Start with a basic reality check
1) is it legal? - not my area and I don't intend to do it, so it's an academic question for me. If you are going into questionable legal areas, get good answers from trained professionals. Read and understand the regs. A legal defense, successful or not, is likely to cost much more than any amount you save on primers.
2) Safety - each of us has to weight the risk and reward on this one. I know how important my hands and eyes are to my livelihood and enjoyment of life. I know what it costs to go to the ER. How much are you really saving so you can burn more powder and fling more lead?
3) How many times can you reuse a primer? Each time you strike it and remove the dent you work harden the cap. If you do it enough time's it will rupture on firing. That goes to the cost in the risk vs reward equation. You will have to buy primers sooner or later. It also adds a risk. How well do your guns handle a ruptured primer - will gasses vent past the firing pin at your face, or eject the firing pin into you? This varies by design and condition of the gun.
4) How consistent are the finished products and how do they compare to commercially available products? All of my reloading books point out that magnum vs standard primers can change the pressures of your reloads. If what you produce is inconsistent from cap to cap or with commercial products, you may have a variety of issues with accuracy and over pressuring.
Your liberty, wealth, and well-being - your choice.
1) is it legal? - not my area and I don't intend to do it, so it's an academic question for me. If you are going into questionable legal areas, get good answers from trained professionals. Read and understand the regs. A legal defense, successful or not, is likely to cost much more than any amount you save on primers.
2) Safety - each of us has to weight the risk and reward on this one. I know how important my hands and eyes are to my livelihood and enjoyment of life. I know what it costs to go to the ER. How much are you really saving so you can burn more powder and fling more lead?
3) How many times can you reuse a primer? Each time you strike it and remove the dent you work harden the cap. If you do it enough time's it will rupture on firing. That goes to the cost in the risk vs reward equation. You will have to buy primers sooner or later. It also adds a risk. How well do your guns handle a ruptured primer - will gasses vent past the firing pin at your face, or eject the firing pin into you? This varies by design and condition of the gun.
4) How consistent are the finished products and how do they compare to commercially available products? All of my reloading books point out that magnum vs standard primers can change the pressures of your reloads. If what you produce is inconsistent from cap to cap or with commercial products, you may have a variety of issues with accuracy and over pressuring.
Your liberty, wealth, and well-being - your choice.
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Every primer rebuild thread, ever, has devolved into an "OMG, YOU'LL BLOW YER EYE OUT KID" thread and has never managed more than half a dozen process/data posts. Ever.
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The reality check is, there’s no primer to be found. If there was, it’ll cause an arm and a leg, also as I stated before, the pandemic sure taught me that you can’t really rely on big market to always have what you need…history has shown that.(examples, WW2, WW1, The Great Depression…and the recent pandemic…) I’m not doing it to save money on primers. I can’t find any primers, and if I did, it’ll cost an arm and a leg…on top of that, who’s to say with a 100% certainty that there won’t be another pandemic or WW3? Sure you can stockpile it if you want to but that supply is finite and won’t last forever, I rather know how to make my own, when I want to and however I like to knowing that I don’t have to worry about ammo or components. I can sleep like a baby knowing that I can make my own.
You'll blow your eye out kid!
As to the question about self-made primers:
There will always come a point when things like component cost, time involved, and safety cost more than factory made.
There will always come a point when things like component cost, time involved, and safety cost more than factory made.
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Cabelas has a bunch, I bet BPS and other places do too. They'll be $70-$110 depending on what kind they are. Those prices aren't changing anything soon and I think $35 bricks are a thing of the past. It'll probably settle into $60-$70.The reality check is, there’s no primer to be found. If there was, it’ll cause an arm and a leg, also as I stated before, the pandemic sure taught me that you can’t really rely on big market to always have what you need…history has shown that.(examples, WW2, WW1, The Great Depression…and the recent pandemic…) I’m not doing it to save money on primers. I can’t find any primers, and if I did, it’ll cost an arm and a leg…on top of that, who’s to say with a 100% certainty that there won’t be another pandemic or WW3? Sure you can stockpile it if you want to but that supply is finite and won’t last forever, I rather know how to make my own, when I want to and however I like to knowing that I don’t have to worry about ammo or components. I can sleep like a baby knowing that I can make my own.
There are plenty of people here I bet would work a deal with you. Maybe.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
No thanks. I rather make my own. I’m not to keen at being at the mercy of others. The knowledge of how to make your own safely is out there. Should pandemic or shortages strike again, I’ll be alright.
I learned my lesson during the Obama years and put back an ample supply of components during the “good times“ for my needs. With that said, however, I hope you are successful with your project of reloading primers. If so, please post your methodology; we may all need that knowledge eventually.No thanks. I rather make my own. I’m not to keen at being at the mercy of others. The knowledge of how to make your own safely is out there. Should pandemic or shortages strike again, I’ll be alright.
