How do you store loose primers?

[tcoz]

I have about a hundred loose primers from some rounds I pulled. Unfortunately I no longer have any of the original trays that they come in so I was wondering how I could store them.
Actually, I really don't have a use for them any longer so what is the best tsure fire way to safely dispose of them if I choose to do so?

Thanks.

 

[gunguy59]

How did you pull them without damaging the primer? Just wondering...

 

[tcoz]

Universal decapping die and very carefully. They come out pretty easily. I think most handloaders have pulled live primers at one time or another.

 

[ericuda]

Curious, what kind of primers are they.

 

[tcoz]

Cci34 nato lrp

 

[Wildfire]

Still live.

I soaked a bunch one time in soapy water. I was shocked when I tossed them in a burn pile. That water did not kill as many as I thought it would.

 

[SwaneeSR]

I would put in a small tupperware container cushioned by a paper towel and transfer to primer boxes in short future. I would think fine for plinking rounds. Why toss them?

Wear safety glasses when handling primers.

 

[ihasacookie]

Any container should do if you plan to store them. Soak them in oil if you want to throw them out.

 

[Handloader109]

Oooh, pita is coming to see you small plastic container is perfect

 

[243winxb]

Primers

http://www.sfm.state.or.us/CR2K_SubDB/MSDS/SMOKELESS_PRIMERS.PDF Primers are very hard to kill. Throw in a burn barrel.

 

[bullseye308]

Load them back in the brass and pop them.

 

[tcoz]

I would put in a small tupperware container cushioned by a paper towel and transfer to primer boxes in short future. I would think fine for plinking rounds. Why toss them?.

Truthfully, I don't really need them any longer. I have 5000 of them and only my M1 to use them in now.
Although............since I have them maybe I should buy a new gun so I can use them

 

[VINTAGE-SLOTCARS]

I Store Federal primers (that huge box) in the small plastic KFC food containers. These are the ones that have the red plastic lid with clear cup. I mark the top with a sharpie pen. I also include the box side tab that describes what primers are inside. This method saves a lot of room in my primer locker and they stack easily.

 

[7mmb]

What do you call primers stored in bulk?

A bomb

Soak em in oil and hope for the best. And don't sneeze. 5000 primers out of trays sounds scary.

 

[tcoz]

I don't have 5000 primers stored loosely. I have 5000 stored in boxes/trays and about one hundred that won't fit and are loose.

 

[Reefinmike]

I Store Federal primers (that huge box) in the small plastic KFC food containers. These are the ones that have the red plastic lid with clear cup. I mark the top with a sharpie pen. I also include the box side tab that describes what primers are inside. This method saves a lot of room in my primer locker and they stack easily.

This is a very bad idea and very bad advice. READ THE WARNING LABELS!

 

[SwaneeSR]

Yes primers are mini-bombs. We all agree to treat them with respect.

So to the OP - what can we soak the primers in to guarantee they are deactivated/harmless? This would allow them to go into the regular trash.

 

[bluetopper]

I store mine in a glass jar.

 

[Gearhead Jim]

I keep a plastic bottle 3/4 full of WD40 on my loading bench, any primer or loaded round that I want to dispose of; gets tossed in there. When it gets mostly full, I set it aside for 6 months and start filling another bottle. At the end of the six months, the first bottle gets discarded.

 

[cfullgraf]

Load them back into prepped cases and store them for a future reloading session. How do you think new primed brass for sale is stored?

Do not put them loose in any container. As said, it's an IED in your reloading room.

If you use an APS priming system, you can load some strips and store them that way.

 

[goldpelican]

People seriously are storing bulk primers loose in Tupperware and glass jars? That's as good as leaving a live grenade in your house with a loose pin!

My paternal grandfather lost an eye from a primer while reloading 303 not long after WWII. Treat every single one of them like a piece of shrapnel waiting to stick itself in you. Treat loose bulk ones like unexplored ordinance. Familiarity breeds contempt - sad thing is he was an engineer who could pretty much disarm any Japanese aerial ordinance blindfolded (his hand drawn "fuse schematic book" is still in the family) - and a bloody primer still got him.

Damn, seriously.

 

[9mmepiphany]

WD40 is what I've always heard and seen...really any penetrating oil.

If you do decide you want to keep them, I can just mail you a couple of empty primer sleeves...PM me

 

[tcoz]

Load them back into prepped cases and store them for a future reloading session.

Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees....the most obvious solution to storing them....duh!

 

[Cocked & Locked]

Universal decapping die and very carefully. They come out pretty easily. I think most handloaders have pulled live primers at one time or another.

Hmmm...started reloading in the late 1960's and never did that or even thought of it.

 

[bilco]

The most I've stored loosely was 7-12 in a small dimebag. Separate from powder and other primers in a safe box on the Reloading shelf with other inert objects such as Reloading tools and bullets.