For lack of a more appropriate place I put this here. Do you save your spent primers for recycling or trash them?
I have about 10 lbs. ready to go to the recycler.
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For lack of a more appropriate place I put this here. Do you save your spent primers for recycling or trash them?
I have about 10 lbs. ready to go to the recycler.
Anything brass goes in the recycle bucket. Primers are segregated by type for re-priming experiments.
My local recycler doesn't accept primers. I had to beg to get him to take cartridge brass
At the local recycler, fired primers bring a little less than half what fired cases bring. That means a trip with only fired primers is not particularly a good return, but taken along with other metals, it is better than just putting them in the trash. I suspect convenience and a buyer that will take them has more to do with it than the money.
I keep a few on hand, in case it comes down to reloading them. Otherwise, they go in the recycling bucket with the rest of the brass.
Nope, they get trashed.
I have over 20 pounds of spent primers and a 2.5 gallon bucket of scrap cartridge cases. I need to get motivated to take them to the scrap yard.
Guess I'm unusual here... I keep all mine, they are brass and just as viable melted as casings. I make all kind of things with the brass recovery
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There are people who would like to buy them here:
https://mewe.com/join/primerreloading
They work as pellets in pellet gun
I keep mine, not sure what I'll do with them. They make good filler for shooting sandbags, a lot cheaper and not as heavy as bird shot.
I used some for tumbling media. Worked fine.
I learned how to "reload " them ...
Forgot the primer shortage so soon ?
My what short memories some have .
Gary
I shoot them out of my 22 cal air rifle.
Live primers will actually go bang against a hard wall/surface! But the shrapnel is unpredictable. Live ones do work for chasing off unwanted animals, as long as they are in front of a brick wall. But with the price of primers these days, I do not so much of that.
Save mine, take them to recycle when I get a big container of brass.
mine go in the junk
I have enough bad habits saving spent primers isn't going to be another
yes saving and reloading them with H-48 homemade compound , they are as accurate as any factory primers