How To Make Safe Dummy Cartridges

For safe practice, feed-testing and instructional purposes, having a set of dummy cartridges on hand that are impossible to confuse (visually) with live cartridges is useful.

But the store-bought dummy cartridges are quite expensive so, for those who already reload their own ammunition, this video shows how you can make your own, starting with a cartridge with a bullet seated, but having no live primer and no gunpowder inside.

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