Did I screw up?

[Notalentbum]

At the last Indy 1500, I bought 1000 primed .308 cases. Sorting through them, some had damage that I wasn't going to try to deal with so I was just tossing them in the trash. After thinking about it, I realize they all had live primers in them. So was this a bad thing to do? FWIW, there were probably 40-50 of them.

Matt

 

[xM3RC1L3SS1x]

I would have removed them. I'm guessing that they're already at the dump? If so it's to late. If it were me and they were still in my possession, be it trash can inside or outside , I would locate the brass and remove the primers.

 

[sloughfoot]

Yes, you screwed up. Brass should never go into the trash. Save brass for recycling. 80 cents a pound the last time I took my brass bucket in for cash.

 

[Notalentbum]

Looks like I am going dumpster diving! Sadly won't be the first time. I bought a new pair of shoes and the sales guy offered to toss my old one as I wore the new ones out the door. The next day I realized my custom orthotics were still in the old shoes. Luckily, after 30-40 minutes of digging in a big dumpster, I found them still relatively clean and dry.

Matt

 

[BogWalker]

I wouldn't worry about it. Not like it's gonna blow up the city dump or something.

 

[Gluemanz28]

Yes, you screwed up. Brass should never go into the trash. Save brass for recycling. 80 cents a pound the last time I took my brass bucket in for cash.

I tried to sell brass 22 LR and damaged, steel and aluminum cases to Omni Source and they wouldn't touch them. Who buys them?

 

[sloughfoot]

They buy brass, not steel or aluminum cases. Brass is valuable. Steel and aluminum is not so valuable.

 

[scrub buck]

I wouldn't fret over 50 cases.

 

[Gluemanz28]

They buy brass, not steel or aluminum cases. Brass is valuable. Steel and aluminum is not so valuable.

Who are they?????

 

[Broom_jm]

At the last Indy 1500, I bought 1000 primed .308 cases. Sorting through them, some had damage that I wasn't going to try to deal with...

Matt

What kind of damage were you not going to try to deal with? 50 out of 1,000 is 5% of your cases. That would bug me.

 

[sloughfoot]

Who are they?????

Metals recycler. Omnisource has bought my brass...?

 

[Notalentbum]

What kind of damage were you not going to try to deal with? 50 out of 1,000 is 5% of your cases. That would bug me.

Mostly the necks were damaged to the point I didn't want to attempt pushing the depriming pin through it.
This was pulled mil brass. I'm guessing the powder and bullet were saved as well but it wasn't very clean internally and didn't know if I could safely tumble it since it was still primed.
I've loaded a few hundred as is and shot most of that. It cleaned up nicely after shooting.

Matt

 

[Broom_jm]

Mostly the necks were damaged to the point I didn't want to attempt pushing the depriming pin through it.
This was pulled mil brass. I'm guessing the powder and bullet were saved as well but it wasn't very clean internally and didn't know if I could safely tumble it since it was still primed.
I've loaded a few hundred as is and shot most of that. It cleaned up nicely after shooting.

Matt

Were the necks out of round, dinged up, or seriously crushed, with distinct creases in the metal?

 

[Notalentbum]

Mostly crushed. Some of them were somewhat my fault I think. I had loaded some of them but backed off the depriming rod when sizing. For whatever reason the neck sizing cone on the depriming rod was distorting the necks somehow, making them too big OD. I still don't understand what was happening but on the rest I have completely removed the depriming rod so it's no long a problem. The bullets still fit decent so I'm not going to worry about it.

Matt

 

[modlaw]

I would have removed them. I'm guessing that they're already at the dump? If so it's to late. If it were me and they were still in my possession, be it trash can inside or outside , I would locate the brass and remove the primers.

How do you safely remove a hot primer?

 

[1775usmarine]

Very carefully.

 

[modlaw]

Very carefully.

I've just started reloading. Thanks for the reply.

 

[sloughfoot]

How do you safely remove a hot primer?

The same way you remove a fired primer. There is no danger in doing so.

 

[modlaw]

The same way you remove a fired primer. There is no danger in doing so.

Thanks slough. I looked in all the manuals but none had a mention of this. I'm sure it will come up as I load more and more. BTW, is that your 172. I used to fly a Cherokee 6 back in my youth.