How Lucky are You?

[vonb]

Some of the comments about primers being smacked with various objects makes me cringe. Primers are without a doubt should be respected. I have seen a small rifle primer penetrate sheetrock from feet away when a buddy was attempting to remove a live primer by hand. Safety glasses are a must when priming.

 

[swd]

hahaha I have vacuumed up so many of them and unfortunately I haven't been able to get one to go bang. When my son was in diapers I couldn't let one stay on the ground otherwise he would smack it with a hammer if found, he thought it was hilarious his mom not so much

I’m here to testify that a vacuum cleaner can, lol. 25 or so years ago I accidentally dumped a tray on a shag carpet. I picked up what I could find. The static electricity in the vacuum hose lit off probably 6-10 of the ones I didn’t find. It was more excitement than I wanted!

 

[KMart]

I’m here to testify that a vacuum cleaner can, lol. 25 or so years ago I accidentally dumped a tray on a shag carpet. I picked up what I could find. The static electricity in the vacuum hose lit off probably 6-10 of the ones I didn’t find. It was more excitement than I wanted!

Did you have to register the vacuum cleaner with the ATF after that?

 

[loinhunter]

We had an indoor BB gun range in the laundry room. My son (8 yrs then) and I would set funny targets about15 ft away. Hard boiled eggs, his sisters dolls, etc. Well, his dad(me) had a brainstorm- “how about a live209 primer loaded into an empty 12 gauge shell stuffed into a block of styrofoam!” . As I lay prone, my son stood behind me . At the shot, the primer rocketed back and nailed my son in the belly. Nasty dime sized bruise. Could have been bad . Said a prayer that I would always be in that segment of the population with whom luck always is. So, always respect your primers!

 

[divingin]

I had a reloading incident today. I was setting up to prime some cases and knocked an uncovered tray of SR primers off the table. Went all the way to the floor. Fortunately it was not a full tray.
What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

I've dropped a a few full and quite a few partial trays over the years. Always found all of them. Sometimes it took a week or two, but...

 

[PaGreg]

My wife gets pissed when she finds primers in her shoes.

My wife of 18 years has at least 15 pairs of shoes she never wears. If I send them to you, will you fill them up please.

 

[Mark W]

We had an indoor BB gun range in the laundry room. My son (8 yrs then) and I would set funny targets about15 ft away. Hard boiled eggs, his sisters dolls, etc. Well, his dad(me) had a brainstorm- “how about a live209 primer loaded into an empty 12 gauge shell stuffed into a block of styrofoam!” . As I lay prone, my son stood behind me . At the shot, the primer rocketed back and nailed my son in the belly. Nasty dime sized bruise. Could have been bad . Said a prayer that I would always be in that segment of the population with whom luck always is. So, always respect your primers!

Where was momma when this was going on? This story reminds of one time when my wife was out of town and after a few beers, I decided to set up a shooting range in the basement. A bag of cat litter and a bundle of shop rags did a fine job of stopping the 22 bullets, but it was way louder than I expected. I missed a few hulls when I cleaned up which of course led to questions about where they came from when the wife spotted them a few weeks later. She should have been a detective instead of a nurse….lol

 

[hpshooter]

A ribbed rubber anti fatigue mat may be a worthwhile addition to the floor below the presses. The floor in my loading area is finished concrete and I have an ancient drafting board brush (remember them) and a small dust pan that have policed up many primers, powder spills, bullets and projectiles.

Along about 1954 my mom picked up a .41 Remington rimfire cartridge in the old upright vacuum cleaner. One of the style with the cast aluminum housing for the impeller and motor, everything in that style went past the impeller and into the bag. Well, the cartridge went off and exited stage right through the housing. Will never forget the look on moms face. This 7 year old, at the time got laughing, so hard that I about wet my pants having no appreciation of the potential gravity of the situation.

Dad and I were on the chit list for quite awhile, me for laughing and him for being careless with the round.

 

[dgeesaman]

Just walk barefooted in the area, you'll find every single one of them.

