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    Posted: November 02 2021 at 6:09pm
These are my spent primers from 20+ years of reloading.  Measures 12”x10”x3” and must weigh about 20 lbs.  Might have to figure out how to reload these, we may not see primers for some years to come…


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i could see using them as shot it shot she!!s but i doubt there is a way to make them new again , 
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Not being totally serious of course…but desperate times call for desperate measures! 

Primers have only three components: the cup, anvil and primer pellet.  Making a new primer pellet would be the hard part. The dent in the primer cup from the firing pin could be pushed out.

I’ve had to slow down my shooting pace, I’ve eliminated almost all my range practice time to only shoot in matches.  Two a month plus a few major matches during the year.  Powder is available again, but primers are not.  At this reduced shooting pace, I can last another two to three years, but I’m thinking this primer unavailability will go beyond that.  




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i hope you are wrong , ive got about a years worth - be stretching to get two at current use rate , im starting to eye the old ammo folks drop off at the range for disposal for repurposing use , ive saved the shotgun she!!s for shot , think ill save the primers if i can carefully remove them , 
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Anyone tried using repriming compound from Prime-all ?  comes as a kit.
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I think that reloading primers may well be a dangerous occupation. Careful and proper procedures required. 
I would want to be sure of the process before attempting it.
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You would need to be very careful in seating the anvil.  They are not fully seated during the manufacturing process, that happens when you seat the primer into the case. 

I was not really serious about reloading primers.  But if there was no alternative, I’d look into it and see if it is possible.  I have tens of thousands of spent primers.  That drawer is heavy!  The drawer pulls out from under the top of my reloading bench under the press, so the spent primers drop into it. 


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go back to rimfire cartridges ? 
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I read a post on a forum about 10 years ago where a guy was making his own .303 bullets from .22lr casings. Reforming the case into the ogive and then filling with lead. 
I was just starting off back then, so didn't take much notice. But seems like a good idea now.  I think the forum closed down,but the information is probably still out there.
You'd need to make a press to form the cases. 
Might be a fun project!
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I experimented decades ago with a punch to flatten out firing pin hit from the inside of a primer. Then used two caps out of those toy cap gun cap rolls trimmed to fit inside. Then seated anvil and loaded in case. I got about 90% ignition rate , and they did set off powder charge albeit some times with a click bang delay like surplus junk paki 303 ammo.
    I have seen guys swage certain pistol brass to make rifle bullets. The 22 rimfire cases are only adequate for forming into 223 soft points if you have the lead wire for cores. There is an outfit or two that used to sell the swage dies and the like for that . In tight survivalist times it would be a boon to have.
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can you even find those old cap gun strips ? ive not seen them in years , they were very fun as a child and thought they would always be around for my kids and grandkids but i see them in the pawn shop and antique arch shows a bit now as some have preserved their kid toys and they did preserve some of those rolls of caps , best part of those shows is that i get to re-see some of what i grew up with , 

too many tyhings are gone that we grew up with - lots of it is now taboo , im a little pi$$ED off at the fact that they deamonize my childhood and restrict my free speech with all their silly crap , but ,,,,i think this may bite them in the A$$ one day down the road when the americn people realize what they have done to our culture , 

i see all these new imagrants coming here - clutching their cultures to their hearts , im all for that in keeping with our laws but i am asking whats wrong with our culture getting preserved ? 
their are old , ours are too , all are good in the big scheme of things in their own way and need not offend anyone at all , but then im sensing a strange resistance to ours that was never here before , ill get off my soapbox and hold my six guns close , i may need them 
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It's all by design. The 3rd world cultures they are intentionally loading up our country with are meant to be divisive. 3rd worlders from south America and Muslim dark corners of the world that only know violence and misogyny and complete intolerance for our open and once free society. The desire to assimilate is openly not encouraged by our 'woke culture dogma' engaged in by our puppet government.
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You can buy refills of priming compound for the .22 RF reloading kits.
IIRC its a liquid that is applied "wet" * allowed to "dry"!
I have no idea how well it would work for Center-fire ignition though.

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Video on how to reuse/reload primers
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I just saw for the first time in while that a case of 5,000 small rifle primers are now available from Bruno’s.  For $624.95 plus tax and hazmat.  Yikes! 
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