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Originally Posted by J. Scott Hanes
Bruce, did you "pop" the primers (fire them)? Did they all go off?
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I only removed them and threw them away. Could have put them in an antique primer tin.
When I was 13 or 14, learning to load shotgun shells, my mentor said not to fire primers in unloaded hulls. He said that they back out of the brass and that wasn’t recommended. So I never did.
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