Ooh spicy legos.

But in all seriousness if one went off under a bare foot that would be really ugly.

 

[mtncwru]

I had a reloading incident today. I was setting up to prime some cases and knocked an uncovered tray of SR primers off the table. Went all the way to the floor. Fortunately it was not a full tray.
What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

I'll add another vote to "Do everything you can to find them all, and the vacuum cleaner isn't an option." I've been lucky so far that I've not dropped any live primers, only spent ones, but as others have mentioned you don't want to mess with touch explosives. They might not go off...right up until they do.

 

[JB10]

How lucky are you? ....I was looking for something more profound...not a simple everyday accident. Like,. "I spilled some milk on the floor"????
Being one of the luckiest men alive, greater than winning a billion dollar lottery. I might know something about that...
I died the first time at 38 from an aneurysm that has killed everyone in the state at the time, no survivors. Out of blood and oxygen to the brain, for too long should have been brain dead... and that's what the doctors expected...but I come back to a form of consciousness, I couldn't see but hear what's was said...woke to a bunch of electrodes attatched to my head. I did not know who I was, and had no concept of time...what is your name? what year is it?..."I don't know," was the answer.
So with a lot of luck and a few miracles I gained back most of what was lost....to function as a normal human being and lead a productive life and contribute to society....Lucky to the Max,...that is past lucky...When, "you're the only One, ever, to survive", so the Health and Sciences University had to send a team of doctors to "study" me, offer some extreme medical solutions, and all predicted the outcome was grim at best...as they discussed frankly and openly, infront of me, there was little hope any of it would work...
Sometimes real luck and miracles happen to ordinary people...botched surgeries and all...or stepping on a rattlesnake that didn't let ya know it was there, and it bites you 2.5 hours to medical treatment...are you going to die today? Surviving that Is.... Lucky. Life is like that...flip a coin.

Well when i was younger camping with my dad i might have been almost dead. It was a messed up trip and did not get our tent set up till about 9pm. Was a cold night in north AZ. My dad lite the tent heater and off to sleep we went. Next thing i know he was shaking the hell out of me screaming god damn it breath. I remember him puting my face against the screen in the tent. I remember taking a breath of air and it tasted like being in a bad dust storm breathing. Nothing but dust smell. My dad forgot to open up a vent in the tent that night. The propane tent heater we were using went out and was releasing gas into the tent anong with lack of ventilation. It woke my dad up and he said i was not breathing. The next day felt like a bad case of the flu.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Well when i was younger camping with my dad i might have been almost dead. It was a messed up trip and did not get our tent set up till about 9pm. Was a cold night in north AZ. My dad lite the tent heater and off to sleep we went. Next thing i know he was shaking the hell out of me screaming god damn it breath. I remember him puting my face against the screen in the tent. I remember taking a breath of air and it tasted like being in a bad dust storm breathing. Nothing but dust smell. My dad forgot to open up a vent in the tent that night. The propane tent heater we were using went out and was releasing gas into the tent anong with lack of ventilation. It woke my dad up and he said i was not breathing. The next day felt like a bad case of the flu.

We drove in a ML Mercedes once to go and fetch a load of ice cream for a store, to keep the ice cream cold they covered the tops of the boxes with Dry Ice and covered the boxes with a blanket to help keep everything cold. Mid summer so we have the windows up and aircon on, about 10miles down the highway I started to black out and luckily the guy driving was a couple second behind my symptoms and could pull over and open his door and sort of slump out. I came to and opened my door and about 10min later we were fine except for massive migraines . Turns out you shouldn't be driving around in a SUV full of dry ice with your windows up unless you want to go to that special place in the sky

 

[The German]

With current prices for primers, I highly recommend searching for all of them

 

[Don Havens]

I had a reloading incident today. I was setting up to prime some cases and knocked an uncovered tray of SR primers off the table. Went all the way to the floor. Fortunately it was not a full tray.
What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

All of them!! Don't stop until you find ever one of them.