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Posted: 9/13/2018 6:28:00 PM EDT
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I'd use them. I've used primers that were 25 years old, no issues. What's the difference between primers in the box and primers in case?
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Posted: 9/13/2018 8:00:50 PM EDT
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I would use them
If there is a question about them, use them for practice ammo. |
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Posted: 9/13/2018 10:12:08 PM EDT
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Of course they are GTG.
Primers don't care if they are stored in a box, in a empty case, or a loaded case. All that is required is a cool dry storage place. |
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Posted: 9/13/2018 10:49:42 PM EDT
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Would you guys be hesitant to load these or are they good to go? |
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Posted: 9/13/2018 10:51:53 PM EDT
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Absolutely, go for it.
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Posted: 9/27/2018 11:41:41 PM EDT
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When I got my first 303 I doug around and found some old crusty copper primed loaded rounds.
To the range we went, some RA 17 cracked the necks when fired. The copper primed stuff shot tight groups, I thought it was marked from the 60's Looking harder I realized it was made on 1909!! Wish I had cases of it |
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Posted: 9/27/2018 11:58:21 PM EDT
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I store thousands of primed 9mm at a time in those plastic totes containers.
Primers are sold and stored in cardboard boxes so I can't imagine it hurts anything |
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Posted: 9/28/2018 12:02:24 AM EDT
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Seating primers breaks the lacquer that seals them from air, and contact with moist air will degrade them; however, you're saved because you kept them in a sealed container. I make it standard practice to load up brass I've primed within a few days. Factory-primed brass is usually done with wet priming compound and they're sealed after drying, so they don't need special storage. Primers in the tray have also been sealed after drying, so they are stable unless you have really bad storage conditions. Priming compound (lead styphnate plus additives) doesn't mind heat, unlike powder whether in loaded ammunition or the jug.
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Posted: 9/28/2018 7:19:46 PM EDT
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If you have any doubts, put an unloaded primed case in your firearm, point in safe direction (preferably outside), and pull trigger.
Be warned: depending on primer and barrel length, flame may shoot out muzzle. Best do this outside, muzzle pointed in safe direction. |
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Posted: 9/29/2018 11:45:07 AM EDT
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Not a fan of storing primed cases, since the cases can tarnish over time, and like to give the case a quick tumble to gleam them back up before they are reloaded.
So if the cases are tarnished, then you can run them through the sizer and case neck expander again, which will knock out the live primers so the case can be re-tumbled to clean them back up, and the ejected live primers can be put back in the cases afterwards. Note, don't tumble primed cases, since the dry method will end up with media in the primers to block the flash channels, and wet tumbling will make a mess of the primers isntead. Just go slow with steady stoke on knocking out the live primers with the decapping pin on the sizer die, and you will not have any problems igniting the live primers so they can be reused again. |
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Posted: 10/1/2018 1:38:34 AM EDT
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If you are determined to knock out live primers (I always fire them) it would be a good idea to use a universal depriming die. Using a sizing die seals the case and a primer lighting off would cause high pressures that could result in serious injury. It really isn't worth trying to salvage the primers, especially since they will be damaged to some extent by the decapping pin and would likely be erratic in performance.
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Posted: 10/1/2018 8:18:12 AM EDT
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I decap live primers with no problems, reuse them too.
Slow and steady on the press handle is what it takes. If your anxious then don't decap them. |
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Posted: 10/2/2018 10:11:43 PM EDT
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I've done it with no ill effects.
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Posted: 10/9/2018 1:45:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I decap live primers with no problems, reuse them too. Slow and steady on the press handle is what it takes. If your anxious then don't decap them. The Lee Universal Decapping Die works great for this. |
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