High primers on loaded rounds

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Hi there,

I'm new into reloading and I made my first badge of 9mm rounds with a Dillon 650 XL

I have few loaded rounds seated with high primers, any suggestion what to do with those rounds.

I tough first use a kinetic hammer to remove the bullet and then deprimed them , but I dont feel very conformable with this idea or I will simply get rid of them at the shooting club.

Any suggestions or advices will really be helpful

Thanks

Sylvain
 
Not cleaning the pockets well enough maybe was the cause. Seems like too much work but what you suggest could work. I have done exactly that, removed the bullet,put it back in the press and popped the primer without issues.
 
Put it in the press and seat the primer deeper, easy.

If you feel concerned that it will go off (you would have to be the guy that anything and everything bad happens too) it won't unless you give it a sharp hit. Slow and steady wins the race.

Failing that use a bullet puller and seat deeper like Winchester suggested.
 
I use a Forster bench primer that is very sturdy and seats the primer to the exact depth everytime..

I use it each time after inspection of cases when using my Xl650 in a loading session
 
If you want to pull the projectiles, invest the 30 or 40 bucks to buy a collet bullet puller die. Best investment you can make when buying your loading kit, because you can quickly and easily pull out the bad cartridges on any press and reuse everything.

You would need this: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/680804/rcbs-collet-bullet-puller?cm_vc=sugv680804

and this: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/795727/rcbs-collet-bullet-puller-collet-35-caliber-9mm-357-diameter
 
If the rounds are complete (with powder and a bullet seated), I would not try to seat the primer deeper. If the primer goes off, the powder will burn off as well.

I would not hesitate to use a kinetic (hammer) bullet puller with high primers, and have don so many times.... Once the problem rounds are taken apart, no problem seating the primers deeper.

Stan
 
OldDude said:
I would not hesitate to use a kinetic (hammer) bullet puller with high primers, and have don so many times.... Once the problem rounds are taken apart, no problem seating the primers deeper.

Stan
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I love how kinetic bullet pullers have a warning on them not to use with a loaded cartridge. Yes, it's to cover their own ass for litigation purposes... but really, can anyone think of a reason that they would use a kinetic puller on a non loaded cartridge? Yes... I recognise there are a couple situations...
 
Run the round back through the priming station on the press, a firm but gentle push on the handle will seat the primer, I've done it many times with loaded rounds without any issues. But you should still wear eye protection.

Also make sure the primer plunger that is under the ram of the press is tight, when they are loose they may not seat the primer in all the way.
 
For those of you advising against re-seating the primer in the press, have any of you actually had a primer go off during the initial seating process? ....or while re-seating? And please, no stories about your brother-in-laws cousin who heard about one on the interweb.

Put the cartridge back in station one and give a slow steady push on the handle - problem solved.
 
pmt said:
For those of you advising against re-seating the primer in the press, have any of you actually had a primer go off during the initial seating process? ....or while re-seating? And please, no stories about your brother-in-laws cousin who heard about one on the interweb.

Put the cartridge back in station one and give a slow steady push on the handle - problem solved.
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$50 says the answer is no, any takers?
 
09outlander said:
$50 says the answer is no, any takers?
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I'll take that challenge...

I have had several primer dets on my 1050, 3 of them in the primer seating stage, and 1 crushed primer in the primer tube as the primer slide caught only half a primer and set it off under the primer tube, causing a chain detonation of about 40 primers in the tube. Caused the plastic primer tube rod to shoot up with such velocity that it lodged into my rafters.

You can't screw around with a press that can do 1000 rpm, and I had a steep learning curve haha. Thank goodness for safety glasses and spare pairs of underwear.


To be fair though, I have never had any issue on a single stage or any other primer seating system.


So... where do I collect? ;)
 
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Kevin M. said:
I'll take that challenge...

I have had several primer dets on my 1050, 3 of them in the primer seating stage, and 1 crushed primer in the primer tube as the primer slide caught only half a primer and set it off under the primer tube, causing a chain detonation of about 40 primers in the tube. Caused the plastic primer tube rod to shoot up with such velocity that it lodged into my rafters.

You can't screw around with a press that can do 1000 rpm, and I had a steep learning curve haha. Thank goodness for safety glasses and spare pairs of underwear.
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Apples and oranges. I was talking about putting a live round back into the priming stage to reseat the primer.

Primer dets on Dillon presses are caused by parts of the priming system not being tightened fully or by pushing forward on the handle to hard.
 
09outlander said:
Apples and oranges. I was talking about putting a live round back into the priming stage to reseat the primer.

Primer dets on Dillon presses are caused by parts of the priming system not being tightened fully or by pushing forward on the handle to hard.
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I know, it was only a bit of fun to yank your chain.

Like I said (in my edit to be fair, my phone died before I could finish it) I have never had one on a primer only operation or a high round in a loaded round.

I have pushed a few high primers in loaded cartridges, and never had an issue. Go slow and wear appropriate PPE's, and if you feel anything unusual, stop and either disassemble or trash that round.


Safety is always a good idea even if it is a reasonably safe process.
 
pmt said:
For those of you advising against re-seating the primer in the press, have any of you actually had a primer go off during the initial seating process? ....or while re-seating? And please, no stories about your brother-in-laws cousin who heard about one on the interweb.

Put the cartridge back in station one and give a slow steady push on the handle - problem solved.
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I've re-seated live primers in loaded rounds several times. Mind you I also deprime live primers without first soaking them in boiling WD-40 for three weeks...............
 
Andy said:
I've re-seated live primers in loaded rounds several times. Mind you I also deprime live primers without first soaking them in boiling WD-40 for three weeks...............
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You are flirting with disaster my friend. It's going to come back and bite you hard some day. :p better you should take up :cheers: if your not going to boil the wd40.
 
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