Inert primers

[Poltergeist]

Not sure this is the right area for this but seems like it. I'm looking for inert or dummy primers for 30-06 cartridges for a project I'm doing. I'm trying to stay away from real primers that I'll have to take apart or have to fire in some way before I can use them. Or if anyone has a suggestion for something else I can use that looks like a primer. I would like something in silver just for the look but will take a brass look also if that's all I can find. Thanks for any help you can give me.

[jandmtv]

take real primers, spray WD40 on the anvil side, let it soak in, and the primers will be deactivated. You can safely remove the anvil at this point.

[CSACANNONEER]

take real primers, spray WD40 on the anvil side, let it soak in, and the primers will be deactivated. You can safely remove the anvil at this point.

Danger, Will Robertson! Danger! This does not always work. I know a few people who have indepenently tested ways to deactivate primers and have all come to the conclusion that the ONLY sure way is to fire them. Please, whatever you do, DO NOT try to deactivate primers! If it's that important, take some used ones, remove the anvils, hammer the cups out so they look new and use them. But, DO NOT TRUST any "deactivated" primers to be truely deactivated.

[Poltergeist]

No, I had already read on a number of sites that soaking real primers doesn't always work so that was out. If I need to I'll take real primers and throw them 1 at a time in a tin can on a flame and let them go off and then use them. I was just figuring that since a number of people collect casing to display that someone would make fake/dummy/inert primers for display and that someone here would know where they were sold.

[JDay]

CCI makes inert primers, not easy to find though.

[bohoki]

shucks i always have a big pile under my press every time i reload

maybe i could dig some out of the waffles of my shoe for ya

[nobs11]

Danger, Will Robertson! Danger! This does not always work. I know a few people who have indepenently tested ways to deactivate primers and have all come to the conclusion that the ONLY sure way is to fire them. Please, whatever you do, DO NOT try to deactivate primers! If it's that important, take some used ones, remove the anvils, hammer the cups out so they look new and use them. But, DO NOT TRUST any "deactivated" primers to be truely deactivated.

What he said. I've tried motor oil, WD-40 in the past. Then loaded them into empty cases. They still go bang. Modern primers are notoriously reliable. Which is usually a good thing.

[Kruzr]

When I first started reloading, I (naturally) messed up about 20 rounds. At the time, I wouldn't deprime them on my press (I do now) so I put them in a jar half filled with WD-40 since I read on the errornet that it would kill the primers. Three years later, I pulled those bullets and deprimed the cartridges. I reloaded the primers into cases with no powder. Everyone of them went off.

WD-40 does not deactivate the primers!

To the OP, if you want to, you take a fired primer, pry off the anvil (easier to pry the insides out) and knock the dent out. You can then fill it with silicon on the inside and you have a dummy primer that looks (kinda) unfired from the cartridge bottom.

[CSACANNONEER]

CCI makes inert primers, not easy to find though.

Well, I have run acroos a few. OK, I'm not sure if they were inert, they just didn't go bang. All kidding aside, thanks for the info. I was completely unaware that anyone made them commercially. I'd suggest that someone who is making the pilgramage to SHOT this year, talk with CCI and find out how an individual can obtain inert primmers from them.

[JDay]

Well, I have run acroos a few. OK, I'm not sure if they were inert, they just didn't go bang. All kidding aside, thanks for the info. I was completely unaware that anyone made them commercially. I'd suggest that someone who is making the pilgramage to SHOT this year, talk with CCI and find out how an individual can obtain inert primmers from them.

They make them for reloading classes.

[Poltergeist]

I went to the CCI web site and contacted them to find out the part number for the inert primers so I can order them from a dealer. Thanks everyone.

[sargenv]

A few years ago at the NRA convention in Reno, I talked to the MEC rep and they also had inert Alliant Red dot in addition to inert shotshell primers. Pretty slick.