What do I do with all these spent shotgun primers?

[Just Duke]

What do I do with all these spent shotgun primers?
Did I see someone one time that needed them for bullet jackets?

[tomme boy]

Some people use them to tumble their brass. I just throw them in the steel scrap bucket.

[gnoahhh]

Dump a handful down the bore of a blunderbuss?

[snuffy]

The battery cup and anvil of a shotshell primer are made of steel. The center cup is brass. So, recycling them would be mixed metal. Not sure what happens when smelting steel scrap that has brass in it.

They would be UN-useable for bullet jackets.

Shoot 'em in a slingshot, then listen to them whistle!

[firefly1957]

I use them in my sling shot to chase things off they make a whistling sound a bit like a bullet passing the subject weather man or animal. Do not use many that way though.

[colt 357]

OK I now have the answer to your question. I bought brass primers for reloading. what ever name brand is your choice. I collected the all shooting season while reloading. Then I sold them for scrap brass. Almost $12.00 primers. then $54.00 in scrap brass shell. Now with $270.00 in change that I saved for a total of $336.00 I went and bought powder and primers

[snuffy]

OK I now have the answer to your question. I bought brass primers for reloading. what ever name brand is your choice. I collected the all shooting season while reloading. Then I sold them for scrap brass.


He's asking about spent SHOTSHELL primers. they're mostly made of steel.
You COULD spend the time and effort to punch the brass cup out of the outside steel battery cup, then add that to your scrap brass bucket. Do that, report back on whether it's fun or not!:groner:

[starmac]

Your pretty artistic. String them together to wrap the christmas tree. Unlike popcorn, they would last a lifetime and have that gunpowder fragrance everybody loves. lol

[tomme boy]

If you sold the heads off of the hulls to the scrap yard for brass, you ripped them off. The heads on all shotshells are steel now. Take a magnet to them. The primers are all steel also.

[fixit]

lotta work, but you can punch the innards out of them and reload them with large rifle/pistol primers. not sure if you'd want to, but it works, in a pinch. by the way, it's a good alternative for over powered muzzleloading shotgun primers

[shotman4]

Put them around rose bushes for Iron. The primer in most shot shell primers a bit larger than a large rifle/pistol. and then you would have to get the anvel out.
next ALL shotshells are not steel. Most of the high brass stuff is still brass. Thats why you pay $12+ a box

[tomme boy]

They used to be brass. Take a magnet to them.

[Y2K]

Drop your shot charge by 1/8th oz and throw 2 primers in. Clays don't know what hit them.

[1Shirt]

Years ago, a friend of mine had a blunderbuss as suggested, and we did shoot a bunch of spent primers out of it. Really tore up an old bushel basket at about 15 yards!
1Shirt!

[Just Duke]

Thanks guys. Thought maybe some could use them. They went out to the trash last week.