How to you carry your 209 Primers on the field?

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

I've been using a 5.56 strip clip that I bent a bit smaller (narrower) with some pliers. 

Makes the strikey side of the primer covered in metal and with a hole drilled in one end, it's tied onto a pouch it's stored in. 

As they are quite firmly in place, makes it easy to just take one when needed and I top it up between game days, it can take around 12 at a time 

They will strike from underneath given enough of a whack, or a direct strike to the base of the anvil. 

You really want the base of the primer (bit with the hole) covered as that's where the brisant material will explode from. 

Look at a fired cartridge that has been hit by a firing pin that is too long.  The pin will pierce the striker and the metal of the pin will be burnt to such an extent that the hardening goes and it becomes pitted and brittle.  The pierced metal face of the primer will be burned black as it has been exposed to such high temps.   Now imagine that amount of heated material hitting human skin.  If a primer goes off in your hand for example, it will likely leave a disabling amount of damage.  I know I'm harping on, but I've worked in this field years ago.   

 

[Rogerborg]

Surely all these problems can be avoided by employing a trusty bearer/loader to handle such mundane duties, while you focus on the important business of engaging with a typical airsoft opponent?

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[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Surely all these problems can be avoided by employing a trusty bearer/loader to handle such mundane duties, while you focus on the important business of engaging with a typical airsoft opponent?

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I thought that that was a plate from Grogan's Cape to Cairo, but its a bit earlier and bloody fascinating:  https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/savage-africa-being-the-narrative-of-a-tour-in-equatorial-southwestern#/?tab=about

Has unicorns in apparently.  Love the look of outrage on the gorilla's face, and its over emphasised opposable big toes.  

Here's Grogan showing how to get directions from pygmies: