Advisable to resize or not?

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I've messed around with my old (1915) Savage "250-3000" over the course of a few years, and have at last come up with a load that it shoots very well. In the meantime, of course, I accumulated quite a collection of unused cartridges that just didn't work for me. Got busy this morning, pulled all the bullets, and removed all the powder, leaving myself with a bunch of primed cases.

Wondering now if I should remove the live primers, and resize the cases again, or just add the powder and seat the bullets I want to use ... I think I've done that in the past a couple times with other cartridges, but curious about what general practice is.
 
If the cases chamber feely, I'd just resize the necks. Remove the decapping pin to leave the primers in place.
 
tiriaq said:
If the cases chamber feely, I'd just resize the necks. Remove the decapping pin to leave the primers in place.
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This would be my plan in your case as well. BTW, it's worked out well for me in the past. If you are only changing the bullet, using a collet type puller with a press will let you save the powder charge.
 
Thanks gentlemen ... did as suggested and the job is finished. Everything was well labelled, so I was able to save the powder and return it to the appropriate containers, then build more "good" ones. I should probably look through my collection of other cartridge left overs and do the same.
 
I hope you took the time to look into each case with a light as you emptied them. I am always amazed at how much can stay stuck/clumped in the bottom, even though the rest of it seemed to pour out easily.
 
OldDude said:
This would be my plan in your case as well. BTW, it's worked out well for me in the past. If you are only changing the bullet, using a collet type puller with a press will let you save the powder charge.
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Worked for me as well. The Hornady LnL collet bullet puller works extremely well in a case like this
 
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