]

Besides taking spent primers to the scrap yard is there any use for them? Any one use the large size to swedge into 17cal jackets or make 22cal gas checks? I'm sure someone has thought about this before.

Been out of work this week so I've done a lot of day dreaming

[Cmm_3940]

lightweight birdshot?

[geargnasher]

I got rid of a bunch one time via a frontstuffing musket. They are devastating to charging communist beverage cans inside 25 yards.

Gear

[Tech2]

Being from Seattle land of moss I will be sprinkling them liberally on my roof. The copper should leach out of the brass and be fairly good moss control. They should turn black and just about disappear within a week or two.

[DLCTEX]

There was a thread once, at least, on trying to use them for gas checks. I thought it would be easier to make them with a check maker from aluminum or copper.

[jjsharpshooter]

Wow, I was just thinking about this today as I emptied my primer catcher, have about 3000 sitting in a container waiting for someone to find a good use for them.

[btreanor]

Scrap value for the brass

[shaune1022]

I'll combine tech2, gear,and cmm's idea. Next time I visit my dad in Gig harbor WA, I'll load my front stuffer with a hand full of large and small primers and "treat" the moss on top his house. I can only imagine what his neighbors will be thinking.

[fcvan]

As a kid I used to front load SPP in my Red Ryder, and sometimes I loaded the spent ones too. Big Bang when you shoot a hard surface. Nowadays, I wouldn't think of wasting a good primer! I have a side cocking breach loader pellet rifle that is devastating with spent primers. I only shot a few but only after I removed the anvil and the residue.

[BCB]

I've saved a few the past few years too...

I used to just toss them but now I keep them as they might be worth a couple of bucks toward a 1000 more primers...

There are ~21 pounds there...

BCB

[Sgtonory]

there is at least $25 in scrap value.

[jeepyj]

I've saved a few the past few years too...

I used to just toss them but now I keep them as they might be worth a couple of bucks toward a 1000 more primers...

There are ~21 pounds there...

BCB

Heck that's better looking decoration than we have around the house. I think I'll do one of the milk jugs as a conversation piece.
Jeepyj

[bangerjim]

I used to just throw them in the garbage. Not worth my time to take them to the scrap yard.

Recently I have been saving them for me and a bunch of buddies to use in our .177 and .22 air guns! The old primers work very well for medium distances. Will take out pigeons!

GC's are sooooooooo inexpensive, why bother?

banger

[colt 357]

I save them over the summer of shooting along with any junk brass at the range and brass that got scrap in the reloading process. My son and I took it to the scrap yard and got $82.50 $8.00 of which was primers. Went to the gun store bought 2 boxes of primer and a 500 rounds of federal .22 lr and paid $12.00 out of my pocket. I also pick up brass at the range and sell it. I just traded 2000 rds of .223 for 2000 rds .40 s&w to a shooting buddy It all adds up

[Garyshome]

I would like to use them to defeat a metal detector. Just in case I wanted to hide something underground.

[Old School Big Bore]

I live next to a railroad so there are plenty of cast-off spikes to use for salting the terrain. I've been chunking them bcz I figured the scrap yards would freak if they saw them.

[45 2.1]

If you wet tumble brass in a bigger drum, they make good media with dishsoap or industrial cleaner with hot water.

[Camba]

If you like experimenting you should be able to re-use your spent primers in case there is no place to get them when you need them. See the youtube videos below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7nphPRG6JA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...&v=InnFDDdtXP4


Camba

[captaint]

I used to ponder filling a shot bag with spent primers for use as a sand bag. Then I learned of all the bad stuff in the priming mix. End of that idea. Now I just save them for scrap along with the brass. Mike