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Mr. Fred, can I drill out the explosive compound real slow and careful? I understand there may be a little heat involved, but the primer is all that is left. Any special tool I could bring in from the US in a suitcase (other than a full press) that I could jerry rig into a way to pull these...

What about picking a time when sound does not matter, puttin on the gear and packing in the round before hamering away? Would it come out? How big of a charge can this little bugger make? Thinking desperate now:)

I'll never have a proper cal weapon here, but perhaps I could fashion something from local pipe? Kind of far fetched as "local" doesn't mean a lot here in this sand pile. Hate to leave this stuff to the goons. Thanks for the info on the Berdan. Is there any hope to just punch these buggers...

The two I have are now soaking in WD-40

Oh, when I look into the brass I see two dots around the primer.......

I do have another question of concern. In the lead I see some substance built into the back side that is not lead or copper. On the first one I worked I removed this slowly with a pocket knife until I hit lead. On the big 50 cal (?) there is a bit of this and I am concerned as the rounds are...

You folks are great and thanks very much. I will not try to address all coments, but I have learned a lot. First of all I will be aquiring most of this stuff in the next couple of weeks, so I don't have much data on the rounds. Some are very large machine gun cal (50 cal?) and some probably...

I have live military ammo of various cal that I would like to unarm. My problem (one anyway) is the primers. I don't know how to remove them. I'm removing the lead and powder with a vise and pipe wrench. I am not a reloader and have no equipment and am unable to obtain any (living abroad)...