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Old 12-31-2010, 10:10 PM
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large rifle primers in uncharged .308 case fired in a rifle sound like a cap gun not even a 22
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Primers are the main source of lead vapor exposure for shooters. Firing primers inside your garage is pretty bad for you and definitely a bad idea if you have kids.
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* Lab Environment: Panoche Hills

* Caliber Type:
9MM

Bullet Type:
115GR Winchester (White Box). NOTE: Bullet and powder was removed from the brass casing for test.

* Firearm Type:
Khar CW9
Barrel: 3.6″, conventional rifling; 1-10 right-hand twist.
Length O/A: 5.9"

* dB metering Device:

Make- PCE Instruments
Model- PCE-MSL 1
dB rating- 35-135DB
Calibrated 02/19 (New)

Distance from EOB (End Of Barrel):
2'


dB Reading= 87 DB




dB Example's

0 healthy hearing threshold
10 a pin dropping
20 rustling leaves
30 whisper
40 babbling brook
50 light traffic
60 conversational speech
70 shower
75 toilet flushing
80 alarm clock
85 passing diesel truck
90 squeeze toy
95 inside subway car
100 motorcycle (riding)
105 sporting event
110 rock band
115 emergency vehicle siren
120 thunderclap
125 balloon popping
130 peak stadium crowd noise
135 air raid siren
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Old 05-24-2019, 10:09 PM
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from vague memory: as kids, we got a ziplock full of primers from (somewhere, i forget where). popped some with a hammer, popped some by setting them on the lip inside the water meter cover, and slamming the lid on them.

definitely less loud than hitting a roll of the paper caps with a hammer.
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Old 05-24-2019, 10:46 PM
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If a shell is loaded with just the primer and then "shot", how loud would that be?

If done in an uninsulated garage, will the neighbors flip out and would I get to esplain to "the man"?
pistol rounds have six or so grains of shotgun / pistol powder (re: weak). I think a whole lot of the sound is probably the primer.
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Old 05-24-2019, 11:00 PM
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1 primer not bad at all. 100 +/- at once is deafening...

Recently had an almost full tube of primers detonate at once while using Federal Primers in my Dillon 650.

Apparently this is problem with Federal Premiers since the cups are quite a bit softer than other brands.

The hearing in my right ear has yet to come back.




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Old 05-25-2019, 3:00 PM
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It is louder using a revolver than a semi, many more ports to push the noise through. So my assumption is those that say it isn't loud used a semi and those that say it is loud used a revolver.
And yes, it will back out against the back plate and lock up your revolver cylinder, but you can remove it....eventually.
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I've used a hammer many times, never bothered my neighbors (live in north San Diego) but it sure does get the ears ringing. Even had a piece of something shoot out and hit me in the hand, now that stung.

One time I was using a bullet puller hammer type since the primer was upside down. on the second wack, the primer went off. Maybe it was me but it seemed way louder and got my heart racing at about 10x, holly frick that scared me

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This thread is 8 years old guys. .....

Dude bumped an 8 year old thread....

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1 primer not bad at all. 100 +/- at once is deafening...

Recently had an almost full tube of primers detonate at once while using Federal Primers in my Dillon 650.

Apparently this is problem with Federal Premiers since the cups are quite a bit softer than other brands.

The hearing in my right ear has yet to come back.
There was a Dillon reloader that dropped a tube of primers, instead of making that sound he grabbed for it. Anyhow he folded the tube and busted a string of primers off with a kirack chop, He blamed the primers and static electricity.

If not for Federal primers I would be out of primers. When I load a tray or tube I fill the tube and or tray. I know, some reloaders insist they have to tip toe around Federal primers; not me.

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Old 05-28-2019, 8:04 AM
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Not very loud at all. Only a bit louder than an air rifle. -- Come to think of it the same as a 22 bb or cb round.
I shoot 22pellets in my 218 bee with only a primer. The neighbor has never heard it.
please do not take serious the striking one with a hammer, flying debris could be painful.
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If you have a projectile, you'll trap and dissipate the gas through the volume of the barrel.

