Captaingyro
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I bought a bunch of primed, unfired LC 7.62 cases that were previously loaded but had the bullets pulled. I intended to just load them up and shoot them, but it turns out the industrial bullet-pullers were a little rough on the cases, so they need to be resized. Problem is, there's residue from the pitch bullet sealant in the necks, and it tends to gum up the expander ball. I've decided that it's best to just de-prime them and go through the entire case-prep routine of cleaning, sizing, trimming, and primer-pocket treatment.
I hate to waste all those good, military magnum primers though. Has anyone ever attempted to use primers that have been removed after having been crimped in? I've de-primed a handful of the badly mangled cases, and the primers seemed to come out without much more force than un-crimped primers, but I still wonder if I'm pushing the anvil back too much. I know I could try loading them in a couple of test cases and see if they fired, but before I load a thousand of them I'd like to know if someone else has tried this. A ten or twenty percent failure rate would probably mean it's not worth it, but I could live with a couple of failures per hundred.
Also, I wonder if the potential for slam-fires is increased. If so, I have a couple of rifles without floating firing pins I could use them in.
What do you think?
I hate to waste all those good, military magnum primers though. Has anyone ever attempted to use primers that have been removed after having been crimped in? I've de-primed a handful of the badly mangled cases, and the primers seemed to come out without much more force than un-crimped primers, but I still wonder if I'm pushing the anvil back too much. I know I could try loading them in a couple of test cases and see if they fired, but before I load a thousand of them I'd like to know if someone else has tried this. A ten or twenty percent failure rate would probably mean it's not worth it, but I could live with a couple of failures per hundred.
Also, I wonder if the potential for slam-fires is increased. If so, I have a couple of rifles without floating firing pins I could use them in.
What do you think?