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Posted: 9/20/2009 9:58:51 AM EDT
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How do ya'll go about destroying old shotgun shells?
A neighbor handed me a bag with a dozen or so Sears Ted Williams 16 gauge shells that are completely covered in heavy rust. The primers have a lot of rust surrounding them. Whats the best way to dispose of them? |
| I just cut them open and either set off the powder, or pour it into a bucket of water. As for the primers, they usually go into a barrel fire. Somebody recently posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it. But I couldn't swear to it. |
) you can take a knife and cut open the shells and salvage the shot.
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Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm |
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Quoted: Quoted: Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm If he's talking about getting WD40 *in* the primers (as in, he's cut open the shells), then the link you gave supports the idea that it will kill the primers. To the OP: Don't throw the powder in the garbage can, let it do some good... throw it in your garden.  |
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I know! take the old shells to a concrete company and have them cast into a concrete block. Then wait until midnight, break into a construction site and add the block into the middle of a huge stack of identical blocks. problem solved! Or you could rent a boat with ocean going capabilities and a depth finder and put the block into a miles deep subterranean trough. Or you could just throw them in the trash.
Do some of you guys over think things just a little? |
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Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm If he's talking about getting WD40 *in* the primers (as in, he's cut open the shells), then the link you gave supports the idea that it will kill the primers. To the OP: Don't throw the powder in the garbage can, let it do some good... throw it in your garden.
Yeah you have to oil the, "internals" also known as the anval of the primer, not the metal cup that the firing pin hits. Wait gunpowder makes a good fertilizer? Quit giving dumb solutions everyone, and seriously answer the question. |
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Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm If he's talking about getting WD40 *in* the primers (as in, he's cut open the shells), then the link you gave supports the idea that it will kill the primers. To the OP: Don't throw the powder in the garbage can, let it do some good... throw it in your garden.
Yeah you have to oil the, "internals" also known as the anval of the primer, not the metal cup that the firing pin hits. Wait gunpowder makes a good fertilizer? Quit giving dumb solutions everyone, and seriously answer the question. Not dumb at all. Smokeless propellants make excellent fertilizer. |
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Do some of you guys over think things just a little? I work with a guy like that. You take the simplest thing and after he's through with it, you have 10 people and trucks and phone calls and loading and unloading and spaceflight and lord knows what else. Wait! Why not take them to the end of the earth and throw them back to the Gods like the little aborigine did in The Gods Must Be Crazy! |
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Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm If he's talking about getting WD40 *in* the primers (as in, he's cut open the shells), then the link you gave supports the idea that it will kill the primers. To the OP: Don't throw the powder in the garbage can, let it do some good... throw it in your garden.
Yeah you have to oil the, "internals" also known as the anval of the primer, not the metal cup that the firing pin hits. Wait gunpowder makes a good fertilizer? Quit giving dumb solutions everyone, and seriously answer the question. Not dumb at all. Smokeless propellants make excellent fertilizer. I got to try this, I got some spare powder from my reloading. I wonder if it will still make my plant edible, or maybe I'll just put it on the grass instead. |
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I know! take the old shells to a concrete company and have them cast into a concrete block. Then wait until midnight, break into a construction site and add the block into the middle of a huge stack of identical blocks. problem solved! Or you could rent a boat with ocean going capabilities and a depth finder and put the block into a miles deep subterranean trough. Or you could just throw them in the trash. Do some of you guys over think things just a little? I'm pretty sure he meant for safety reasons, what would be the best way to dispose of them. Not so people could put up smart ass answers. |
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Somebody recently and incorrectly posted that WD-40 will kill primers real quickly. If this is so, and it isnt than a good shot of it, and leave them standing up for a while, ought to do it but wont. But I couldn't swear to it (Dont). http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm Thank you for enlightening me on that one. I guess I should be more careful what I pass on. |
| It may not hurt you that bad since the gases from the burning gunpowder are not channeled, but it will scare the crap out of someone. Overall I would say its a bad idea to trash them. My local shooting range burns its trash, and there's always someone who unknowingly puts some misfired rounds in the burn barrel thinking its the brass can. When it comes time to burn the standard SOP is to now burn it in an enclosed space to be safe from the exploding rounds that people have been injured by from the trash burning. |
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