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To: cripplecreek
I don’t know. A bunch of primers aren’t likely to go off like a large bomb. More like 700 firecrackers.

Primers are known to mass explode-A reloader's nightmare. Lee Progressive owners are warned to use only CCI primers, for this reason.

They do not go off like a string of firecrackers..More like a sharp roar.

They are packed by the hundred in little boxes with their open ends all facing down against the box. If one goes, the flash is propagated to those around it..

29 posted on 12/28/2010 3:25:22 PM PST by Gorzaloon ("Mother...My Couric itches.")
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To: Gorzaloon

Sounds like more of a fire hazard than an explosive hazard.


32 posted on 12/28/2010 3:26:53 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Gorzaloon
They are packed by the hundred in little boxes with their open ends all facing down against the box. If one goes, the flash is propagated to those around it..

Even given that, I have known fouled weapons to leave a slight dent in a primer and still not cause the round to fire. Rechambering the round in a clean weapon produced results.

So just how thin was the bag and just how hard did the baggage gorilla 'set it down'?

Short of driving over it, I don't see the primers going off.

87 posted on 12/28/2010 8:44:44 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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