Loaded round stuck in shell holder because primer not seated

[9mmepiphany]

I thought the idea of turrets was to save time changing dies, not so much to use them like a progressive? Do one individual step on every case, advance to next die, do that step to every case, etc.

I'd never thought of using a turret press for one operation, for a batch of cases, at a time. Changing dies, especially when using the Hornady bushings or a Co-Ax arrangement takes almost no time...I have the InLine Fabrication die holders on my Ultramount which make it even easier

I always thought the advantage of a turret press was that you would perform all the steps need to produce one completed round at a time so that you could stop at any point and not have a number of partially processed cases.

 

[jmorris]

I'd never thought of using a turret press for one operation, for a batch of cases, at a time.

Lots and lots of folks use them just that way, then again most turrets are not auto indexing.

 

[Malamute]

I'd never thought of using a turret press for one operation, for a batch of cases, at a time. Changing dies, especially when using the Hornady bushings or a Co-Ax arrangement takes almost no time...I have the InLine Fabrication die holders on my Ultramount which make it even easier

I always thought the advantage of a turret press was that you would perform all the steps need to produce one completed round at a time so that you could stop at any point and not have a number of partially processed cases.

Fair enough. My point of reference is quite dated, being old books that described them as saving time for the basic operations without having to mess with changing dies. Id likely use a turret as described for batching each step. I find it simpler to stay focused on each step when doing it exclusively until the batch is done instead of trying to do much at once. My dad used to seat primers in the size die right after sizing and decapping. I liked to separate those steps to keep better track of them. He didn't load in much volume in any event. I can get a decent rhythm working one step at a time on a single stage and only having the pay attention to one thing at a time.

 

[Jenrick]

Also I do not feel that soaking a loaded round in anything will positively make a round inert. So don't depend on this method. FWIW I have always been able to take apart whatever I make.

Well the priming compound dissolves and separates when wet or oily, rendering it inert. Modern smokeless powder turns into go when wet or oily, and chemically changes composition to something that isn't going to ignite. I'm not sure what else you're looking for to make a round inert?

-Jenrick

 

[GW Staar]

Looks like a lot of different ways of thinking here, thanks for all the different replies. I never felt like it is a safe practice to try and seat a primer on a loaded round so I put it back in the press and ran it up through the turret opening and grabbed it with side cutters and pulled the bullet. I dumped the powder and finished seating the primer to get it off the shell holder.

Glad you were successful....your dikes may even be better to grab with than my needle nose vise grips.

 

[9mmepiphany]

With his issue resolved, we can put this one to bed