Shot in the stomach by LR primer

[gmerkt]

Here is the story. A guy was prepping .308 brass for reloading. He finished annealing case mouths, then discovered that there were two that he missed. He forgot (maybe) these two were primed, or he knew they were primed (more likely). He decided to anneal these two cases which had the live primers in them. He did so, then had the two lying in a leather glove in his left hand. He was walking back to his work bench when one of the primers detonated from heat transfer from the metal case. The primer blew back, burned a hole in his tee shirt, then made a burned hole in his belly hide. The brass case was propelled forward from the force of the primer going off and skittered under a water heater. The hole burned in his belly hide first turned an ugly white, then red. The tissue around the hole turned yellow for approx. an inch surrounding it.

The guy had done this before without issue with a few .30-06 cases. Which are longer than .308, and maybe not as much heat made its way to the primers on that occasion. CCI primers were involved.

So in case you ever wondered if heat will make a primer detonate, here is the answer.

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[dangerranger60]

Did you get pics? You know how we like pics! DR

 

[Tlock]

Here is the story. A guy was prepping .308 brass for reloading. He finished annealing case mouths, then discovered that there were two that he missed. He forgot (maybe) these two were primed, or he knew they were primed (more likely). He decided to anneal these two cases which had the live primers in them. He did so, then had the two lying in a leather glove in his left hand. He was walking back to his work bench when one of the primers detonated from heat transfer from the metal case. The primer blew back, burned a hole in his tee shirt, then made a burned hole in his belly hide. The brass case was propelled forward from the force of the primer going off and skittered under a water heater. The hole burned in his belly hide first turned an ugly white, then red. The tissue around the hole turned yellow for approx. an inch surrounding it.

The guy had done this before without issue with a few .30-06 cases. Which are longer than .308, and maybe not as much heat made its way to the primers on that occasion. CCI primers were involved.

So in case you ever wondered if heat will make a primer detonate, here is the answer.

I bet that hurt! Did you get treatment?

 

[gmerkt]

Did you get pics? You know how we like pics! DR

Sorry, no pics available.

 

[gmerkt]

I bet that hurt! Did you get treatment?

Wait a minute, who said it was me? I would be way too embarrassed to admit to such folly. No treatment was sought. The primer cup was later found so it was known to not be embedded in the stomach.

 

[Tlock]

Ok.....just a friend then. I'm not embarrassed about anything anymore

 

[Capn Jack]

OUCH !

As a kid I thought I'd see if I could fire a 12GA. cartridge with my trusty Red Ryder.
You can and the primer put a scratch on my ear as it went by.
Sometimes I wonder how I've survived.

 

[P7M13]

As we say, "stupid should hurt."
Not one of the guy's brighter moments.
edit to add: I do a lot of stupid stuff, but that's one I know better than to try.

 

[64MercurysRule]

You're amognts friends here .... It could have been worse...... Er ah for your friend .

View: https://youtu.be/sVSfcWUxu_Q?si=GiOb98Jxbgs25qg4

 

[Sxsnuf]

Lucky he didn't "shoot his eye out"!
Really glad the guy is gonna be OK

 

[CLT65]

I knew a guy a long time ago, one of my grandfather's friends when I was a kid, who stuck a shotgun shell in a fence and shot it with a BB gun. The primer came back, hit him in the elbow and traveled a ways up inside his arm. He had to go have it surgically removed. I remember him showing us the scar.

Those primers pack a heck of a wallop. I needed to remove a live primer from a case a while back and was too lazy to put the die in the press to pop it out gently. Instead I did what I've done a hundred times; I put it in a loose shellholder on my loading bench and tapped it out with a punch and a hammer. There is still a primer-sized permanent dent in the formica. Fortunately no harm done to anything but the tabletop.

I may or may not admit to knowing someone, er, a friend, who might have also annealed a case neck or two with live primers. He did have the foresight to do it right next to a faucet with a trickle of water running, and run a little water on the base right away. Admittedly still not a smart thing to do.

 

[eightyeight mag]

 

[gmerkt]

Instead I did what I've done a hundred times;

Familiarity breeds complacency. We do things we shouldn't any number of times without consequences; we should expect a mishap eventually.

 

[Member 53867]

Sounds like the kind of guy that checks his fuel level with a match.




And his IQ with a dipstick.

 

[quneur]

Darwin Participation Award

 

[dhshred710]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/6wOUi1QDxEA?si=zNDFf73cxsl3fjse

 

[Certaindeaf]

View: https://youtu.be/msQdUw3jSjM?feature=shared

 

[Spitpatch]

Bowhunter in Montana (NOT me) jumped back into his ground blind after taking a whizz.

Broadhead in his bow quiver dislodged, went into his thigh, hit the Femoral and he was comatose upon lifeflight arrival.

Local news interviewed him afterward, and he said something like, "It was a freak accident! I mean, I coulda jumped into that blind a thousand times and that would NEVER happen!"

My brother (sardonic humor was his specialty) watching this, said, "Now, WHY would you want to do that a thousand times?"

 

[Anonymous 510]

I actually had about 200 federal primers explode almost in my face about 6 months back I'm lucky 2 still have my right hand will not use federal ever again... I have photos of hand but way torn up for a post here

 

[arakboss]

This is why I wait 5 seconds after annealing before adding powder charge.