Depriming live primers?

[jcwit]

One more note regarding primers. Anyone who has used the Lee Loader which uses a mallet to operate it more than likely has had a primer go off when seating a primer will know just how LITTLE power a primer has.

Yes it will wake you up, startle you even, but hurt you nah, ain't gonna happen.

 

[kingmt]

You just ruined the stories about all the holes in the ceiling from Dad using the Lee Loader.

 

[JellyJar]

I am still a new guy at reloading and today I was loading some 45colt brass. Somehow I skipped sizing one of the cases and when I went to seat and crimp the bullet it went all the way in! To save the case I had to use my bullet puller.

I was going to remove the decapping pin from my resizer die but it was in so tight I decided not to. Instead I took it out to the porch ( in case it went off and made a loud noise ) and just ran it through like a used case to resize and deprime it and the primer did not go off.

I threw away the primer just to be on the safe size then went through all the other steps and it is loaded and ready to go now.

 

[bluetopper]

Occasionally for me a primer gets flipped and I load it upside down. I've punched several out in the decapping die, no problem.

 

[jcwit]

I threw away the primer just to be on the safe size then went through all the other steps and it is loaded and ready to go now.

Safe side of what? Use it anyway, absolutly worse thing that could happen is it wouldn't go off.

 

[Josh45]

I seated a primer in sideways. I got a small screwdriver that fit into the flash hole and smacked it lightly. The primer fell out with no issues.

I had primed a .45 ACP case and I went to expand the case, For some reason, I needed to go back to the resizing die. I forgot about the primer and as the ram went up, The primer plopped right out at full speed. It didn't go off. It could have....

Tonight, Father had to deprime 180 rounds of 30-30 cases. He did all of them in less than an hour or so. Not one went off on him. He did use the Universal Decapping Die for that, Just in case.

 

[ranger335v]

"You just ruined the stories about all the holes in the ceiling from Dad using the Lee Loader. "

A lot of such stories are told just to see how gullible the listener is. Primers are quite small and they aren't dynamite so even IF one pops it can't do much, the 'blast' will be fully contained in the die - even in an ol' Lee Loader kit.

But primers are expensive; if they are good, why remove and toss them? If you want to FL size the cases just turn the decap/expander rod up or remove the decapping pn.

 

[StandingTall]

Just this past weekend, I decapped and reused 50 live small primers with a Lee resizing die. No problems here.