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Not trying to rain on your parade, but it seems some things just aren't worth recycling, Shotgun wads and toilet paper are two that come to mine...  DF Don't take it too seriously.... It was all tongue in cheek. That said, I knew a guy, now deceased, father of a close friend, who'd go out after a trap shoot and pick up used wads to use over again. Really.
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Not trying to rain on your parade, but it seems some things just aren't worth recycling, Shotgun wads and toilet paper are two that come to mine... DF Don't take it too seriously.... It was all tongue in cheek. That said, I knew a guy, now deceased, father of a close friend, who'd go out after a trap shoot and pick up used wads to use over again. Really. Now, that's tight.. Hope my toilet paper comment wasn't a part of his efforts. .😳 DF
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If a guy's so tight his ass squeaks when he walks, I'm not sure he'd even need toilet paper.
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After a trap shoot, it wouldn't take much to collect a bunch of wads. I'd do that, if it was easy.
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The things you learn on the campfire...
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If a guy's so tight his ass squeaks when he walks, I'm not sure he'd even need toilet paper. That's where the WD 40 comes in! 
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[/quote]About 5 years ago I had some bad Remington primers that had damaged the face of 3 bolts. I contacted Remington and told them, which they instructed me to pour all the primers into a glass jar of oil, photograph them, then send the photo to them and they would pay for the repairs and replace the primers. Never touch primers or get them wet with water or oil is what I was always told. Below is a portion of I post I made about my experience. [quoteMy bolts that were damaged by some bad Remington 7 1/2 primers are at Gre'-Tan's being fixed. Today I received a check from Remington for the total amount of the repairs by Gre'-Tan plus the shipping cost. Also, they are drop shipping a case of primers to me to replace the bad ones that I destroyed. My faith in Remingtons Customer Service is restored and a big thank you to a Mrs/Miss Sandra Strickland for all of her kind help and keeping me informed. I plan on posting this on all of the forums I belong to. Maybe some of you can do the same. On a side note: I soaked the primers in Quaker State oil for over a week. More like 2 weeks. When burning some trash in my burn barrel I dumped the jar of oil and primers in also. Guess what.............ever darn one of those 6000 plus primers detonated.  I didn't think they would.]
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I recently had a flood in my basement and found a brick of small rifle primers (Federal) sitting in 4 inches of water. I figure they are toast, but before I throw them out, I want to ask the "sages" on here if I was right and they are wasted.
All answers gratefully appreciated. I'd be inclined to throw them in the trash and spend $40. Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Not trying to rain on your parade, but it seems some things just aren't worth recycling, Shotgun wads and toilet paper are two that come to mine... DF Don't take it too seriously.... It was all tongue in cheek. That said, I knew a guy, now deceased, father of a close friend, who'd go out after a trap shoot and pick up used wads to use over again. Really. Was his last name Bernstein? Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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The above is a fairly good supply of opinions and fixes. Right now I'm looking at a just-loaded .222 Rem cartridge with a nice big dent in the primer - brand new never-wet CCI #400 primer inserted last night - and it didn't go bang this morning. Its neighbors in the carton worked just fine. Thoughts on that?
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Getting ready to load up some ammo for a trip to Africa for Cape Buffalo.
Fairly certain that I will not be using primers that have been soaked in water, or any other type of fluid, nor extracted from previously primed brass...............
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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Not trying to rain on your parade, but it seems some things just aren't worth recycling, Shotgun wads and toilet paper are two that come to mine... DF Don't take it too seriously.... It was all tongue in cheek. That said, I knew a guy, now deceased, father of a close friend, who'd go out after a trap shoot and pick up used wads to use over again. Really. Why back when-Used hulls, used shot we scraped up, rinsed off with a hose and dried in the sun. Used wads, the ones that looked fairly good were run thru a dryer cycle and many of them popped back like almost new. Loaded shell for the cost of a primer which at that time was around $7/thousand. They broke 16-yard targets just fine.
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Not trying to rain on your parade, but it seems some things just aren't worth recycling, Shotgun wads and toilet paper are two that come to mine... DF Don't take it too seriously.... It was all tongue in cheek. That said, I knew a guy, now deceased, father of a close friend, who'd go out after a trap shoot and pick up used wads to use over again. Really. Why back when-Used hulls, used shot we scraped up, rinsed off with a hose and dried in the sun. Used wads, the ones that looked fairly good were run thru a dryer cycle and many of them popped back like almost new. Loaded shell for the cost of a primer which at that time was around $7/thousand. They broke 16-yard targets just fine. If we could just find a way to reuse powder.....
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In my early days in ballistics, first time I needed to section a case, I asked one of the guys in the shop to pull a bullet, discard the powder and kill the primer with some oil.
I then took a dremel tool and a cutoff wheel and began sectioning the case. Everything went fine till I got to the primer. It went off, loudly.
My co-worker came running into the shop and I said "I thought you killed the primer with oil". He said he did squirt oil on the primer. There was oil residue in the case so he was not lying.
We both agreed that, with respect to what we had been taught about primers, "The facts are not supportive of the fairy tale".
Laughing, he said "Did it scare you when it went off?"
Damn right it did.
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In my early days in ballistics, first time I needed to section a case, I asked one of the guys in the shop to pull a bullet, discard the powder and kill the primer with some oil.
I then took a dremel tool and a cutoff wheel and began sectioning the case. Everything went fine till I got to the primer. It went off, loudly.
My co-worker came running into the shop and I said "I thought you killed the primer with oil". He said he did squirt oil on the primer. There was oil residue in the case so he was not lying.
We both agreed that, with respect to what we had been taught about primers, "The facts are not supportive of the fairy tale".
Laughing, he said "Did it scare you when it went off?"
Damn right it did.
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Baking primers in the oven and throwing 6K of them in the burn barrel, Darwinism's finest at work right there.
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I recently had a flood in my basement and found a brick of small rifle primers (Federal) sitting in 4 inches of water. I figure they are toast, but before I throw them out, I want to ask the "sages" on here if I was right and they are wasted.
All answers gratefully appreciated. I'd be inclined to throw them in the trash and spend $40. Dave I have already replaced the primers with new ones for any serious shooting . The question was just a matter of interest. I will shoot off a few in unloaded brass, just to satisfy my curiosity. By the way, in Canada you are looking at more like $75.00 for a brick(Federal), once you have included taxes and shipping. Again, I would like to thank everyone who took the time to reply. It is appreciated.
Patrick
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I want to go where they went."
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Moby,
I was just being an ass hole. No offense intended.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Moby,
I was just being an ass hole. No offense intended.
Dave Me too.
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Moby,
I was just being an ass hole. No offense intended.
Dave Me too. Relax guys, I knew and anyway I have a real thick skin.
Patrick
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die,
I want to go where they went."
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