I've been reloading 38/357 since last December. My procedure at this point is to tumble clean, decap/ resize and prime to put away for another day. When priming I choose to do it by hand wearing surgical gloves. I take out the primer sleeve, dump it on clean paper towel and flip them by moving the towel back and forth. Left hand inserts case into shell holder, right hand grabs the inverted primer and puts it in primer arm. My right hand doesn't touch anything but the primer except the handle on the ram to help eliminate contamination. The primed cases go into the "block" they originally came in from the factory. Any issue with my procedure(other than touching the primer at all) or storing them this way in a cool/dry place until loading? I may be over thinking this but want to use an abundance of caution and seek your advice.
Personally I think you guys are being a little too delicate with primer handling.
My handload count is easily in the hundreds of thousands of rounds, and I have never once been delicate handling primers. I don't wear gloves, I don't concern myself with any precaution other than eye protection, and not getting which is what mixed up with another.
Look, simply put, the oil on your hands isn't going to damage or otherwise screw up a primer.
I literally have thousands of primers from the 1950-60-70's in my cabinet which still work just fine. Look at how they used to be packaged;
I *tried* to de-activate primers once by soaking them in soapy water for a week (that is a long story involving a large box of primed brass, stored in a garage, and termites which got in through a crack in the garage floor and decided to nest in the box with the brass). 100% of the primers still fired after the mud was dissolved and the cases were subsequently tumbled.
Yes, a week long soak in soapy water (no projectile, no bullet, just primed cases) AND a tumbling with all sorts of detritus from dirty media getting in to the primers.
And
every single last one of them were still viable, and had to be dry fired before I popped them out on the press.
Even a shot of WD40 isn't enough to immediately disable them. It takes a good
long soak in an oil based solvent to kill them dead.
You don't have to baby the things. They are far more resilient than you'd think!