From experience, I can say a primed and otherwise-empty case fired in either an AR-15 or a 308 AR-10 is LOUD. Enough to make my ears ring (and get me running back inside to establish plausible deniability.) I cannot recall setting off a primed case in a pistol, but I suspect it would be equivalent.

That said, if you've ever beat an unsupported flat piece of wood with a hammer, you're probably in the ballpark for noise generation.
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This is like, the mother of all necro posts.
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Yea, but it does bring back memories... I had a primer ignite while hand priming. My wife to this day accuses me of trying to shoot her.

Was I the only one who took a whole roll (25 I think) of paper caps for a cap gun and hit it with a sledge hammer? Ears rang for about an hour.
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I used to shoot the plastic dummy rounds through one of my revolver in 44 Mag and they weren't that bad. I would shoot them in the garage up against the hard wooden plank and the primer would cause the plastic dummy round to fire through the gun fast enough to shoot a clean hole in a piece of paper
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You’re not the only one - I was a dumb kid too. lol.


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Was I the only one who took a whole roll (25 I think) of paper caps for a cap gun and hit it with a sledge hammer? Ears rang for about an hour.
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You’re not the only one - I was a dumb kid too. lol.
This one makes at least three!!!!!
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Old 05-29-2019, 7:38 AM
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Was I the only one who took a whole roll (25 I think) of paper caps for a cap gun and hit it with a sledge hammer? Ears rang for about an hour.
We used to drop bricks on them.
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I had a 7 yd wax bullet range in my garage in suburban San Diego. With all the doors closed the noise outside wasn't attention getting wrt to neighbors.

One asked me what he had heard and I told him it was a pneumatic staple driver I was using on a furniture project.

So the furniture project and the stapler stayed on the work bench for all future wax bullet range work.

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Old 05-29-2019, 6:10 PM
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ive blown a couple going too fast on my dillon.. It's LOUD.. Like greater than a cap gun but less than a firecracker..
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I used to shoot the plastic dummy rounds through one of my revolver in 44 Mag and they weren't that bad. I would shoot them in the garage up against the hard wooden plank and the primer would cause the plastic dummy round to fire through the gun fast enough to shoot a clean hole in a piece of paper
I still have a 50 round box of them in 38, mine use large pistol primers. But still not that load. I’d just crank some rock music in the garage and fire away.

A 9mm round is right about 160 DB.

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I know a guy that use to put ear plugs and only a primer in 38s and shoot the kids in the pool.
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* Lab Environment: Panoche Hills

* Caliber Type:
9MM

Bullet Type:
115GR Winchester (White Box). NOTE: Bullet and powder was removed from the brass casing for test.

* Firearm Type:
Khar CW9
Barrel: 3.6″, conventional rifling; 1-10 right-hand twist.
Length O/A: 5.9"

* dB metering Device:

Make- PCE Instruments
Model- PCE-MSL 1
dB rating- 35-135DB
Calibrated 02/19 (New)

Distance from EOB (End Of Barrel):
2'


dB Reading= 87 DB




dB Example's

0 healthy hearing threshold
10 a pin dropping
20 rustling leaves
30 whisper
40 babbling brook
50 light traffic
60 conversational speech
70 shower
75 toilet flushing
80 alarm clock
85 passing diesel truck
90 squeeze toy
95 inside subway car
100 motorcycle (riding)
105 sporting event
110 rock band
115 emergency vehicle siren
120 thunderclap
125 balloon popping
130 peak stadium crowd noise
135 air raid siren
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When I first got into reloading, I tried one in the den. I couldn't believe how loud it was.
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It is not loud or illegal to do. No different than a cap gun. Doubt anyone would even hear it.
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If a shell is loaded with just the primer and then "shot", how loud would that be?

If done in an uninsulated garage, will the neighbors flip out and would I get to esplain to "the man"?
A primer went off in my press inside a closed work room.

It was as loud as my 380 backup in an open field when I fired it and forgot to put on my ear protection.
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It depends on what you discharge them in. A rifle? Not that loud. A pistol? Very loud. It will make your ears ring. Don’t do it. It’s stupid. If you need to deprime a case, deprime it. The primer won’t go off.
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