Re: Pulling bullets


"Omelet" <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g1q470$4p2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# In article <g1p7qp$rg0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tom" <t@xxxxxxx>
# wrote:
#
# # Omelet,
# #
# # Yes, it can be safe it you go slowly and don't ram the decapping pin into
# # the primer,
# # regardless of its position in the case. I have made several priming mistakes
# # and have
# # successfully deprimed all of them using this method.
# # Dispose of the primer in a safe fashion as well. I had been saving all
# # of my live, but
# # hosed up primers and then smashing them with a hammer. I have since decided
# # that
# # this method "probably" wasn't the most well thought out means of disposal.
#
# Any accidents?

Not really. I just didn't like the pieces flying around, or the marks it was making
on my deer cleaning concrete slab. I had put a lot of work into it with the winch
and all and didn't want to be hammering on it any longer. Thence into the burn
barrel.

#
# # So now I just toss them into my burn barrel and they all go off as I burn
# # all of
# # my paper trash in a singular attempt to ward off the next, and inevitable,
# # ice age.
# # The Global Warming crowd is going to be very embarrassed when we are snow
# # skiing in Texas. And soon. Maybe.
# #
# # Regards,
# #
# # Tom
#
# Thanks. :-)
# Dropping an exposed, live primer into oil should kill it?
# --
# Peace! Om
#

Well, I had tried that before hammering them without much success. I kept a jar full of
kerosene, and tried some other stuff too, but after weeks/months of soaking the little
buggers would still go off with a bang. I used the hammer first to test that the
soaking was working and found that it was not.
That is when I began just hammering, which lasted a short while, before the burn
barrel solution came to me.
Inside the barrel, with a nice roaring fire going, they sound just like caps going off.
But you are probably too young to know what those were like.

Regards,

Tom


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