bought brass already sized and primed

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Okay how do handle this I recently bought some 44 Mag brass that was sized and Primed However, Not knowing how long and where they were stored I am hesitant to load . The problem lies in how to resize and get rid of a live primer. He belled the case mouth so I cant load it and snap the primers because they wont fit into a lever action Yes I can take the depriming pin and resize but then unless I dry fire them they still have the primers. so any suggestions. No I dont want to waste the powder or time to load them and try.
 
I’ve kept primed cases for many, many years at the ready to be loaded, never had an issue yet.
That being said, you’re right to be careful because you don’t know how diligent the other guy was.
I’ll second the other post, size a few down and see if they fire. If not, deprime, resize and away you go. If they do fire, load and shoot.

Stay safe.
 
I have 600 live primers I punched out since he used one brand and I use another. Just go easy on the press handle and no issue depriming them.

But, likely yours are fine. A buddy of mine fills ammo cans with primed brass. It might be 20 years before he gets to the bottom of the can.
 
I would pull the deprimer pin and size the brass to make sure there sized properly. Then test the unknown primer with a know charge. Run them over a crony and compare data. More than likely there will not be a difference. If you have lightened FP springs in your gun you may need to replace them, otherwise use them.
 
load one and test. or run the case into the bullet seat die and test fire primer only. bet there is nothing wrong with them. i primed a bunch for 5.56 10 years ago and just reload them this month. they all shot. they were kept in a card board box until i loaded them. it takes a lot to mess up a primer.
 
I would load up a few of those cases and try them out. If they were kept in the container they came in they should be fine.
 
If you know the identity of the primers, load and pew.

If you’re exceedingly cautious, press out the primers. It’s not nuclear fission, just press them out.
 
Dead Eye Duck said:
Okay how do handle this I recently bought some 44 Mag brass that was sized and Primed However, Not knowing how long and where they were stored I am hesitant to load . The problem lies in how to resize and get rid of a live primer. He belled the case mouth so I cant load it and snap the primers because they wont fit into a lever action Yes I can take the depriming pin and resize but then unless I dry fire them they still have the primers. so any suggestions. No I dont want to waste the powder or time to load them and try.
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Never had thought about buying pre sized brass ...
Does a case freely chamber in your weapon?
 
I'm using some primers I bought back in the seventies that got pushed to the back of the shelf and forgot about. I haven't had a dud primer out of the bunch yet. I'm also shooting us some WW 230 powder from the same era that was forgotten about and it goes bang every time just like it did when new.
 
Dead Eye Duck said:
Okay how do handle this I recently bought some 44 Mag brass that was sized and Primed However, Not knowing how long and where they were stored I am hesitant to load . The problem lies in how to resize and get rid of a live primer. He belled the case mouth so I cant load it and snap the primers because they wont fit into a lever action Yes I can take the depriming pin and resize but then unless I dry fire them they still have the primers. so any suggestions. No I dont want to waste the powder or time to load them and try.
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Unless those cases were kept in a bucket of motor oil, they're likely just fine.
 
The primers would be the last thing I would worry about. They are hard to kill. The resizing would concern me though. I would run them through my press with my dies and resize them before i loaded them.
 
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I'm using some primers I bought back in the seventies that got pushed to the back of the shelf and forgot about. I haven't had a dud primer out of the bunch yet. I'm also shooting us some WW 230 powder from the same era that was forgotten about and it goes bang every time just like it did when new.
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I loaded .45 ammo back in the 80s, I quit shooting .45s but my son just started and he shot a bunch of my 35 year old .45s, They worked fine, just smoked more than new stuff.
 
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