Disposing of live primers

[sitsinhedges]

Just wondering what the safest and most legal way of disposing of the odd few live primers.

 

Didn't think the dustbin was a good idea though I do put empty cases and used primers in there.

 

What's the best option :look:

[Cannon]

Or you could maybe throw them in the sea?

[Floating Chamber]

What a bloody daft question! Load them! Or give them to someone who reloads! Jesus wept! They're like gold these days!

Edited August 26, 2009 by Floating Chamber

[Blunderbuss]

Fill up a jar or tin with used motor oil or the like and immerse them, leave them for a few days then drain them and chuck them in the bin.

Old wives tale which dates from the turn of the century mercury fulminate primers. Doesn't work reliably with modern foil/varnish encapsulated lead stypthnate primers. At least 50% will still go bang after a month in oil. :look:

[sitsinhedges]

What a bloody daft question! Load them! Or give them to someone who reloads! Jesus wept! They're like gold these days!

 

You want me to reload unknown components :look:

 

Who's going to buy me a new gun when this one goes pop?

[Whizzy]

Why not just load em into "spare" cases, no other component and fire em off ?

[casts_by_fly]

or pop them into your RFD next time you're around. Seems like the most legal and easiest way.

 

Alternatively I'd dig a hole and bury them with some salt water.

 

Thanks,

Rick

[Zapp]

I'd go for oil :look:

 

ZB

[Billy.]

Shoot them. Good target practice.

 

Basically just give them to someone who needs them if you don't have a rifle to target them with.

[MJN]

Wasn't there a link to a utube video test on here a short while back ?

where a guy does the tests on covering primers with WD40, motor oil and the like , leaving them for a long period and then trying them, I forget the results but somethings worked well others didn't.

M.

[monkeymagic1969]

Chuck em in a pond when next out shooting - Simples :look:

[bobt]

stick them on a bonfire,

 

they will go pop thats all.

 

dont throw them in water or bury them.

[ST3V3]

whack them with a hammer :look:

[MJN]

I found a link to primers and oil

http://www.predatormastersforums.com/killprimers.shtml

 

or try this one

 

http://conventionalpistol.blogspot.com/200...ng-primers.html

 

:-)

 

M.

Edited August 27, 2009 by MGMan

[Mungler]

Eat them. A day or two later you get to flush them fully camoflaged down the toilet.

 

Or jam them into the tyre tread of a French lorry driver just as it departs Dover.

 

Or put them in a catapolt and fire them at a Knightsbridge jeweller's windows for giggles.

[shot shot]

:look:

[mr smith]

Glue them to the front of a wadcutter airgun pellet and fire at a suitable target.

[Billy.]

Glue them to the front of a wadcutter airgun pellet and fire at a suitable target.

 

There you go. Incendary rounds without needing a sect. 5 exemption. The bunnies won't know what's hit them.

 

To be honest, I'm with Mungler on this one. Just don't eat them with A hot curry though :look:

[Mungler]

To be honest, I'm with Mungler on this one. Just don't eat them with A hot curry though

 

 

B&Q are running specials on new bathroom suites

[henry d]

......Or put them in a catapolt and fire them at a Knightsbridge jeweller's windows for giggles.

 

 

 

Hand them into the local constabulary !

[Zapp]

Old wives tale which dates from the turn of the century mercury fulminate primers. Doesn't work reliably with modern foil/varnish encapsulated lead stypthnate primers. At least 50% will still go bang after a month in oil.

 

Really? I didnt know that.

 

ZB

[Floating Chamber]

You want me to reload unknown components

 

Who's going to buy me a new gun when this one goes pop?

 

Fire them off in empty cases then*. All this advice about oil, burying, chucking in rivers, using as explosive projectiles, etc is too risky and, dare I say it, mildly irresponsible. (Not meant to be abrasive!)

 

Hell, there ain't that many types of primers used in UK loaded shells that cannot be identified. If there was a degree for identification, then most established homeloaders would be honours graduates.

 

*'Unidentified' primers are safe to use in blackpowder shells.

[wabbitbosher]

Eat them. A day or two later you get to flush them fully camoflaged down the toilet.

 

Or jam them into the tyre tread of a French lorry driver just as it departs Dover.

 

Or put them in a catapolt and fire them at a Knightsbridge jeweller's windows for giggles.

 

P M S L !!!

 

soak them in WD 40 or plussgas , Never whack them with a hammer unless you have good mates in the A n E Eye department to hold your hand while the pick the bits out your eyes

 

or like you said load them in an old case and fire them off Still point them in a safe direction

 

WB

[Edward]

Whats wrong with just burying them??

 

Say you had a box of 1940s rimfire ammo that was duff and all corroded?? and had one o' em ground augers and get down nice n' deep (4ft)

 

N.B I have NOT buried them yet

[Tiff-TRG]

Next time you go out to sea, wrap them in masking tape/nails (to sink) and drop them over the side in a MOD explosives dumping area. Thus no fishermen, or divers will touch them.

 

Then again you could just shoot them as training aid 'blanks'....