Make your own primers?

[Legionnaire]

So I was poking around Powder Valley's site and came across these:

Sharpshooter Primer Cup Maker
Sharpshooter 2.0 Prime-All Center Fire Priming Compound

Anybody here making your own primers? I'm tempted to try making some for my revolvers, though it would only be for the novelty of it.

 

[horsey300]

I hadn't been making my own yet, hadn't thought of it, hadn't even seen these before!!! Now I has something to ponder!!!

 

[alfsauve]

Cool. In primers what do you do about he anvil? Could I reform used primer cups and take out the dimple?

 

[rabid wombat]

Cool. In primers what do you do about he anvil? Could I reform used primer cups and take out the dimple?

A fellow at a local shop does just that… he reloads spent primers

 

[dh1633pm]

I guess I have to get me one of these kits. Not that I am short on primers. You're never dependent on somebody else for what you already know how to do for yourself.

 

[RockRat64]

Cool. In primers what do you do about he anvil? Could I reform used primer cups and take out the dimple?

They sell a punch to make your own cups. Not sure about the anvil.

 

[hoardingthemanual]

not for me but I see people have enthusiasm for it

 

[Legionnaire]

Looks to me the priming compound uses a hardener that also serves as the anvil. I might have to buy the kit just to see how it works.

 

[RockRat64]

Are they corrosive? Thought I read somewhere that they were.

 

[packetloss]

I wonder how many primers you can fill from one package of the primer compound.

 

[buck460XVR]

Seems like a lot of work, but might be a viable option for emergency usage, as in TEOTWAWKI. Otherwise, I have no issue with payin' a dime apiece for commercially made ones.

 

[reddog81]

I’ve read a few posts regarding the steps it takes and have zero interest. Between reloading and casting bullets I have no extra time to go through all the steps to make primers. Even as some sort of last resort / apocalypse scenario it would be 10% easier to just carry primers vs the supplies and accessories to make primers.

 

[Thomasss]

Mother Earth News and Survivor Magazine both had articles on how to rebuild primers and what was needed to do it.
The priming compound that was recommended was the red tip from a wooden kitchen matches pulverized with a mortar and pestle. And they had detailed information on how to rejuvinate a used primer and salvage the anvil. Of course they said the new re-built ones do work,
but only as a last resort.

 

[Fyrstyk]

I don't make primers, but i have been making #11 percussion caps for a few years due to the shortage of store bought caps. # 11 caps can be made fro aluminum beverage cans. It is very labor intensive work, and the compound will make several hundred caps if you measure carefully. I like to keep the kit as a back-up when needed.

 

[jmorris]

Anybody here making your own primers? I'm tempted to try making some for my revolvers, though it would only be for the novelty of it.

I haven’t but I’ve seen the panics come and go since Clinton and the AWB and have maintained a good supply of anything ai might need. All of those extra $99/5000 primers I picked up in the lull in between panics don’t seem like the waste of money Mrs. Morris thought they were…

I do like learning though and if I ever get bored, I will be trying a couple formulas from here.

https://www.aardvarkreloading.com/resources/Homemade%20Primer%20Course%202019-06-28.pdf

 

[Legionnaire]

@jmorris, very cool; thanks for the link.