How do I disable and dispose of live primers?

[Mootness]

I had about a dozen primers that needed disposed of. Some were decapped with a universal decapping die carefully (I set none off by doing this) and others had light/dud type strikes on them.

I heard about using water, and I read somewhere else wd40. 30 minutes soaking in water didn't disable them. A hammer confirmed this.

The same wet primers were then sprayed with wd40, and left to sit for 10 minutes. All primers that did not have dud strikes on them still went off using the same hammer method.

How do you disable live primers? So far the only method I have found is a hammer.

n.b.: A match to a single flake of powder showed that Unique withstood the same water & wd40 & burned. Whatever powder is in the remington corlokt rounds I was unable to set off with a flame after the water wd40 treatment.

[PocketProtector]

Load em and shoot em

[Mootness]

The below is me. There's a lot of energy in a primer... and I'd rather not have all of that noise and chemical contaminants sprayed all over the room.

[rkrcpa]

Sounds like the hammer was working pretty good for you.

[gnbrotz]

The below is me. There's a lot of energy in a primer... and I'd rather not have all of that noise and chemical contaminants sprayed all over the room.

Then perhaps do it outside?

[Azzy]

Toss them in the burn pile? Load some wax bullets for practice?

[Flash]

The WD-40 and the water will take a little time to deactivate them. They really have a type of seal there.

Relatively speaking, there is actually very little energy in a primer - remember, it will not even push a lead bullet half=way down the barrel of a pistol. So, slosh them with WD-40, and toss them in the burn barrel. They will probably be inactivated in 24 hrs by that, and if not, the burning will comple the job.

Flash