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How do you dispose of spent primers?

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  • Toolfogie
    I put mine in an old peanut butter jar. Every once in a while I look at it and say, Wow that's a lot of primers. I'm on my second jar.[:D]
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  • geeguy
    I just throw mine in the trash, as long as they are "spent" primers.

    If you only have a jar full, you don't reload much. The saying goes you need a 5 gallon bucket of .45 ACP spent primers before you really learn how to shoot the gun. I'm working on my 2nd (or 3rd) bucket and I still don't understand that 1911.
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  • Rocky Raab
    They recycle quite nicely. Some metal dealers will swap them for lead instead of cash, also.
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  • bpost
    They are brass, recycle them with your bad cases, buy more ammo!
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  • Mobuck
    I sell mine at the junk yard. When I took in 20# of spent primers, the guy asked where I got so many. I told I wasn't nearly done and would have that many more next spring.
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  • bsdoyle
    I save mine and put them in a shot bag and use um for sand bags. not as heavy and same purpose.
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  • Bill Jordan
    I recycle, but I like the "sand bag" idea, too!!!
    BTW, I use coffee cans to save them in.
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  • FrancF
    Return to earth as lawn food.
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  • longspur rider
    I've got a 5 gal bucket full of 209's, & 2 gal of .22 brass I need to take in. If the guy will trade for lead, that would be great. I can feed the lead to my shot maker.
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  • badchris
    I take them to the scrap yard with my other reject brass.
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  • HandLoad
    LEAD Styphnate, MERCURY Fulminate, DDNP.

    These are the active chemicals within your Primers, Used or New.

    Not sure I would have a "SandBag" filled with used Primers!

    I dispose of them by double wrapping the (Small Size!)Mayonnaise Jar I put mine in (Plastic!), and put in Trash.
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