P72 said:I avoid placing explosives in my trash and primers do contain explosives.
I soak the cases that have no bullets or powder for 3 months or so in water then should the brass be reloadable de-cap them, if not the whole works goes into the trash.
Attempts to fire water soaked 7.62X51 brass have shown that this works. None of the primers went bang despite being sealed with lacquer on the outside. CCI #41 primers (mil spec small rifle) appear to have some internal lacquer coating but I have not soaked them.
Should you attempt to fire loaded rounds primed in wet primer pockets as a result loading undried wet cleaned brass a very high percentage of those will not go bang. 90 days or so submerged should fix the problem. The lead explosive compound is not very water soluble but 90 days is a long time and the amount of primer compound is small.
I believe this. Shoot a few primers(only) through a barrel, and then look at the mess that leaves behind. It's worse than any other fouling I've seen.amamnn said:I don't think I would want to fire off a lot of primers in empty cases since I have heard that lead stryphate (the stuff that makes your primer go bang) leaves a lot of nasty byproducts of combustion behind when burned at low pressures.