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To: DBrow
"You usually must work to get a primer to go off."

Not really. Static electricity can ignite primers, as well as percussion and heat. Primers are not as clean as they appear. Minute amounts of the priming mix can end up on the primer exteriors during manufacture. In addition, tiny particles of priming mix 'dust' can fall from primers and accumulate in the bottom of a bulk container. Very slight movement can then ignite the primer mix and a chain reaction within the other primers can result.

Primers should never be removed from their original grid-oriented containers and stored in any other bulk container. Primer feed tubes on ammunition reloading equipment are the only exception.

37 posted on 12/28/2010 9:55:55 PM PST by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: Buffalo Head; DBrow
DBrow, tell that to the wife when she picks one up with the beater bar on the vacuum cleaner and it goes off.
71 posted on 12/29/2010 9:35:19 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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