Primer Question

[deerhunter61]

I changed from standard large rifle primers to Magnum Rifle Primers for my 300 mag. I have some brass with the large rifle primers placed in them. So my question is when I resize/press the large rifle primers out of the brass so I can replace them with the Magnum Primers can I still use the large rifle primers that I removed from the brass?

 

[longdayjake]

Usually the answer is yes. However, you will get a bunch of guys that will tell you not to punch out the old primers because you might make one go off. Just go slow and you shouldn't have a problem. Keep your face away from them when you do it. Just be careful and you will be fine.

 

[buck460XVR]

Like longdayjake, I have no problem with punching out live primers, but I generally dispose of them outta fear that I may have contaminated them or damaged them during the process. At the relatively cheap price for primers, I'd rather pay the extra 3 cents a round to make sure they go boom.

 

[jcwit]

Should be no problem at all as long as you use a press to remove the std. Lg. Rifle primers. Primers ignite from impact not pressure. Using a press you're pushing it out with pressure, just don't drop the handle, even then if one should happen to go off it not a catastrophic event, however it might scare you. A person would have to hover over the top of the press to get hit by anything that might cause harm and even then very unlikely, possibably some powder like fragments "might" be felt.

Back in the old days when I first started reloading using the Lee "Slap-O-Matic" once in a great while a primer would "POP". Nothing happened except to my nerves. hahaha

Remember a single primer is not a stick of dynamite.

Oh and yes they can be used again, done it hundreds of times.

 

[FROGO207]

As posted go slow and use caution. All will go OK. I have removed hundreds over the years, never had one go bang. Also reused those same primers and all went boom. That said I would not use reused primers for any hunting ammo or SD ammo. Target would be OK however.

 

[deerhunter61]

Thanks all! I removed them all and they all popped out easy except one. None went boom.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I have used the press to remove primers from handgun brass and re-used all of them without a failure. Make sure to use the appropriate eye protection just in case.